1.3 lakh job-seekers’ future at stake? Many take to social media route to express anger against SSC chairman, officials

ON FRIDAY, social media platforms saw an unusual hashtag, #saveSSCcgle2013. It’s about CGLE 2013 examination conducted by Staff Selection Commission (SSC) and meant for graduates aspiring to be Central secretariat assistants, income-tax inspectors, excise inspectors etc. Many of 1.3 lakh applicants who crossed the tier-I of the written examination have now aired their anger against SCC officials including its chairman and IAS officer…

GRE-Style Screening: Can the same test work for IAS, IPS and clerks?

Woh! The government’s recruiting agency Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has continued to hog the limelight. After its northern regional office becoming the first ever ISO-9001:2008 certified government recruitment agency, the SSC has now proposed introduction of a GRE-style walk-in screening test which will be the same for IAS aspirants or those applying for a clerk’s job.

The candidates will be able to take this test as many times as they want, but their score would be valid for two years, according to the proposal. If the government gives its nod, the same test will determine who should apply for a banker’s job and who for IAS, IPS and other Group A and B officers. According to SSC chairman NK Raghupathy, as reported in a section of media, UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) need not even conduct the civil services (preliminary) aptitude test, and some candidates qualifying the SSC-conducted screening test can appear for the civil services mains examinations straight.

As each candidate applies for various jobs and appears in different screening tests, this new system is expected to take away the unnecessary pressure on the recruitment system.

The scores of the proposed system could be utilized for screening candidates for jobs in government departments, PSUs, banks and autonomous agencies etc.

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Action and Appointments

a) Rashmi Verma, a 1982 batch Bihar cadre IAS, presently working as joint secretary (Missile Systems), in the department of defence production has been appointed as joint secretary (Land Systems) in the same department.

b) PK Mishra, a 1984 batch IA and AS, presently working as additional financial adviser (joint secretary level) in the ministry of defence (defence Finance) has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of defence production.

c) Harpreet Singh, a 1992 batch Indian Postal Service officer has been appointed as director in the department of higher education under the ministry of human resources development.

SSC's north office turns first ever ISO-9001 certified govt recruiting body

THE northern regional office of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has become the first ever ISO-9001:2008 certified recruiting agency in the government sector in the country. The certification was conferred on SSC by the British Certification Inc in New Delhi on Thursday. The SCC which always plays the second fiddle to UPSC in recruitment process of the government, has come out first in regard to getting ISO-9001 certificates.

According to a cabinet secretary-headed meeting that took place on February 19, 2011, it was proposed that 62 government ministries or departments would have to procure ISO-9001 certifications compulsorily during the financial year of 2011-12. The key ministries such as PMO, finance, home, defence and external affairs, which are exempted from participating in target-based RFD (Results Framework Documents) are however exempted from mandatorily procuring ISO-9001 certificates.

With ISO-9001:2008 certificates, the SCC will now help in creating customer satisfaction for candidates and user departments. It will also help in optimal use of material and manpower.

The SSC is a premier organisation for recruitment of Group B Non-Gazetted and Group C Non-technical staff of various Central government ministries or departments all over the country. During 2010-11, the Northern Region has handled 15.60 lakhs job applicants and offered job opportunities to 7670 of them till March 15, 2011.

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