Government of India,
Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances & Pensions,
Department of Personnel and Training,
Staff Selection Commission,
Block No. 12, CGO Complex, Lodhi
Road, New Delhi - 110003.

F. No. 3/7/2021-P&P-I (Vol.-1):

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit: https://ssc.nic.in/SSCFileServer/PortalManagement/UploadedFiles/Notice_c...

Last date and time for receipt of online applications: 07.03.2022

Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Level Examination, 2021

The Staff Selection Commission will hold a competitive examination for recruitment to the posts of Lower Divisional Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant, Postal Assistant/ Sorting 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:

1. Data Entry Operator
Low Vision can apply
Pay Level-4(Rs. 25,500-81,100) and Level-5(Rs. 29,200-92,300).
Qualification:  12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.

2. Lower Division Clerk (LDC) /Junior Secretarial Assistant (JSA)
Visually Impaired can apply
Pay Level-2 (Rs. 19,900-63,200).
Qualification: Candidates must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.

3. Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant
Low Vision can apply
Pay Level-4(Rs. 25,500-81,100).
Qualification: Candidates must have
passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University

Age Limit: 18-27 years

Age  Relaxation: 10 years for PwD candidates.

Candidates who wish to be considered against reserved vacancies or seek agerelaxation must submit requisite certificate from the competent authority, in the prescribed format when such certificates are sought by Regional Offices concerned at the time of Skill Test/ Document Verification. Otherwise, their claim for SC/ ST/
OBC/ EWS/ PwD/ ESM category will not be entertained and their candidature/application will be considered under Unreserved (UR)/ relevant category. The formats of the certificates are annexed with the Notice of this Examination. The certificate of disability issued under the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996) will also be valid. Certificates in any other format are liable to be rejected

Provision of Compensatory Time and assistance of scribe:

In case of persons with benchmark disabilities in the category of blindness, locomotor disability (both arms affected-BA) and cerebral palsy, the facility of scribe is provided, if desired by the candidate. 

In case of remaining categories of persons with benchmark disabilities, the provision of scribe will be provided on production of a certificate at the time of examination to the effect that the person concerned has physical limitation to write, and scribe is essential to write examination on his behalf, from the Chief Medical Officer/ Civil Surgeon/ Medical Superintendent of a Government health care institution as per proforma at Annexure-I.

The facility of scribes/ passage reader will be provided to the PwD candidates only if he has opted for the same in the online application form.

The candidate will have the discretion of opting for his own scribe or the facility of scribe provided by the Commission. Appropriate choice in this regard will have to be given by the candidate in the online application form.

In case a candidate opts for own scribe, the qualification of the scribe should be one step below the qualification of the candidate taking the examination. The candidates with benchmark disabilities opting for own scribe shall be required to submit details of the own scribe at the time of examination as per proforma at Annexure-II. In addition, the scribe has to produce a valid ID proof (as per list given at Para-15.7) in original at the time of examination. A photocopy of the ID proof of the scribe signed by the candidate as well as the scribe will be submitted along with the proforma at Annexure-II. If subsequently it is found that the qualification of the scribe is not as declared by the candidate, then the candidate shall forfeit his right to the post and claims relating thereto.

Own scribe should not be a candidate of this examination. If a candidate is detected as assisting another PwD candidate as scribe in this examination, then the candidatures of both the candidates will be cancelled.

A compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour of examination will be provided to the persons who are allowed scribe as per Para 8.1 and 8.2 above. 

The candidates referred at Para 8.1 and 8.2 above, who are eligible for scribe but do not avail the facility of scribes will also be given compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour of examination.

No attendant other than the scribe for eligible candidates will be allowed inside the examination hall.

One eyed candidates and partially blind candidates who are able to read the normal Question Paper set with or without magnifying glass and who wish to write/ indicate the answer with the help of magnifying glass will be allowed to use the same in the Examination Hall and will not be entitled to a Scribe. Such candidates will have to bring their own magnifying glass to the Examination Hall.

The PwD candidates who have availed the facility of Scribes/ Passage Reader and/ or compensatory time must produce relevant documents for the eligibility of scribe/compensatory time at the time of Document Verification. Failure to produce such supporting documents will lead to cancellation of their candidature for the examination.

How to apply: Applications must be submitted in only online mode at the website of SSC Headquarter i.e. https://ssc.nic.in.

In the online Application Form, candidates are required to upload the scanned colour passport size photograph in JPEGs format (20 KB to 50 KB). The photograph should not be more than three months old from the date of publication of the Notice of Examination. Image dimension of the photograph should be about 3.5 cm (width) x 4.5 cm (height). The photograph should be without cap, spectacles and both ears should be visible.

Women candidates and candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Ex-servicemen (ESM) eligible for reservation are exempted from payment of fee.

A candidate must indicate the Centre(s) in the online Application Form in which he desires to take the examination.

Examination Centres and Centre Code:

1. Bhagalpur(3201), Muzaffarpur(3205), Patna(3206), Purnea (3209), Agra(3001), Bareilly (3005), Gorakhpur (3007), Jhansi (3008), Kanpur(3009), Lucknow(3010), Meerut(3011), Prayagraj(3003), Varanasi(3013) 

SSC Region and States/ UTs under the jurisdiction of the Region: Central Region (CR)/Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

2. Port Blair (4802), Bokaro(4201), Hazaribagh(4204), Jamshedpur(4207), Ranchi(4205), Balasore(Odisha) (4601), Berhampore(Odisha) (4602), Bhubaneswar(4604), Cuttack(4605), Dhenkenal(4611), Rourkela(4610),
Sambalpur(4609), Gangtok(4001), Asansol(4417), Burdwan(4404), Durgapur(4426), Kalyani(4419),
Kolkata(4410), Siliguri(4415)

Eastern Region (ER)/Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim and West Bengal

3. Kavaratti(9401), Belagavi (9002), Bengaluru (9001), Hubballi (9011), Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) (9005), Mangaluru (9008), Mysuru (9009), Shivamogga (9010), Udupi (9012). Ernakulam (9213), Kannur (9202), Kollam (9210), Kottayam (9205), Kozhikode (9206), Thrissur (9212), Thiruvananthapuram (9211).
Region: Karnataka, Kerala Region (KKR)/Lakshadweep, Karnataka and Kerala

4. Bhopal (6001), Gwalior(6005), Indore (6006), Jabalpur (6007), Satna (6014), Sagar (6015), Ujjain (6016), Bilaspur (6202), Raipur (6204), Durg-Bhilai (6205)

Region: Madhya Pradesh Region (MPR)/Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh

5. Itanagar(5001), Dibrugarh(5102), Guwahati(Dispur)(5105), Jorhat(5107), Silchar(5111), Churachandpur (5502), Imphal(5501), Ukhrul(5503), Shillong(5401), Aizwal(5701), Dimapur (5301), Kohima(5302), Agartala(5601),

North Eastern Region (NER)/Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura.

6. Dehradun(2002), Haldwani(2003), Haridwar(2005), Roorkee(2006), Delhi(2201), Ajmer(2401), Alwar(2402),
Bikaner(2404), Jaipur(2405), Jodhpur(2406), Kota(2407), Sriganganagar(2408), Udaipur(2409),
Sikar(2411).

Northern Region (NR)/ Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand

7. Chandigarh/ Mohali(1601), Ambala(1801), Hamirpur(1202), Shimla(1203), Jammu(1004), Samba(1010), Srinagar(J&K)(1007), Leh(1005), Amritsar(1404), Jalandhar(1402), Ludhiana(1405), Patiala(1403)

Region: North Western Region (NWR)/Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir,
Ladakh and Punjab

8. Chirala(8011), Cuddapah(8013), Guntur(8001), Kakinada (8009), Kurnool(8003), Nellore (8010),
Rajahmundry(8004), Tirupati(8006), Vizianagaram(8012), Vijayawada(8008), Vishakhapatnam(8007), Puducherry(8401), Chennai(8201), Coimbatore(8202), Krishnagiri(8209), Madurai(8204), Salem(8205), Tiruchirapalli(8206), Tirunelveli(8207), Vellore (8208), Hyderabad(8601), Karimnagar (8604), Warangal(8603)

Region: Southern Region (SR)/Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

9. Panaji(7801), Ahmedabad(7001), Anand(7011), Gandhinagar(7012), Mehsana(7013), Rajkot(7006),
Surat(7007), Vadodara(7002), Amravati(7201), Aurangabad(7202), Jalgaon(7214),  Kolhapur (7203), Mumbai(7204), Nagpur(7205), Nanded (7206), Nashik(7207), Pune(7208)

Region: Western Region(WR)/Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra

A candidate has to give option for three centres, in the order of priority, within the same region. No request for change of Centre will be considered later under any circumstances. Hence, the candidates should select the centers, carefully and indicate the same correctly in their applications.

The Commission will endeavour to accommodate the candidates in centers opted by them. However, the Commission reserves the right to cancel any Centre and ask the candidates of that centre to appear from another centre. Commission also reserves the right to divert candidates of any centre to some other Centre to take the examination.

The examination will consist of Computer Based Examination (Tier-I), Descriptive Paper (Tier-II) and Skill Test/ Typing Test (Tier-III). 

In the question papers, wherever necessary, the metric systems of weights and measures will be used.

The dates of examinations indicated in the Notice are tentative. Any change in the schedule of examinations will be informed to candidates only through the website of the Commission.

For VH candidates of 40% and above visual disability, there will be no component of Maps/ Graphs/ Diagrams/ Statistical Data in the General Intelligence and Quantitative Aptitude parts.

The paper will have to be written either in Hindi or in English. Part paper written in Hindi and Part in English will be awarded zero marks. 

Persons with Disabilities candidates who claim to be permanently unfit to take the Typing Test because of a physical disability may, with the prior approval of the Commission, be exempted from the requirement of appearing and qualifying at such test, provided such a candidate submits a Certificate in the prescribed format (Annexure-XIV) to the Commission from the competent Medical Authority, i.e., the Civil Surgeon of a
Government Health Care Institution declaring him to be permanently unfit for the Typing Test because of a physical disability. In addition, such candidates must substantiate their claim by furnishing the relevant Medical Certificate in the prescribed format as per Annexure-XI to Annexure-XIII of the Notice of Examination, as applicable, at the time of Typing Test. Otherwise their claim for seeking exemption from Typing Test will not be
entertained by the Commission. 

PwD candidates availing the facility of scribes as per Para 8 shall also be required to carry required Medical Certificate/ Undertaking/ Photocopy of the Scribe’s Photo ID Proof, as specified therein. Candidates without these documents will not be allowed to appear in the examination.

Candidates have to bring two passport size recent colour photographs and one original valid Photo ID Proof as listed at Para 15.7 above while appearing for the Document Verification

Candidates will have to submit copies of various documents like:

Matriculation/ Secondary Certificate.

Educational Qualification Certificate.
Order/ letter in respect of equivalent Educational Qualifications claimed, indicating the Authority (with number and date) under which it has been so treated, in respect of equivalent clause in Essential Qualifications, if a candidate is claiming a particular qualification as equivalent qualification.

Caste/ Category Certificate, if belongs to reserved categories.

Persons with Disabilities Certificate in the required format, if applicable.

Candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBC, EWS, ESM and PwD categories may be qualified by applying relaxed standards if the Commission is of the opinion that sufficient numbers of candidates of these categories are not likely to be available in order to fill up the vacancies reserved for these categories.

Final selection and allocation of Ministries/ Departments/ Offices to the candidates qualified in the Document Verification will be made on the basis of their performance in Tier-I + Tier-II Examinations and the preference of Posts/ Departments confirmed by them at the time of Document Verification