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Date of Exam: (Online Exam)

April, 2023

Last Date of Application

A) 17.02.23 (up to 23:00)

Now the last date of Application has been extended to 24.02.23 (up to 23:00). See the notice of SSC regarding this:

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B) Dates of ‘Window for Application Form Correction’ and online payment of Correction Charges: 23.02.2023 to 09.05.2022 (23:00). After the closing date for receipt of online applications, the Commission will provide a period of 2 days to enable candidates to correct/ modify online application parameters, wherein candidates will be allowed to re-submit applications after making requisite corrections/ changes in the one-time registration/ online application data as per their requirement.

Only those candidates will be allowed to make corrections in the application form, whose completed online applications along-with payment of requisite fee, have been received by the Commission within the specified period.

NOTE-I: Only one online application is allowed to be submitted by a candidate for the Examination during normal period for submission of online applications, which does not include the period of ‘Window for Application Form Correction’.

NOTE-II: In case, more than one application of a candidate with different registration numbers is detected, all the applications will be rejected by the Commission and his candidature for the examination will be cancelled.

If a candidate submits multiple applications and appears in the examination (at any stage) more than once, his candidature will be cancelled and he will be debarred from the examinations of the Commission as per rules.

NOTE-III: After the closing date for receipt of online applications, the Commission will provide a period of 2 days to enable candidates to correct/ modify online application parameters, wherein candidates will be allowed to re-submit applications after making requisite corrections/ changes in the one-time registration/ online application data as per their requirement.

Latest modified application will be treated as the valid one and the previous application(s) submitted by such candidates for the examination will be cancelled.

NOTE-IV: Copies of supporting documents will be sought at the time of Document Verification, means they are not to be submitted with the application.

Posts under this Exam

a) Multi-Tasking (Non-Technical) Staff (in Pay Level-1 as per Pay Matrix of 7th Pay Commission

b) Havaldar (in Pay Level-1 as per Pay Matrix of 7th Pay Commission) in Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) and Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN)

Job Description of MTS Post

This is a Grade-C job which earlier had posts Peon, Daftary,  Junior Gestetner Operator, Farash, Chowkidar, Mali etc.

Number of vacancies

Tentative vacancies for the posts are as under:

a) MTS: 10880
b) Havaldar in CBIC and CBN: 529

NOTE: Now the SSC has published the region-wise details of the vacancies. Have a look at them:

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1. Age Limit: (As on 01-01-2023)

a) 18-25 years (i.e. candidates born not before 02.01.1998 and not later than 01.01.2005) for MTS and Havaldar in CBN

b) 18-27 years (i.e. candidates born not before 02.01.1996 and not later than 01.01.2005) for Havaldar in CBIC and few posts of MTS

2. Educational Qualification (as on 17.02.2023)

The candidates must have passed Matriculation Examination or equivalent from a recognized Board.

NOTE-I: As per Ministry of Human Resource Development Notification dated 10-06-2015 published in the Gazette of India, all the degrees/ diplomas/ certificates awarded through Open and Distance Learning mode of education by the Universities established by an Act of Parliament or State Legislature, Institutions Deemed to be Universities under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and Institutions of National Importance declared under an Act of Parliament stand automatically recognized for the purpose of employment to posts and services under the Central Government provided they have been approved by the Distance Education Bureau, University Grants Commission.

Accordingly, unless such degrees are recognized for the relevant period when the candidates acquired the qualification, they will not be accepted for the purpose of Educational Qualification.

NOTE-II: The candidates who are able to prove, by documentary evidence, that the result of the qualifying examination was declared on or before 17.02.23   and he has been declared passed, will also be considered to meet the educational qualification.

It is reiterated that the result of requisite educational qualification must have been declared by the Board/ Institute/ University by the specified date.

NOTE-III: Candidates possessing equivalent educational qualification shall also produce relevant Equivalence Certificate from the authorities concerned at the time of Document Verification. However, final decision regarding selection of such candidates will be taken by the User Departments/ Appointing Authorities concerned.

3. Current Salary

4. Scheme of Exam

The examination will consist of a Computer Based Examination, Physical Efficiency Test (PET)/ Physical Standard Test (PST) (only for the post of Havaldar).

The Computer Based Examination will be conducted in Hindi, English and in 13 regional languages viz. (i) Assamese, (ii) Bengali, (iii) Gujarati, (iv) Kannada, (v) Konkani, (vi) Malayalam, (vii) Manipuri, (viii) Marathi, (ix) Odia, (x) Punjabi, (xi) Tamil, (xii) Telugu and (xiii) Urdu (Annexure-XV).

Computer Based Examination will be conducted in two Sessions: Session-I and Session-II and both the Sessions will be mandatory to be attempted. Not attempting any session will disqualify the candidate.

NOTE-I: Computer Based Examination will consist of Objective Type, Multiple choice questions.

NOTE-II: There will be no negative marking in Session-I. In Session-II, there will be negative marking of one mark for each wrong answer. Candidates are, therefore, advised to keep this in mind while answering the questions.

NOTE-III: The performance of the candidate in Session-I will be evaluated first and performance in Session-II would be evaluated only if a candidate qualifies in Session-I.