SSC Stenographer Eligibility Criteria 2021

SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D Eligibility Criteria 2020 - 2021

There are certain eligibility criteria required by SSC for SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D posts. If you are applying for SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D exam, you are advised to first check the eligibility criteria to avoid any kind of disqualification from the exam. The eligibility criteria for SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D includes age limit, educational qualification, skills test.

SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D Educational criteria

The minimum educational qualification for SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D is 10+2 or equivalent examination. Additional educational qualification related information is provided in tabular form below. You must take a look at the educational criteria before filling the SSC application form.

Post	Educational Criteria
SSC Stenographer Grade ‘C’ and ‘D’	Must have passed 12^th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.

SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D Age Limit Criteria

SSC invites young aspirants to become part of the organization by inviting application for SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D posts who further will be posted into different ministries and departments. SSC has prescribed different age limit for both the posts i.e. Group C and Group D. For Group C posts you must lie between 18 to 30 years and for group D posts 18 to 27 years of age as on the date mentioned in the official notification.

Post	Age Criteria
SSC Stenographer Grade ‘C’	18 to 30 years
SSC Stenographer Grade ‘D’	18 to 27 years

SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D Age relaxation

The government has given certain age relaxation to reserved category candidates like SC/ST/OBC/EX servicemen. Complete details related to SSC Stenographer age relaxation is provided in tabular form below.

Code No	Category	Age relaxation
01	SC/ ST	5 years
02	OBC	3 years
03	PwD (Unreserved)	10 years
04	PwD (OBC)	13 years
05	PwD (SC/ ST)	15 years
06	Ex-Servicemen (ESM)	3 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.	5 years
08	Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof	3 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)	8 years

Age relaxation for Group C posts

Permissible relaxation in the upper age limit is given if you are a central government civilian employees, widows/ divorcees. For complete details on the age relaxation section for such category, please refer to the table below.

Code No	Category	Age relaxation
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.

SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D Exam Centres

SSC Stenographer Grade C and Grade D Exam will be held all over India. You will be given a choice to opt any examination centre of your choice while filling the SSC exam application form. Three examination centres in priority can be marked by you as a centre of examination and one of them will be allotted to you as an examination centre. For complete details about the SSC Stenographer centre of examination you can look at the table below.

Sl. No.	Examination Centers & Centre Code	SSC Region and States/ UTs under the jurisdiction of the Region	Address of the Regional Offices/ website
1	Agra (3001), Prayagraj (3003), Bareilly (3005), Gorakhpur (3007), Kanpur (3009), Lucknow (3010), Meerut (3011), Varanasi (3013), Bhagalpur (3201), Muzaffarpur (3205), Patna (3206)	Central Region (CR)/ Bihar and Uttar Pradesh	Regional Director (CR), Staff Selection Commission, 34-A, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Civil lines, Kendriya Sadan, Prayagraj – 211001. (http//www.ssc-cr.org)
2	Gangtok (4001), Ranchi (4205), Kolkata (4410), Siliguri (4415), Bhubaneshwar (4604), Cuttack (4605), Sambalpur (4609), Port Blair (4802)	Eastern Region (ER)/ Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim and West Bengal	Regional Director (ER), Staff Selection Commission, 1st MSO Building, (8th Floor), 234/4, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Kolkata, West Bengal-700020 (www.sscer.org)
3	Bengaluru (9001), Belagavi (9002), Hubballi (9011), Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) (9005), Mangaluru (9008), Mysuru (9009), Shivamogga (9010), Udupi (9012), Thiruvananthapuram (9211), Ernakulam (9213), Kannur (9202), Kollam (9210), Kottayam (9205), Kozhikode (9206), Thrissur (9212)	Karnataka, Kerala Region (KKR)/ Lakshadweep, Karnataka and Kerala	Regional Director (KKR), Staff Selection Commission, 1st Floor, “E” Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034 (www.ssckkr.kar.nic.in)
4	Bhopal (6001), Gwalior (6005), Indore (6006), Jabalpur (6007), Satna (6014), Sagar (6015), Ujjain (6016), Bilaspur (6202), Raipur (6204), Durg-Bhilai (6205)	Madhya Pradesh Sub-Region (MPR)/ Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh	Dy. Director (MPR), Staff Selection Commission, J-5, Anupam Nagar, Raipur, Chhattisgarh-492007 (www.sscmpr.org)
5	Itanagar (5001), Dibrugarh (5102), Guwahati(Dispur) (5105), Jorhat (5107), Silchar (5111), Kohima (5302), Shillong (5401), Imphal (5501), Churachandpur (5502), Ukhrul (5503), Agartala (5601), Aizwal (5701)	North Eastern Region (NER)/ Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura.	Regional Director (NER), Staff Selection Commission, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Beltola-Basistha Road, P. O. Assam Sachivalaya, Dispur, Guwahati, Assam-781006 (www.sscner.org.in)
6	Dehradun (2002), Haldwani (2003), Haridwar (2005), Roorkee (2006), Delhi (2201), Ajmer (2401), Alwar (2402), Bikaner (2404), Jaipur (2405), Jodhpur (2406), Kota (2407), Sriganganagar (2408), Udaipur (2409), Sikar (2411)	Northern Region (NR)/ NCT of Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand	Regional Director (NR), Staff Selection Commission, Block No. 12, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 (www.sscnr.net.in)
7	Jammu (1004), Leh (1005), Srinagar (1007), Samba (1010), Hamirpur (1202), Shimla (1203), Jalandhar (1402), Amritsar (1404), Mohali (1406), Chandigarh (1601)	North Western Sub-Region (NWR)/ Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab	Dy. Director (NWR), Staff Selection Commission, Block No. 3, Ground Floor, Kendriya Sadan, Sector-9, Chandigarh-160009 (www.sscnwr.org)
8	Guntur (8001), Kurnool (8003), Rajahmundry (8004), Tirupati (8006), Vishakhapatnam (8007), Vijaywada (8008), Chennai (8201), Coimbatore (8202), Madurai (8204), Tiruchirapalli (8206), Tirunelveli (8207), Puducherry (8401), Hyderabad (8601), Warangal (8603)	Southern Region (SR)/ Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.	Regional Director (SR), Staff Selection Commission, 2nd Floor, EVK Sampath Building, DPI Campus, College Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu-600006 (www.sscsr.gov.in)
9	Ahmedabad (7001), Vadodara (7002), Rajkot (7006), Surat (7007), Amravati (7201), Aurangabad (7202), Kolhapur (7203), Mumbai (7204), Nagpur (7205), Nashik (7207), Pune (7208), Panaji (7801)	Western Region (WR)/ Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra	Regional Director (WR), Staff Selection Commission, 1st Floor, South Wing, Pratishtha Bhawan, 101, Maharshi Karve Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra-400020 (www.sscwr.net)