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✔️ Lower Divisional Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant, and Data Entry Operators
IMPORTANT DATES
Dates for submission of online applications 23.06.2025 to 18.07.2025
Last date and time for receipt of online
applications 18.07.2025 (23:00)
Last date and time for making online fee payment 19.07.2025 (23:00)
Dates of ‘Window for Application Form
Correction’ and online payment of Correction
Charges.
23.07.2025 to 24.07.2025 (23:00)
Schedule of Tier-I (Computer Based Examination) 08.09.2025 to 18.09.2025
Schedule of Tier-II (Computer Based Examination) February-March 2025
SALARY
Lower Division Clerk (LDC)/ Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA): Pay Level-2 (Rs. 19,900-63,200).
Data Entry Operator (DEO): Pay Level-4(Rs. 25,500-81,100) and Level-5(Rs. 29,200-92,300).
Data Entry Operator, Grade ‘A’: Pay Level-4(Rs. 25,500-81,100).
VACANCY
There are approx. 3131 tentative vacancies. However, firm
number of vacancies will be determined in due course. Updated vacancies, if any,
along with post-wise & category-wise vacancies will be made available on the
website of the Commission (https://ssc.gov.in> Candidate’s Corner> Tentative
Vacancy) in due course. Candidates may note that State-wise/ Zone-wise vacancies
are not collected by the Commission. Candidates are advised to approach the
concerned User Departments for information pertaining to zone-wise/state-wise
vacancies.
AGE LIMIT
Age limit
for the posts is 18-27 years i.e. Candidates born not before 02-01-1999 and not later
than 01-01-2008 are eligible to apply.
The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxable:
(a) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
(b) up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates;
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
For Data Entry Operator (DEO)/ DEO Grade ‘A’ in the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Ministry of Culture: 12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.
For LDC/ JSA and DEO/ DEO Grade ‘A’ (except DEOs in Department/ Ministry mentioned at Para 8.1 above): Candidates must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.
The candidates who have appeared in their 12th Standard or equivalent examination can also apply, however they must possess Essential qualification on or before the cutoff date i.e. 01-08-2025
EXAM CENTERS IN KERALA
Ernakulam (9213), Kollam (9210),
Kottayam (9205), Kozhikode (9206),
Thrissur (9212), Thiruvananthapuram
(9211), Kannur (9202)
LANGUAGES FOR EXAMINATION
- Hindi
- English
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Kannada
- Konkani
- Malayalam
- Manipuri (also Meitei or Meithei)
- Marathi
- Odiya
- Punjabi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Urdu
Note: Candidates are advised to be careful in exercising this option of indicating the Medium of Examination.
HOW TO APPLY
Apply Mode : Online
All the candidates who wish to apply in response to this Notice and have not generated their One-Time Registration (OTR) on the new website (https://ssc.gov.in) will be required to do so as the earlier OTR generated on the old website (https://ssc.nic.in) will not be functional for the new website. Subsequent to OTR, the candidates can proceed to fill the application for the examination. Once an OTR has been generated on the new website, it will continue to remain valid for all the examinations to be applied for on the new website.
Last date and time for receipt of online
applications 18.07.2025 (23:00)
APPLICATION FEE
Fee payable: Rs 100/- (Rs one hundred only).
Women candidates and candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) and Ex-servicemen (ESM) eligible for reservation are exempted from payment of fee.
Fee can be paid online through BHIM UPI, Net Banking or by using Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, RuPay Credit or Debit cards.
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