SSC to fill over 73K posts, max vacancies in min of home affairs

Prayagraj: In a good news for thousands of youths preparing for jobs in the Central government departments, there will be 73,333 vacancies to compete for in the recruitment calendar of the Saff Selection Commission (SSC).
As per the details of vacancies received by the commission from the Central ministries and departments for recruitment to Group C and D posts in various departments of the Central government, the maximum number of posts— 28,825 are in the departments under the ministry of home affairs. Likewise, Delhi Police will recruit on 7,550 posts. However, the number of posts may increase or decrease.
In a letter sent by Gautam Kumar, under secretary, ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions to the SSC chairman and all the ministries on September 30, suggestions have been made to fill up 73,333 vacant posts in the mission recruitment mode at the earliest.
The commission has issued advertisements for most of the recruitments of the 2022 calendar. Application process for the multi-tasking staff (civilian) 2022 recruitment in Delhi police started from October 7 while online applications for Combined Higher Secondary Level Exam-2022 and constable general duty (GD) in Central Armed Police Force will be taken from November 5 and for SSF and rifleman GD recruitment 2022 in Assam Rifles, the process would start from December 10 this year.
There would be 24,605 vacancies of constable GD, 20,814 in combined graduate level exam (CGLE), 6,433 in constable (executive) in Delhi Police, 4,682 multi-tasking staff (MTS), 4,300 sub-inspector in central police organization and 2,960 vacancies in combined higher secondary level exam (CHSL).
According to the SSC officials, the youths of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have the highest competition for government jobs and when it comes to Central government jobs, the competition turns into passion. This is the reason that most of the applicants in the SSC recruitment which recruit Group C and D in various departments of the Central government, hail from UP and Bihar. The selection process is done in both these states through the central zone office of SSC located in Prayagraj.
For example, 39,33,119 candidates from across the country had applied for MTS 2021 recruitment, one of the biggest recruitment of SSC. Remarkably, out of these, 13,79,957 (35.08%) were from UP and Bihar only. Similarly, in constable (general duty) recruitment 2021, out of 71,74,579 applicants from across the country, 23,29,591 (32.47%) or one-third of the applicants were from UP and Bihar. The minimum qualification for MTS and constable GD recruitment is 10th pass. In the online exam for the recruitment of head constable (ministerial)-2022 in Delhi Police, out of 23,58,535 applicants, 647882 (27.46 %) are from these two states of the Hindi belt.