Entry Level Qualification 

Graduate

Career Fields 

Government & Defense Services, Legal Services, Mechanic & Technician

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

No Entrance Exam

About Career 

Central Civil Services (CCS) Officers are responsible for looking after the administration and permanent bureaucracy of the Government of India and are divided into two groups: Group A and Group B. Officers of both Group A and B are gazetted officers and are categorized according to the rank, status and the degree of the level of responsibility assigned to the posts.

1. For instance: Group ‘A’ posts carry higher administrative and executive responsibilities and include senior management positions in the ministries/departments and field organizations. The middle and junior levels of Group ‘Along with Group ‘B’ constitute middle management.

2. Group B officers oversee the administrative tasks of the Government and usually perform many of their important roles and responsibilities according to their rank and position in the system. The appointments to Group B posts are made by the authorities specified by a general or special order of the President.

3.There are several posts that come under Group B services such as:

1. Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service

2. Botanical Survey of India, Group 'B'

3. Central Electrical Engineering Service, Group 'B'

4. Central Engineering Service, Group 'B'

5. Central Excise Service, Group ‘B’

6. Central Health Service, Group ‘B’

7. Central Power Engineering Service, Group ‘B’

8. Central Secretariat Official Language Service, Group ‘B’

9. Central Secretariat Service, Group 'B' (Section and Assistant Section Grade officers only)

10. Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service, (Grade I, Grade II and Selection Grade officers only)

11. Customs Appraisers Service, Group ‘B’- (Principal Appraisers and Head Appraisers)

12. Customs Preventive Service, Group ‘B’ – (Chief Inspectors)

13. Defense Secretariat Service

14. DANICS, Grade II

15. DANIPS, Grade II

16. Geological Survey of India, Group 'B'

17. Indian Foreign Service, Group ‘B’ - (General Cadre, Grade I and General Cadre, Grade II only)

18. Indian Posts and Telegraphs Accounts and Finance Service, Group ‘B’ Telecommunication Wing.

19. Indian Posts & Telegraphs Accounts & Finance Service, Postal Wing, Group ‘B’

20. Income Tax Service, Group ‘B’

21. Indian Salt Service, Group ‘B’

22. India Meteorological Service, Group ‘B'

23. Survey of India, Group 'B'

24. Postal Superintendents’ Service, Group ‘B’

25. Postmasters’ Service, Group ‘B’

26. Railway Board Secretariat Service, Group ‘B’

27. Telecommunication Engineering Service, Group ‘B’

28. Telegraphs Traffic Service, Group ‘B

29. Zoological Survey of India, Group 'B'

Key Roles and Responsibilities

As a Group B officer under various posts, you would be involved in the following key roles and responsibilities:

1. As a Gazetted officer, you would be involved in the decision-making process at the section level.

2. You would be responsible for issuing some specific guidelines to the government departments

3. You would also be involved in the administration of matters relating to Customs, Central Excise, Service Tax and Narcotics to the extent under CBEC’s purview.

4. You would also be in charge of drafting documents, preparing survey report requirements, data entry, tabulation, editing and compiling of existing data into reports and other similar responsibilities.

5. You would be involved in providing guidance about and applying taxation legislation

6. You would be examining financial accounts and related documents

7. You would be managing junior clerical and technical staff

8. You would be investigating potential fraud cases via interviews, visits and researc

9. You would be handling refund claims, TDS and other such works.

10. You would be involved in the formulation of policy concerning levy and collection of Customs & Central Excise duties and Service Tax

11. You would be responsible for auditing the accounts of central or state governments and other public sector companies

12. You would be involved in financial auditing, performance analysis, and compliance audits

13. You would be involved in maintaining communications between Parliament and the central secretariat in areas of handling parliament questions, assurances, and other government bills.

14. You would be involved in interpreting the rules and regulations given by the Central Secretariat Service (CSS), in completing files and preparing reports and other tasks.

15. You would be involved in the allocation of funds to the Regions and Postal/RMS Division. You would also monitor expenditure for achieving economy in administrations.

16. You would also be involved in the planning of postal network in circle jurisdiction according to the sanction in annual plan.

17. You would also co­ordination with the State Government Authorities and other Central Government Organizations within the circle.

18. You would be involved in conducting surveys and data collection drives for different governmental schemes, programs, socio-economic factors, urban surveys, and price indexes.

19. As a Preventive Officer, you would be posted in airports and seaports. You would be monitoring the timely and proper payment of customs duties.

20. You would be involved in overseeing and preventing illegal activities like smuggling of drugs, explosives, gold and other things that have been banned by the Government of India.

21. You would also be involved in thoroughly checking the ships, cargos, and boats that are coming into the country from other foreign countries.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies – Bachelors in any subject – Apply for and qualify SSC CGL examination – Become eligible for posts under Central Services Group B

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After completing Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies. You can start studying for SSC CGL examination while you are pursuing your graduation. You must be of the age between 20-30 years so as to be eligible for the exam. After graduation or those studying in the final year of graduation can apply for SSC CGL, you will become eligible for posts under Group B.

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies – Bachelor’s Degree in any subject/Chartered Accountant/Cost Management Accountant/ Company Secretary – Apply for and qualify SSC CGL examination - Become Assistant Audit Officer

Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies, you can go for a Bachelor’s Degree in any subject or Chartered Accountant/Cost Management Accountant/ Company Secretary or any other professional course in accounts. You can then apply for SSC CGL examination and clear all tiers to become an Assistant Audit Officer.

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies – Bachelor's Degree in any subject with Statistics - Apply for and qualify SSC CGL examination – Become Statistical Investigator Grade- II

After completing Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies, you can go for a Bachelor’s Degree in any subject with Statistics. After graduation or in the final year of graduation you can apply for and appear for SSC CGL and qualify the exam to become a Statistical Investigator Grade- II.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

To appear for Combined Graduate Level Examination, you must have a bachelor’s degree.  After pursuing your graduation, you can start preparing for SSC CGL. A post-graduation isn’t necessary to appear in this examination as the preparation of this examination is entirely different and is hardly depended on your educational qualification.

What is the Combined Graduate Level Examination (CGL) Examination?

The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts the Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam for the appointment of candidates in Grade “B” category posts at various Government Ministries, Departments, and Offices.

Combined Graduate Level exam has a four-tier system, in which tier I and tier II are computer-based and tier III and IV are descriptive paper and a computer proficiency test/skill test.

The SSC CGL Preliminary examination or Tier I comprises of four papers of 50 marks each:

1. General Intelligence and Reasoning

2. General Awareness

3. Quantitative Aptitude

4. English Comprehension

After qualifying Tier I exam, the candidates can take Tier II and Tier III exams.

The SSC CGL Mains Examination or Tier II comprises of four papers of 200 marks each:

Paper-I: Quantitative Abilities:

1. Whole numbers

2. decimals, fractions, and relationships between numbers

3. Percentage, Ratio & Proportion

4. Square roots

5. Averages

6. Interest

7. Profit and Loss, Discount

8. Partnership Business

9. Mixture and Allegation

10. Time and distance

11. Time & Work

12. Basic algebraic identities

13. Linear Equations

14. Triangles

15. Circle and its chords

16. Trigonometric ratio

17. Degree and Radian Measures

18. Standard Identities

19. Complementary angles

20. Heights and Distances 

21. Histogram

22. Frequency polygon

23. Bar diagram & Pie chart.

Paper-II: English Language and Comprehension:

1. Synonyms

2. Antonyms

3. Spelling/ detecting misspelled words

4. Idioms & phrases

5. One word substitution

6. Sentence Improvement

7. Active/passive voice

8. Conversion into direct/ indirect narration

9. Jumbled Sentences

10. Comprehension passage

Paper-III: Statistics:

1. Collection, Classification and Presentation of Statistical Data

2. Measures of Central Tendency

3. Measures of Dispersion

4. Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis

5. Correlation and Regression

6. Probability Theory

7. Random Variable and Probability Distributions

8. Sampling Theory

9. Statistical Inference

10. Analysis of Variance

11. Time Series Analysis

12. Index Numbers

Paper-IV: General Studies (Finance and Economics):

 Part A: Finance and Accounts-(80 marks): Fundamental principles and basic concept of Accounting:

1. Financial Accounting

2. Basic concepts of accounting

Economics and Governance-(120 marks):

1. Comptroller & Auditor General of India

2. Finance Commission-Role and function

3. Basic Concept of Economics and Introduction to Micro Economic

4. Theory of Demand and Supply

5. Theory of Production and cost

6. Forms of Market and price determination in different market

7. Indian Economy

8. Economic Reforms in India

9. Money and Banking

10. Role of Information Technology in Governance

The SSC CGL Tier III is a pen and paper type exam comprising of 100 marks: Tier III of SSC CGL is a descriptive type paper in which candidates’ written skills are tested. The paper is conducted offline and students have to write essays, précis, application, letter etc. and this tier carries a weightage of 100 marks. The third tier is given only by the candidates applying for the post of “Statistical Investigator Grade II” & “Compiler”.

SSC CGL Tier IV comprises of Computer Proficiency Test/ Skill Test (wherever Applicable)/Document Verification

1. For the posts of Tax Assistant (Central Excise and Income Tax), SSC CGL conducts a DEST (Data Entry Speed Test)to check the typing speed of the candidate.

2. For the post of CSS, MEA, Inspector (Central Excise), Inspector (Preventive Officer), Inspector (Examiner), SSC CGL conducts a Computer Proficiency Test (CPT) to test the candidates onWord Processing, Spread Sheets and Generation of slides.

3. For the post of Central Police Organization (CPO), SSC CGL conducts Physical Endurance Test / Medical Examination. cgl

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Interests:

Conventional: You should have interests for Conventional Occupations. Conventional occupations involve repetitive and routine tasks as well as fixed processes or procedures for getting things done. These occupations involve working more with data, systems, and procedures and less with ideas or creativity.

Social: You should have interests for Social Occupations. Social occupations involve helping or assisting others; these involve working with and communicating with people to provide various services; these may involve educating and advising others.

Abilities:

Articulation: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic

Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behavior or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emotions and situations.

Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information from various sources, concepts, and theories to form general rules or conclusions. For example, analyzing various events or situations to come out with a set of rules or conclusions

Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

Intrapersonal: The ability to clearly understand your strengths and weaknesses, what your capabilities are, what you can do and cannot do, what you like and dislike.

Numerical Reasoning: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and perform other basic numerical calculations correctly.

Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a long period of time without being distracted.

Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Knowledge:

Administration: Knowledge of various administrative and operational functions in managing an organization such as general administration, facility management, front office management, back-office management, etc.

Politics & Governance: Knowledge about different political ideologies, political systems and processes, governance standards and processes, constitutions, etc.

Public Administration: Knowledge about the formulation and implementation of the policies, plans, projects, and programs of a Government; knowledge about the management of Government or public organizations; management of people who work for a Government or Government organizations.

Skills:

Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation and otherwise for application in getting work done.

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

Coordination: Skills in working together with other people to get things done.

Critical Thinking: Skills in analysis of complex situations, using of logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

Directing: Skills in directing others' actions to get things done

Instruction: Skills in training others how to do something.

Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering the pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.

Managing Financial Resources: Skills in determining how money should be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.

Service Orientation: Skills in or keen interest to help and assist people

Supervising: Skills in Supervising and monitoring performance of others, businesses, and different projects.

Time Management: Skills in prioritizing work, managing time effectively.

Personality:

1. You are always or mostly organized in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You always feel secure in your surroundings and in most situations.

3. You are always self-satisfied or feel satisfied with your life in most situations.

4. You are a soft-hearted person sometimes.

5. You trust others sometimes but not always.

6. You are helpful to others sometimes.

7. You remain calm in difficult situations sometimes but some other times you are anxious.

8. You are imaginative sometimes.

9. You prefer to experience new things and have new experiences sometimes.

10. You act independently sometimes but do not do so in some other times.

11. You are friendly and outgoing sometimes, but not always. You prefer the company of people sometimes but not always.

12. You are caring, supportive, sympathetic and kind to others sometimes.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

As a Group B Officer, you may find recruitment for the following posts to various posts in Ministries/Departments of the Government of India:

1. Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Services

2. Botanical Survey of India

3. Central Electrical Engineering Service

4. Central Engineering Service

5. Central Excise Service

6. Central Health Service

7. Central Power Engineering Service

8. Central Secretariat Official Language Service

9.Central Secretariat Service, Group 'B' (Section and Assistant Section Officers Grade only)

10. Customs Appraisers Service- (Principal Appraisers and Head Appraisers)

11. Customs Preventive Service– (Chief Inspectors)

12. Defense Secretariat Service

13. DANICS (DANICS refers to the "NCT of Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service)

14. Geological Survey of India

15. Indian Foreign Service - (General Cadre, Grade I and General Cadre, Grade II only)

16. Indian Posts and Telegraphs Accounts and Finance Service, Group ‘B’ Telecommunication Wing

17. Indian Posts & Telegraphs Accounts & Finance Service, Postal Wing

18. Income Tax Service

19. Indian Salt Service

20. India Meteorological Service

21. Survey of India

22. Postal Superintendent Service

23. Postmasters’ Service

24. Railway Board Secretariat Service(SO and ASO only)

25. Telecommunication Engineering Service

26. Telegraphs Traffic Service

27. Zoological Survey of India

You may find opportunities in the above-mentioned posts under the following

Ministries/Departments:

1. Indian Audit & Accounts Department under CAG

2.Intelligence Bureau

3. Central Secretariat Service

4. Ministry of Railways

5. Ministry of External Affairs

6. Armed Forces Headquarters

7. Central Board of Direct Taxes

8. Enforcement Directorate, Department of Revenue

9. Central Board of Excise and Customs

10. National Investigation Agency

11. Ministry of Statistics & Program implementation

Career  Growth

1. If you start your career as Audit Assistant Officer (AAO), you will progress as:

 Audit Assistant Officer/AAO - Audit Officer/AO- Senior Accounts Officer- Deputy Director/Deputy AG - Director/ AG - Principal Director - Director-General

2. If you start your career as Assistant Section Officer, you will progress as:

Assistant Section officer - Section Officer-Undersecretary - Joint Director - Director - Joint Secretary

3. If you start as Income Tax Inspector, you will progress as:

Income Tax Inspector - Income Tax Officer (Grade-‘B’ Gazetted) - Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax - Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax - Joint Commissioner of Income Tax - Additional Commissioner of Income Tax - Commissioner of Income Tax

4. If you start as Central Excise Inspector, you will progress as:

Superintendent (Group-B Gazetted) - Assistant Commissioner - Deputy Commissioner - Joint Commissioner - Additional Commissioner–Commissioner

5. If you start as Assistant Armed Forces Headquarters (AFHQ), you will progress as:

Section Officer – Deputy Director – Joint Director – Director – Principal Director 

6. If you start as Assistant Enforcement Officer, you will progress as:

Assistant Enforcement Officer - Enforcement Officer - Assistant Director of Enforcement Directorate - Deputy Director of Enforcement Directorate - Joint Director - Additional Director - Special Director in Enforcement Directorate.

7. Sub-Inspector in CBI:

Sub-Inspector - Inspector - Deputy Superintendent - Additional Superintendent- Superintendent - Senior Superintendent

8. Assistant in Ministry of Railways:

Section Officer – Under Secretary – Deputy Secretary – Director

9. Junior Statistical Officer:

Senior Statistical Officer – Assistant Director – Deputy Director – Joint Director – Director – Deputy Director-General – Additional Director General Director-General

10. Inspector (Preventive Officer):

As an Inspector (Preventive Officer), you will have to experience 8-10 years in service after which you will be promoted to a Group B Gazetted position. You will then be promoted to the IRS level post after which you will work as a Group-A officer.

11. Superintendent of Customs (Group B Gazetted Officer):

Assistant Commissioner (Group A) – Deputy Commissioner – Joint Commissioner​​​​​​​

Salary Offered  

1. According to the 7^th pay commission, As a Group B officer at the entry level, with an experience of 0-2 years, you would earn around Rs.25, 000 –41, 100 per month

2. At Junior Level with an experience of 1-12 years, you would earn around Rs.42,300 – 65,200 per month

3. At Middle level with an experience of 5-12+ years, you would earn around Rs.77,700 – 1,09,100  

4. At senior level with an experience of 10-25+ years, you would earn around Rs.1,80, 800 – 2,11,800 per month

Monthly Earning in Indian Rupees:

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience 

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

Analyzing and interpreting data and information: Analysis of data and information to find facts, trends, reasons behind situations, etc.; interpretation of data to aid in decision making.

Assessing and determining compliance with standards, laws, rules and guidelines: Using relevant information, auditing information, processes and systems to determine whether organizations or people are complying with standards, laws, rules and guidelines

Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc. or with people at large

Decision making and problem solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

Developing and maintaining inter-personal relationships: Developing professional relationships with co-workers and others outside organisations and maintaining good relationships.

Estimating quantity, cost, time and resources: Estimating sizes, volumes, distance, and quantity; estimating and determining time, costs, and resources; estimating materials required to perform a task.

Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

Handling administrative activities: Handling various administrative tasks and managing day-to-day operations.

Inspecting situations, events, and people: Inspecting situations, events and people to understand the reasons and causes for the situation or events to happen; inspecting people to understand reasons behind their behaviour and actions.

Leading: Inspiring and motivating co-workers to work to achieve specific goals; enabling and facilitating others to perform tasks effectively; addressing issues and solving problems in order to help people perform well.

Managing and supervising: Managing and supervising work of others; setting goals; giving instructions; monitoring work performance, etc.

Monitoring use of resources: Monitoring and controlling use of resources like land and materials as well as spending of money.

Negotiating: Negotiating terms, conditions, costs, prices and about other issues.

Organising, planning and prioritising tasks: Planning and organising tasks in order to achieve work goals; prioritising tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.

Providing advices and consultation to others: Giving advices or consultation to others about various issues, conceptual matters, know-hows, scientific matters, products or services.

Scheduling tasks: Scheduling project timelines, tasks and activities.

Strategic planning: Developing visions and goals, developing strategies and action plans for achieving visions and goals.

Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and process information; for writing.

Working in a team: Working in a team of people; developing team; maintaining professional relationships among team members.