Staff Selection Commission


Staff Selection Commission is an organisation under the Government of India to recruit staff for various posts in the various ministries and departments of the government of India and in subordinate offices and agencies.
This commission is an attached office of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) which consists of chairman, two members and a secretary-cum-controller of examinations. His post is equivalent to the level of additional secretary to the government of India.
The SSC decided to conduct the Multi-Tasking Staff examination in 13 Indian languages, which are Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Konkani, Meitei, Marathi, Odia and Punjabi, in addition to Hindi and English, out of the 22 official languages of the Indian Republic, for the first time in January 2023.
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History

The estimates committee in the parliament recommended the setting up of a Service Selection Commission in its 47th report for conducting examinations to recruit lower categories of posts. Later, in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, on 4 November 1975 government of India constituted a commission called Subordinate Service Commission. On 26 September 1977, the Subordinate Services Commission was renamed as Staff Selection Commission. The functions of the Staff Selection Commission were redefined by the government of India through Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and on 21 May 1999. Then the new constitution and functions of the Staff Selection Commission came into effect from 1 June 1999. Every year conducts the Combined Graduate Level Examination for recruiting non-gazetted officers to various government jobs.

Personnel

The commission is headed by a Chairman and two members after him. Besides, there are one Secretary, one Director, one Deputy Secretary, two Joint Directors, nine Under Secretaries, four Deputy Directors, one Finance & Budget Officer, one Assistant Director , 24 Section Officers and more than 183 supporting officers/staff are at the Headquarters for discharging the duties and responsibilities of the Commission

List of Chairmen

The following is the list of Chairmen of the Staff Selection Commission since its inception in 1976.
No.NameFromTo
1Shri Saiyid Hamid1 July 197616 June 1980
2Smt. Inderjit Kaur10 July 198010 July 1985
3Shri S.C. Mittal23 July 198523 July 1990
4Shri S.N. Bajpe23 July 199012 July 1994
5Shri B. Sankaran28 November 19949 November 1998
6Shri K.M. Lal11 January 199921 June 2002
7Shri B.K. Misra24 June 200219 October 2004
8Shri Prakash Chander*20 December 200423 November 2005
9Shri I.M.G. Khan**28 November 200512 January 2006
10Shri Brahm Dutt**13 January 200630 October 2006
11Dr. C. T. Misra30 October 200627 October 2008
12Smt. Vibha Puri Das**29 October 200823 April 2009
13Shri N.K. Raghupathy24 April 20092 March 2013
14Shri A. Bhattacharyya20 March 20132 December 2015
15Shri Ashim Khurana9 December 201530 September 2019
16Smt. Sujata Chaturvedi**4 October 201923 October 2019
17Shri Braj Raj Sharma24 October 20191 May 2020
18Smt. Sujata Chaturvedi**23 May 202030 June 2021
19Smt. Deepti Umashankar**1 July 202111 February 2022
20Shri S. Kishore10 February 202230 April 2024
21Shri Pradeep Singh Khorla**1 May 202429 May 2024
22Shri Rakesh Ranjan29 May 2024incumbent

Notes: * Acting Chairman; ** Additional Charge

Headquarters

Staff Selection Commission has its headquarters located at CGO Complex in New Delhi. At present, it has seven Regional offices at Prayagraj, Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi. It also has two Sub-regional offices at Raipur and Chandigarh.
Each regional office is headed by a Regional Director and each Sub-Regional office is headed by a Deputy Director.

Functions

The Function of the commission are as follows:
  1. To make Recruitment to all Group “B” Posts in the various Ministries/Departments of the Govt. of India and their Attached and Subordinate Offices which are in the pay scales the maximum of which is Rs.10,500 or below and all non-technical Group “C” posts in the various Ministries/Departments of the Govt. of India and their Attached and Subordinate Offices, except those posts which are specifically exempt from the purview of the Staff Selection Commission.
  2. To conduct examinations and/or interviews, whenever required for recruitment to the posts within its purview. The examinations would be held as far as possible at different centres and successful candidates posted, to the extent possible, to their home State/Region.
  3. To hold Open Competitive Examinations for recruitment to the posts of:
  4. #Lower Division Clerks in the various Ministries/Departments, Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India
  5. #Grade “C” and Grade ‘D” Stenographers
  6. #Assistants in the various Ministries/Departments including Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India
  7. #Inspectors of Central Excise in different Collectorates of Central Excise, Inspectors of Income-Tax in different charges of the Commissioners of Income-Tax, Preventive Officers and Examiners in different Custom Houses, Assistant Enforcement Officers in Directorate of Enforcement;
  8. #Sub-Inspectors in, Central Bureau of Investigation and Central Police Organisations;
  9. #Divisional Accountants, Auditors and Accountants under the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India and other Accounts Departments and Upper Division Clerks in Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India.
  10. #Junior Engineer in CPWD
  11. #Statistical Investigators, Grade IV of Subordinate Statistical Service
  12. #Tax Assistant
  13. #Section Officers in various Departments
  14. The Commission also holds Departmental Examination for promotion from:
  15. #Group “D” to Lower Division Clerk Grade
  16. #Lower Divisional Clerks to Upper Divisional Clerks
  17. #Stenographers Grade “D” to Stenographers Grade “C
  18. The Commission prepares schemes for recruitment to all Group “B” posts which are in the pay scale of Rs 9300 to 34800 with a grade pay of Rs 42000 or below and Group “C” non-technical posts
  19. The Commission conducts examinations/selections for recruitment to all Group “B” posts which are in the pay scales the maximum of which is Rs.10, 500 or below and all Group “C” non-technical posts
  20. The Commission performs such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the Central Govt. from time to time.

Exams conducted by Staff Selection Commission

Staff Selection Commission currently functions as a subordinate office of DOPT and is mainly engaged in conducting competitive exams for recruitment to various posts in the Staff Selection Commission departments, organizations. In the previous years, Staff Selection Commission has conducted various exams as given below