- Staff Selection Commission (SSC) with Headquarters at New Delhi was set up on 1st July, 1978. It recruits (i) all non—Gazetted Group ‘B’ posts in the various Ministries / Departments of the Government and their attached and subordinate offices and (ii) all non-technical Group ‘C’ posts in the various Ministries/ Departments of the Government and their attached and subordinate offices, except those posts which are specifically exempted from the purview of the Staff Selection Commission.
- The Commission is an attached office of the Department of Personnel and Training and comprises a Chairman, two Members and Secretary-cum-Controller of Examinations.
- The Commission has Regional offices at New Delhi, Allahabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai and Bangalore and Sub-Regional offices at Raipur and Chandigarh.
- The Central Secretariat has three services, namely: (i) Central Secretariat Service (CSS), (ii) Central Secretariat Stenographer’s Service (CS-SS) and (iii) the Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS).
- The Central Secretariat Service Division in the Department of Personnel and Training is the cadre controlling authority in respect of these services.
- The Government had set up a Cadre Restructuring Committee on 16 June, 2008: (i) to assess the magnitude of stagnation in various grades of CSS, (ii) to review the structure of the CSS, and (iii) to suggest remedial measures—both short term and long term. The Committee has since submitted its report in November, 2008. The report was later on considered by the Committee of Secretaries on 9 February, 2010.
- Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) is the nodal agency of the Government for administrative reforms as well as redressal of public grievances relating to the States in general and grievances pertaining to Central Government agencies in particular.
- The Department is implementing e-office Mission Mode Project under the National e-Governance Plan.
- The Department documents and disseminates information on important activities of the Government relating to administrative reforms.
- Administrative Reforms Commission: The 2nd Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) was constituted on 31st May, 2005, as a Commission of Inquiry, under the Chairmanship of Shri Veerappa Moily for preparing a detailed blueprint for revamping the public administrative system.
- The Commission has presented 15 Reports to the Government for consideration: (i) Right to Information: Master Key to Good Governance. (ii) Unlocking Human Capital: Entitlements and Governance-a Case Study. (iii) Crisis Management: From Despair to Hope. (iv) Ethics in Governance. (v) Public Order: justice for each…Peace for all 26 June, 2007. (vi) Local Governance. (vii) Capacity Building for Conflict Resolution & Friction to Fusion. (viii) Combating Terrorism. (ix) Social Capital-A Shared Destiny. (x) Refurbishing of Personnel Administration-Scaling New Heights. (xi) Promoting e-Governance-The Smart Way Forward. (xii) Citizen Centric Administration—The Heart of Governance. (xiii) Organisational Structure of Government of India. (xiv) Strengthening Financial Management System. (xv) State and District Administration.
