Prayagraj: The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has increased the number of vacancies under the Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Examination 2025 from 14,582 to 15,130 following additional requisitions from various central govt ministries and departments.According to the commission, the recruitment drive was announced on June 9, 2025. Later, ministries, departments, constitutional and statutory bodies sent requests for 548 additional posts under Group ‘B’ and ‘C’ categories, raising the number of vacancies. Of the total, 6,464 are unreserved, 3,834 for OBC, 2,223 for SC, 1,134 for ST and 1,475 for the economically weaker sections. Maximum 6,626 vacancies are in the Central Board of Direct Taxes under the ministry of finance. These include 412 posts of income tax inspector and 1,294 posts of tax assistant, along with other supervisory positions. Similarly, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) will recruit candidates for several posts including 1,306 posts of inspector (central excise), 137 posts of inspector (examiner), and 353 posts of inspector (preventive officer). In addition, 183 executive assistant and 771 tax assistant posts will also be filled in the CBIC. The commission directed candidates who appeared in the Tier-II examination to submit their post and department preferences before the declaration of the final result. Candidates can fill in their preferences through their login on the SSC website from March 9 (6 pm) to March 12 (6 pm). SSC clearly stated that those who fail to submit their preferences within the deadline will not be considered for the final merit list or selection process. The Tier-I result was declared on Dec 18, while the Tier-II examination was conducted from Jan 18 to 20. PwD candidates were also advised to select only those posts that are suitable for their category of disability. Meanwhile, SSC also declared the Paper-I result of the junior engineer (Civil, Mechanical and Electrical) Examination 2025, with 15,607 candidates qualifying for Paper-II. The schedule for the next stage will be announced soon.
