SSC to fill 1.4 Lakhs Central Govt Job vacancies by March 2021

The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) in its latest press release has announced that it will fill total 1.4 lakh vacancies in Group-B and -C posts available in various ministries/departments/offices of Government of India by March 21. According to the press release, both gazetted and non-gazetted posts apart from the non-technical ones will be filled in a phased manner.

There were nearly seven lakh vacant posts in different central government departments as on March 1 last year, the Rajya Sabha was informed. Of the total of 6,83, 823 vacant posts, a total of 5,74,289 are in Group C, 89,638 in Group B and 19,896 in Group A category, as on March 1, 2018, according to a data given in a written reply by Minister of State for Personnel, Jitendra Singh.

Based on the vacancies reported by the user departments, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has started recruitment process to fill up 1,05,338 posts during the year 2019-2020.

During 2017-18, centralized employment notifications (CENs) for 1,27,573 combined vacancies of various Group C and Level-1 posts were notified by the ministry of railways and railway recruitment boards (RRBs), for new and future vacancies to arise in two years’ time, Singh said.

Another five CENs covering 1,56,138 vacancies of various Group C and Level-1 posts were also issued in 2018-19, the minister said.

The department of posts have also conducted examination and notified to fill up 19,522 vacancies, other than those to be filled up through SSC, in various grades, he said.

“Thus, recruitment process to fill up 4,08,591 vacancies by the SSC, RRBs and department of posts, is in progress,” Singh said.

In the current financial year, as on February 28, 2020, SSC has already recommended 14,611 candidates for appointment in different posts in the Government of India. Till June 2020, the commission is likely to declare SSC results for another 85,000 posts available in various ministries/departments/offices of Government of India.