Mumbai, February 4:The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) will recruit 53,200 constables for central para-military forces through a common recruitment examination, SSC Chairman N K Raghupathy said here today.
This is the first time that government has decided to conduct a common recruitment examination for recruitment of Constable (General Duty) in all central para-military organizations through Staff Selection Commission. Earlier, the respective CPOs used to make recruitment of constables (GD) on their own.
Ministry of Home Affairs has intimated about 49,070 tentative vacancies of constables (General Duty) collectively, in BSF, CISF, CRPF and SSB for which a written test will be held on June 5 for candidates qualifying in physical standard/physical efficiency test and about 5000 vacancies are tentatively available in ITBP and Assam Rifles for which written examination will be held on May 1.
Raghupathy said the total vacancies may reach 80,000 by the time of written examinations.
–PTI