The Staff Selection Commission will hold a competitive examination for recruitment to the Group C posts viz. Lower Divisional Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant, and Data Entry Operators for various Ministries/ Departments/ Offices of the Government of India and various Constitutional Bodies/ Statutory Bodies/ Tribunals, etc.. The details of the examination are as under 

The Examination is being held for multiple posts for various Ministries/ Departments/ Offices. Preference for various posts and departments will be taken from the  candidates through Online Option Form on the website of the Commission before declaration of final result. A candidate will not be considered for a Post and Ministry/ Department/ Organization, if he has not indicated his preference for it. Options once submitted shall be treated as final and will not be changed subsequently under any circumstances. Therefore, candidates must be careful in exercise of such options.

Candidates, who do not submit their post preference(s) on the website of the Commission within the stipulated time, will not be considered for any post in the  Final Result. Such candidates shall not be provided with another opportunity to exercise preference for posts and will be solely responsible for the same.  Any grievance received in this regard in any form like Post, Fax, Email, by hand, etc. shall not be entertained by the Commission and will be summarily rejected.


Reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward  Classes (OBC), Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), Ex-Servicemen (ESM) and Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) candidates for all the categories of

posts/services, wherever applicable and admissible, would be as determined and  communicated by the Indenting Ministries/ Departments/ Offices/ Cadres, as per  extant Government Orders.

The Commission makes the selection of candidates in accordance with the vacancies  reported by the Indenting Departments/ Organizations for various posts. The  Commission does not have any role in deciding the number of vacancies of any  Indenting Department/ Organization. Implementation of reservation policy,  maintaining reservation roster, earmarking of vacancies for different categories and  identification of suitability of posts for suitable for various benchmark disabilities,  are under the domain of the Indenting Departments/ Organizations.

 The Commission will consider the suitability of posts for various benchmark  disabilities under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016 

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of  Social Justice and Empowerment or as identified and intimated by the Indenting  Departments/ Organizations for specific posts, as detailed below


Admission to the Examination:

All candidates who register themselves in response to this advertisement by the closing date and time and whose applications are found to be in order and are provisionally accepted by the Commission as per the terms and conditions of this Notice of Examination will be assigned Roll numbers and issued Admission Certificates (AC) by the Regional Offices of the Commission for appearing in the  Computer Based Examination. Subsequently, qualified candidates will be issued Admission Certificates for the next stages of the Examination.

The Commission will not undertake detailed scrutiny of applications for the eligibility and other aspects at the time of written examination and, therefore, candidature will  be accepted only provisionally. Candidates must go through the requirements of  educational qualification, experience, age, physical and medical standards etc. and  satisfy themselves that they are eligible for the post(s). The certificates/documents in support of their Educational Qualifications and Caste/Category, etc. shall be sought at the time of Document Verification by the Indenting User Departments/Organizations. Physical and medical standards will be ascertained by the User Departments after the declaration of result. Candidates may also note that they would be required to submit their certificates/ documents of EQs/ caste/ category, etc. as and when sought by the User Department/ Organization. After scrutiny of the certificates/ documents of EQs/ caste/ category, etc., if any claim made in the application is not substantiated by certificates/ documents, the candidature of candidate will be cancelled.

 Admission Certificates for all stages of examination will be issued online on the websites of concerned Regional Office of the Commission. Candidates are therefore advised to regularly visit the websites of the Commission Headquarters (i.e. https://ssc.gov.in) and Regional Office concerned of the Commission under whose jurisdiction the examination centres opted by the candidate are located (detail at para-

 Information about the Examination indicating the time table and City/ Centre of examination for the candidates will be uploaded on the websites of the Regional Office concerned of the Commission about two weeks before the date of examination. If any candidate does not find his detail on the website of the Commission, one week before the date of examination, he must immediately contact the Regional Office concerned of the Commission with proof of having submitted his application. Failure  to do so will deprive him of any claim for consideration.

Candidate must write Registration Number, Roll Number, registered Email-ID and Mobile Number along with name, date of birth and name of the examination, while  addressing any communication to the Commission. Communication from the candidate not furnishing these particulars shall not be entertained.

Facility to download Admission Certificates will be made available 3-7 days before the examination on the website of Regional Office concerned. Candidate must bring  printout of the Admission Certificate to the Examination Hall.

In addition to the Admission Certificate, it is mandatory to carry at least two passport  size recent colour photographs, Original valid Photo-ID proof having the Date of  Birth as printed on the Admission Certificate,such as:

1 Aadhaar Card/ Printout of E-Aadhaar,

2 Voter’s ID Card,

3 Driving License,

4 PAN Card,

5 Passport,

6 ID Card issued by University/ College/ School,

7 Employer ID Card (Govt./ PSU),

8 Ex-serviceman Discharge Book issued by Ministry of Defence.

9 Any other photo bearing valid ID card issued by the Central/ State Government.


If Photo Identity Card does not have the date of birth printed on it then the candidate must carry an additional original document (e.g. Matriculation Certificate, Marks Sheet issued only by CBSE/ ICSE/ State Boards; Birth Certificate, Category Certificate) in proof of their date of birth. In case of mismatch in the date of birth mentioned in the Admission Certificate and photo ID/ Certificate brought in support of date of birth, the candidate will not  be allowed to appear in the examination.