Regional/Sub-Regional Offices and their Operational Jurisdiction:

The main functions and responsibilities of Regional/Sub-Regional Offices

1. Implementing the policies and programmes of the Commission;
2. Supervising and overseeing its field operations;
3. Liaison and establishing rapport with State Govt. and their Departments for which manpower is provided by the Commission;
4. Making arrangement for impartial and smooth conduct of examination;
5. Servicing as well as presiding over interview boards/centres within their area of jurisdiction;
6. Receiving applications for the examinations;
7. Processing of applications and award of data processing contracts;
8. Issue of Admission Certificates;
9. Arrangement and booking of venues for examination;
10. Sanction of Advance for Examinations;
11. Appointment of Invigilators, Inspecting Officers and Team leaders to conduct the examinations;
12. Sending copy of Instructions, Supervisor’s Manual and cheque of Advance for examination;
13. Payment of honorarium to the Inspecting Officers, Team leaders, Supervisors and other functionaries of the examinations;
14. Settlement of advances given to the supervisors of each venue;
15. Scrutiny of dossiers after the declaration of the result of written examinations;
16. Conducting PET/Interviews for different posts whenever applicable;
17. Conducting Skill Tests (Type-writing Test and Stenography Test);
18. Nomination of the selected candidates to various user Departments;
19. Cancellation/Revival/Debarment of the candidatures of the candidates;
20. Court Cases pertaining to the various examinations filed by the candidates.
21. Conduction Workshop on Question Bank, Stenography Test etc.

Additional functions of the Sub-Regional Office, Raipur.

In addition to the general functions of the Regional/Sub-Regional Offices, the Sub-Regional Office at Raipur performs the following extension oriented work in areas of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes concentration: -

1. Publicising in the Sub-Region as extensively as possible the employment opportunities provided by examinations held by the Staff Selection Commission and by other Central Recruitment Agencies. All available media should be utilized for the purpose.

2. Establishing close contact with the Universities, Colleges and Schools in all the districts in order to persuade the authorities running the schools
to pick out students and groom them for competitive examinations and for stenography and typewriting. The institutions may be made aware of the
schemes and syllabi of these examinations and the pattern of objective questions.

3. Liaisoning with the various State Government Departments and with the offices of the Central Government located in the Sub-Region and with the District Councils and the Departments and Corporations for development of SCs/STs in order to secure their cooperation in the project for removing the deficiency in recruitment of tribal candidates.

4. Giving regular feedback to the regional offices in Calcutta/Allahabad and the Staff Selection Commission regarding publicity, coaching arrangements and the extent of response generated in the tribal student community. The feedback will also contain an analysis of the reasons for shortfalls along with suggestions for making up the shortfall.

5. Keeping in touch with the functioning of the hostels set up by Government for candidates from tribal areas and keeping the Commission in picture.

6. Establishing contact with private institutions, if any, imparting coaching in competitive examinations and in typewriting and stenography.

7. Surveying the area and reporting the need for opening of additional examination centres for holding special examination.

8. Making application forms and other literature available in the sub-region.

9. Touring of the area extensively for publicity and fact-finding and generating response.

10. Maintaining and analyzing statistics about the state of educational advancement in the tribal area in each State and the response to examination notices and rate of success.

11. Maintaining lists of local newspapers in which the advertisements of examination are to be published. Note: The jurisdiction of the Sub-Regional Office with Headquarters at Raipur will extend to the tribal belts in (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Bihar and (c) Orissa.

In addition to the functions listed above, which apply to all the three States, the Sub-Regional Officer, Raipur will assume special responsibilities with regard to the tribal belt in Madhya Pradesh. He will maintain close liaison with the all India Pre-Examination Training Centre at Raipur, sponsored by the Ministry of Home Affairs. He will be a member of the Managing Committee of the Raipur Centre, which will assume leadership role in the matters of pre-examination training for the entire State of Madhya Pradesh and for all categories of job opportunities open to members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The Managing Committee will consist of:-

1.Vice Chancellor, Ravishankar University – Chairman.
2. Director, Pre-Examination Training Centre- Vice Chairman.
3. Commissioner, Raipur – Member.
4. Director, Tribal Welfare, M.P., Bhopal – Member.
5. Head of the Regional Centre Staff Selection Commission, Raipur-Member.
6. Zonal Director, BCW, Bhopal – Member
7. Deputy Director, Pre-Examination Training Centre-Member Secretary.

The head of the Sub-Regional Office of the Staff Selection Commission, Raipur, will also be an ex-officio Deputy Director of the Pre-Examination Training Centre.

Note: The jurisdiction of the extension work was extended to Andhra Pradesh also vide SSC Order No.A-46011/1/82-Ad dated 14.12.1982.