SSC Stenographer Eligibility

SSC Stenographer Eligibility Details: 

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Stenographers (Grade C&D) Examination’s eligibility details are given below…..

Eligibility Criteria:
A. Nationality / Citizenship: A candidate must be either:
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January,1962, with the
intention of permanently settling in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (Formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

B.Age Limit: 

(a) For Stenographer Grade C: 18 to 30 years as on 01-01-2020

(b) For Stenographer Grade D: 18 to 27 years as on 01-01-2020

Age Limit Relaxation is given below:

Sl No	Category	Age-Relaxation permissible beyond the Upper age limit
01	SC/ ST	05 years
02	OBC	03 years
03	PwD (Unreserved)	10 years
04	PwD (OBC)	13 years
05	PwD (SC/ ST)	15 years
06	Ex-Servicemen (ESM)	03 years after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on closing date of receipt of online application
07	Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1st January 1980 to 31st December 1989	05 years
08	Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof	03 years
09	Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (SC/ ST)	08 years
Permissible Relaxation in upper age limit for Group ‘C’ Posts only
10	Central Govt. Civilian Employees: Who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of online applications	Up to 40 years of age
11	Central Govt. Civilian Employees: Who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of online applications. (SC/ ST)	Up to 45 years of age
12	Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried	Up to 35 years of age
13	Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried (SC/ ST )	Up to 40 years of age
14	Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces	Up to 45 years of age
15	Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces (SC/ ST)	Up to 50 years of age
16	Retrenched census employees of the office of Registrar General of India (They will be considered only for offices under RGI in their order of merit and subject to availability of vacancies )	3 years plus length of service rendered by them in connection with census, before retrenchment and   weightage of past service

C. Educational Qualification: Candidates must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent from a recognised Board or University.

All candidates who are declared qualified by the Commission for Document Verification will be required to produce the relevant Certificates such as Mark sheets, Provisional Certificates etc. for completion of Intermediate/ Higher Secondary/ 10+2/ Senior Secondary in original as proof of having acquired the minimum educational qualification on or before 01-01-2019, failing which the candidature of such candidates will be cancelled by the Commission. The candidates who are able to prove, by documentary evidence, that the result of the qualifying examination was declared on or before the cut-off date and he/ she has been declared passed, will also be considered to meet the educational qualification.

Order/ letter in respect of equivalent Educational Qualifications will require to be produced by the candidates at the time of Document Verification or as and when required by the Commission, 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 as per the requirement of the Notice of examination.

Note-I: As per Ministry of Human Resource Development Notification dated 10.6.2015 published in Gazette of India all the degrees/ diplomas /certificates including 8 technical education degree/ diploma awarded through Open and Distance Learning mode of education by the Universities established by an Act of Parliament or State Legislature, Institutions Deemed to be Universities under Section 3 of the University Grant Commission Act 1956 and Institutions of National Importance declared under an Act of Parliament stand automatically recognized for the purpose of employment to posts and services under the Central Government provided they have been approved by the Distance Education Bureau, University Grant Commission.