Executive Summary

1. The Staff Selection Commission has been mandated with recruitment of group 'C' (non-technical) and group 'B' (non-gazetted – both technical and non-technical) posts in various Ministries/Departments of Government of India and their Attached and Subordinate offices except those for which recruitment is made by the Railway Recruitment Board and Industrial Establishments.

2. The task of conducting Departmental Examinations for promotion from (i) Group 'D'/ MTS(NT) to LDC grade, (ii) LDC grade to UDC grade and (iii) Stenographer grade 'D' to Stenographer grade 'C' has been entrusted to Staff Selection Commission. The Commission also holds periodical typewriting tests in English and Hindi.

3. The Staff Selection Commission has a nationwide network of nine Regional / SubRegional Offices. Seven Regional Offices are located at Allahabad, Bengaluru,Chennai, Guwahati, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi and two Sub-Regional Offices at Chandigarh and Raipur. The Regional/Sub-Regional Offices implement the policies and programmes of the Staff Selection Commission which include holding of examinations at various centres of the country, with the help of the State government authorities, and conducting interviews of candidates in regions.

4. Ten All India Open Examinations and three Departmental Examinations were conducted by the Commission during the year 2011-12. In addition selections were made through Interview for certain categories of posts, the details of which are given in Chapter-V.

5. A total of 8678125 candidates applied for 10 All India Open Examinations. The number of candidates who applied for Selection Posts and for Departmental Examinations during the year 2011-12 was 3,36,499 and 1001 respectively

6. The Commission organized its major examinations through a network of 106 examination centres and 1694 examination venues

7. The Commission selected 83591 candidates for appointment to various posts through all India open Examinations and 882 candidates against selection posts during the year 2011-12.

8. In compliance of various provisions of the Official Language Act, 1963 and Official Language Rules, 1976, the Commission continued to emphasize increase in use of Hindi in official work during the year under report.

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Courtesy : Staff Selection Commission