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The Staff Selection Commission SSC will hold an examination for Recruitment of Postal Assistants/Sorting Assistants, Data Entry Operators, Lower Divisional Clerks and Court Clerk and other posts. Candidates must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognised Board or University. As per Ministry of Human Resource Development Notification No. 44 dated 01-03-1995 published in Gazette of India edition dated 08-04-1995, the Degree obtained through open Universities/ Distance Education Mode needs to be recognised by Distance Education Council, IGNOU. Accordingly, unless such Degrees had been recognised for the period when the candidates acquired the relevant qualification, they will not be accepted for the purpose of Educational Qualification. All candidates who are called for appearing at the Typing Test/Skill Test will be required to produce the relevant Certificate in Original such as Mark sheets, Provisional Certificate, etc. As proof of having acquired the minimum educational qualification on or before 01.01.2017 failing which the Commission will cancel the candidature of such candidate. The candidates who can prove, by documentary evidence that the result of the qualifying examination was declared on or before the cutoff date I. e. 01.01.2017 and he/she has been declared passed, will also be considered to have the required Educational Qualification. - Eligibility Criteria for SSCNationality :
A candidate must be either:
a citizen of India, or
a subject of Nepal, or
a subject of Bhutan, or
a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January 1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East
African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (Formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the Examination, but the offer of appointment will be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Government of India.