SSC Junior Engineer Eligibility Criteria

Staff Selection Commission conducts ‘JE’ Examination every year for the posts of Junior Engineers (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Quantity Surveying and Contract). Candidates of engineering background, if are willing to apply for the JE examination, they need to follow and fulfill all the conditions of eligibility decided by SSC.

Here, candidates have been provided with all the details about the eligibility criteria regarding Junior Engineer (JE) Examination-

Nationality/Citizenship of the Applicants-

A candidate must be either
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
(e) 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.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

Age Criteria/Limitation

SSC has decided the different age criteria for the posts of ‘junior engineers’ in various departments. Candidates will be appointed in various departments as shown in the table below and their age should be between the parameters as provided-

S.No. Name of the Post Category of the Post Name of the Department Age Criteria
1 Junior engineer Civil & Electrical CPWD and Department of Posts 18-27 years
2 Junior Engineer Civil, Electrical & Mechanical MES (Military Engineering services) 18-30 years
3 Junior Engineer Civil & Mechanical CWC and Farakka Barrage. 18-32 Years
4 Junior Engineer Quantity Surveying and Contract MES (Military Engineering services) 18-27 years
5 Junior Engineer Electrical &Mechanical Border Roads Organization (BRO) of Ministry of Defense 18-30

Permissible Age Relaxation in Upper Age Limit as per Government Orders –

S.No

 

Category of the Community Age-Relaxation
01 Scheduled Caste (SC)and Scheduled Tribe (ST)  5 years

 

 

02 Other Backward Category (OBC)  

3 years

 

 

03 Defense Personnel who got disabled in operation during hostilities/fighting with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (OBC )  

10 years

 

04 Defense Personnel who has disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed  area and released as a consequence thereof (SC/ST)   13 years

 

 

05 Defense Personnel who got disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (Unreserved/General )  

15 years

 

 

06 Candidates who had customarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( SC/ST)  

15 years

 

07 Candidates who had customarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( OBC )

 

 

03 years

 

 

08 Candidates who had customarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( Unreserved/General )  

06 years

 

09 Central Govt. Civilian Employees (SC/ST) who have provided not less than 3 years of regular and continuous service as on the closing date.  

06 years

 

 

 

10 Central Govt. Civilian Employees (OBC) who have delivered not less than 3 years of regular and continuous service as on closing date.  

06 years

 

11 Central Govt. Civilian Employees (General/Unreserved) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on crucial date.  

 

08 years

 

 

12 Defense Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (OBC )  

5 years

 

 

13 Defense Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed  area and released as a consequence thereof (SC/ST)  

8 (5 +3) years

 

14 Defense Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (Unreserved/General )  

10(5+5) years

 

 

15 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( SC/ST)  

5 years

 

 

16 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( OBC )  

8 years

 

17 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( Unreserved/General )   10 years

Minimum Essential Educational Qualifications

The Most Important Element of the Eligibility Criteria, the Educational Qualification of the aspirants should be as provided in the following table-

S.No. Name of the Post Category of the Diploma Educational Qualification
1 Junior Engineer (CPWD)  

Civil and Electrical

Diploma in Civil or Electrical or Mechanical
Engineering from an institution recognized by the
Central Government or equivalent qualification
2  

Junior Engineer (Department of Posts)

 

Civil & Electrical

Three years Diploma or equivalent in Civil
Engineering or Electrical Engineering from an
institution recognized by the Central Government or
State Government.
3 Junior Engineer Border Roads Organization (BRO)
Ministry of Defense 

 

Civil Three years Diploma in Civil Engineering or equivalent from a recognized University or Institute.

Two years working experience in the field of civil
construction in monitoring and executive of
projects

4 Junior Engineer, Border Roads Organization (BRO) Ministry of Defense

 

Electrical and Mechanical Three years Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree from a recognized University or Institute.
5 Junior Engineer (MES)

 

Electrical & Mechanical Three years diploma in Civil
Engineering from a recognized Institute or University
or Board and;
(II) Two years experience in Planning, Execution and
Maintenance of Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
works.
6 Junior Engineer, CWC and Farakka Barrage. Civil & Mechanical Degree or Diploma in Civil or Mechanical Engineering from a recognized University or
Institution

 

Note for the Candidates-

Candidates who don’t have the minimum educational qualification as mentioned in the table above; need not apply for the Junior Engineer Examination; despite they do so, their application will be rejected.

If you are an aspirant to apply for the post of ‘Junior Engineer’; you mandatorily need to fulfill the JE eligibility Criteria.

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