(Notification) Grade-C Stenographers Limited Departmental Competitive Examination-2023 & 2024

NOTICE:

HQ-PPII03(5)/2/2023-PP_II[comp no. 7573]: The Staff Selection Commission will hold a Limited Departmental Competitive Examination on 09.05.2024 at Delhi only for making additions to the Select List of Grade “C‟ Stenographers of the following Services/Cadres:-

Sl. No.	Name of Service/Cadre/Organisation
1	Central Secretariat Stenographers Services
2	Election Commission of India Stenographers Service (ECI)
3	Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service (M/o Railways)
4	Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers Service (AFHQ)
5	Indian Foreign Service Branch (B) Stenographers (M/o External Affairs)
6	Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
7	National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)

Post Detail :

Tentative vacancies for the recruitment year, 2023

Sr. No.	Name of Service/Cadre	UR	SC	ST	PwBD	Total
1.	Central Secretariat Stenographers Services	-	-	-	-	27
2.	Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service	To be intimated later
3.	Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers Service	6	3	1	-	10
4.	ElectionCommission of India Stenographers Service	To be intimated later
5.	Indian Foreign Service Branch (B) Stenographers	3	--	-	HH-1	3
6.	Central Vigilance Commission	1	1	0	-	2

Tentative vacancies for the recruitment year, 2024

Sr. No.	Name of Service/Cadre	UR	SC	ST	PwBD	Total
1.	Central Secretariat Stenographers Services	-	-	-	-	4
2.	Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service	To be intimated later
3.	Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers Service	4	1	-	-	5
4.	Election Commission of India Stenographers Service	To be intimated later
5.	Indian Foreign Service Branch (B) Stenographers
6.	Central Vigilance Commission
7.	National Technical Research Organisation	5	0	0	0	5

Note:1:- Candidate(s) eligible for 2023 Examination are also eligible for 2024 Examination subject to fulfillment of all other eligibility conditions and provided the candidate specifically opts to be so considered.

Note:2 Such consideration of candidature would also be subject to availability of vacancies for that recruitment year i.e. 2023 or 2024 as reported by the respective Service/Cadre Controlling Authorities.

Study Notes SSC Stenographers (Grade ‘C’ & ‘D’) Examination

Education Qualification :

Name of the Service/Cadre

Crucial date for counting of approved service

Conditions of Eligibility

Central Secretariat Stenographers Service (CSSS)

For the year, 2023- 1st day of July,2023 (01.07.2023)

For the year, 2024- 1stday of July,2024 (01.07.2024)

(1) Any regularly appointed Stenographer Grade “D‟ of the Service who satisfies the following conditions shall be eligible to appear at the examination:-

(a) Length of Service:- He/She should have on the crucial date, rendered not less than six years’ approved service as Stenographer Grade “D‟.

Note:- Stenographers Grade “D‟ who are on deputation to ex-cadre post with the approval of the competent authority, and those having a lien in Stenographer Grade “D‟ of the service will be eligible to be admitted to the examination, if otherwise eligible.

Provided that if the official had been appointed to Stenographer Grade ”D‟ of the Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service on the results of the Competitive Examination, including a Limited Departmental Competitive Examination, the results of such examination should have been announced not less than six years before the crucial date and the official should have rendered not less than five years’ approved and continuous service in that grade.

(B) Computer Literacy - Any Stenographer Grade “D‟ appearing in the Limited Departmental Competitive examination for promotion to Personal Assistant shall be required to transcribe his/her shorthand notes on Computers.

Indian Foreign Service Branch(B) Stenographers

Service

For the year, 2023- 1stday of July,2023 (01.07.2023)

For the year, 2024- 1stday of July,2024 (01.07.2024)

Eligibility criteria as per IFS Branch “B‟Rules, 2017- The candidates who have rendered not less than six years approved service and undergone and successfully completed such mandatory training programme(s) as may be prescribed by the Ministry of External Affairs:

Provided that eligibility service for the above purpose shall continue to be five years approved service for persons holding Stenographer Grade ‘D’ posts on regular basis before the date of commencement of these rules.

Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers Service

For the year, 2023- 1st

day of July,2023 (01.07.2023)

For the year, 2024-1st day of July,2024 (01.07.2024)

He/ she should have on the crucial date, rendered not less than three years’ approved and continuous service in Grade –‘D’ of the Service.

Provided that if he/ she had been appointed to Grade – ‘D’ of the Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers’ Service on the result of the competitive examination including of Limited Departmental Competitive examination, the result of such examination should have been announced not less than three years (3 years) before the crucial date and the candidate should have rendered not less than 2 years approved and continuous service in that Grade.

Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service

For the year, 2023- 1st day of July, 2023 (01.07.2023)

For the year, 2024- 1st day of July, 2024 (01.07.2024)

(a) The candidate on the crucial date, should have rendered not less than six years’ approved service as Stenographer Grade “D‟.

Note: Stenographers Grade ”D‟ who are on deputation to ex-cadre posts with the approval of the competent authority, and those having lien in Stenographer Grade ”D‟ of the Service will be eligible to be admitted to the examination, if otherwise eligible.

Provided that if the official had been appointed to Stenographer Grade ”D‟ of the RBSSS Service on the results of the competitive examination, including a LDCE, the results of such examination should have been announced not less than six years before the crucial date and the officer should have rendered not less than five years’ approved and continuous service in that grade:

Provided further that eligibility service shall continue to be three years’ of approved service for officials holding Stenographer Grade ‘D’ posts on regular basis before the date of commencement of the Rules.

(b) Any Stenographer Grade ”D‟ appearing in the LDCE for promotion to Personal Assistant shall be required to transcribe shorthand notes on computers.

Election Commission of India Stenographers Service

For the year, 2023- 1st day of July,2023 (01.07.2023)

For the year, 2024- 1st

day of July,

2024 (01.07.2024)

He/she should have on the crucial date, rendered not less than three years’ approved and continuous service in Grade –‘D’ of the Service from or after the appointed day.

Provided that if he/she had been appointed to the Grade–

‘D’ of the Election Commission of India Stenographers’ Service on the result of the competitive examination including Limited Departmental Competitive Examination, the result of such examination should have been announced not less than three years (3 years) before the crucial date and the candidate should have rendered not less than 2 years approved and continuous service in the Grade.

Central Vigilance Commission

For the year, 2023- 1stday of July,2023 (01.07.2023)

For the year, 2024- 1stday of July,2024 (01.07.2024)

Five years of regular service in the grade of Stenographer Grade ‘D’ in the Commission after appointment thereto as on crucial /cut-off date.

National Technical Research Organization

For the year, 2024- 1stday of January,

2024 (01.01.2024)

Regular Stenographer of National Technical Research Organization having six years of regular service in the grade. Any Stenographer appearing in the LDCE for promotion to the Personal Assistant shall be required to transcribe his/her shorthand notes on computers.

Age Limit:

Candidate should not be more than 50 years of age for the recruitment years 2023, & 2024 on the respective crucial/cut-off date(s) intimated by their Service(s)/Cadre(s).

Where an upper age-limit not exceeding 50 years is prescribed for promotion to a Service/Cadre, it shall be relaxed by 5 years in the case of candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This, however, would not apply to posts which have arduous field duties or are meant for operational safety and to posts in Para-Military Organizations

Scheme of Examination:

The Commission has discretion to fix separate qualifying marks in any or all subjects/parts of the examination.

i) The subjects of the Computer Based Examination and the maximum marks for each subject will be as follows:-

PART-A: COMPUTER BASED EXAMINATION (200 MARKS)

Subject

No. of Questions

Max. Marks

Duration of Timings

General Awareness

100

2 Hours (2 hours and 40 minutes for the candidates

eligible for scribe as per Para- 25.1, 25.2 & 25.3

Comprehension and Knowledge of English Language

100

ii) Question paper will be of Objective Type Multiple Choice only. The questions will be set both in English & Hindi.

iii) There will be negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer in the examination.

iv) Questions relating to General awareness will be set both in Hindi and English. There will be no Question Paper in Braille for Visually Handicapped candidates.

v) Tentative Answer Keys of Computer Based Examination will be placed on the website of the Commission after the Examination. Candidates may go through the Answer Keys and submit online representations, if any, within the time limit given by the Commission, on payment of Rs. 100/- per question which is non-refundable. Representations on the matter received through any other modalities; i.e., letter, application, email, etc. will not be entertained. Representation regarding the Answer Keys will be scrutinized before finalizing the Answer Keys and the decision of the Commission in this regard will be final.

vi) There shall be no provision for re-evaluation/re-checking of scores of any stage/paper(s) of the Examination. No correspondence in this regard shall be entertained.

vii) The schedule of examination indicated in the Notice is tentative. Any change in the schedule of examination will be informed to candidates only through the website of the Commission.

PART B

SHORTHAND SKILL TEST IN HINDI OR IN ENGLISH (200 MARKS)

i) Stenography Skill Test: Unless exempted from passing the Stenography test, for the purpose of confirmation or continuance in Grade „D‟/ Grade-III of the Central Secretariat Stenographers Service/Stenographer‟s Cadre of Central Secretariat Stenographers Service (CSSS)/Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service/Indian Foreign Service (B)/Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers Service/Election Commission of India Stenographers Service, they should have passed the test on or before the date of notification of the examination.

ii) Only those candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the Computer based Examination as may be fixed by the Commission in their discretion will be called for Stenography test.

iii) Candidates must indicate their medium for taking Stenography Test at relevant column of the online application form. The medium once mentioned shall be treated as final and no requests for alteration in the medium shall ordinarily be entertained. If the requisite column of medium is left blank by any candidate, his/ her medium of stenography test shall be taken as English.

iv) The candidates who are shortlisted in the Computer Based Examination will be required to appear in the Skill Test for Stenography. The candidates will be given one dictation for 10 minutes in English or Hindi (as opted by the candidates in the online Application Form) at the speed of 100 words per minute (w.p.m.) for the post of Stenographer Grade „C‟. The matter will have to be transcribed on computer. The transcription time is as follows:.

S. No.	Post	Language of Skill Test	Time Duration (in minutes)	Time Duration (in minutes) for the candidates eligible for scribe as per Para-25.1, 25.2 & 25.3
1.	Stenographer Grade „C‟	English	40	55
2.	Stenographer Grade „C‟	Hindi	55	75

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Fee:

Fee payable: Rs 100/- (Rs one hundred only). Women candidates and candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Persons with disability (PwD) and Ex-servicemen (ESM) eligible for reservation are exempted from payment of fee.

How to Apply:

(a) Applications are required to be submitted in online mode only at the official website of SSC Headquarters . For detailed instructions, please refer to Annexure-I and Annexure-II of this official Notice.

Important Dates:

Dates for submission of online applications	09.01.2024 to 29.01.2024
Last date and time for receipt of onlineapplications	29.01.2024(2300 hours)
Schedule of Computer Based Examination (Paper-I)	09.05.2024

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