SSC CGL 2023 Notification: Aspirants Urges Commission to Revise Age Limit Cut-Off Date

SSC CGL 2023 Recruitment Notification: #SSC_CGL_Age_Reckoning_1_JAN is trending on several social media platforms. To know in detail, read below.

SSC CGL Recruitment Notification 2023: The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has released the recruitment notification, inviting candidates to apply for various Group ‘B’ and Group ‘C’ posts in different Ministries/ Departments/Organizations of the Government of India and various Constitutional Bodies/ Statutory Bodies/ Tribunals, etc. Interested candidates can fill up the SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Examination, 2023 application form by visiting the official website of the Commission at ssc.nic.in. The last date for payment through Challan (during working hours of the Bank) is May 5, 2023.

As per the SSC CGL notification, the computer-based examination will be conducted in two tiers — Tier-I and Tier-II. The Tier-I (Computer-Based Examination) will be conducted in July 2023. However, aspirants are not happy with the detailed notification. #SSC_CGL_Age_Reckoning_1_JAN is trending on several social media platforms. To know in detail, read below.

Know Why Aspirants Are Trending #SSC_CGL_AGE_RECKONING_1_JAN on Twitter?

Following the announcement of the SSC CGL examination detailed notification by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) — the exam conducting body, Aspirants are now trending #SSC_CGL_Age_Reckoninh_1_JAN on the microblogging site – Twitter and demanding the Commission to revise the date of SSC CGL 2023 age eligibility. According to the official notification, the Commission has set the age recognition date to ensure the age limit criteria for recruitment to various positions as August 1, 2023. Meanwhile, several applicants have urged the Central government to modify the age reckoning date for eligibility to the SSC CGL examination from August 1, 2023, to January 1, 2023.

As per several tweets, students, want the Commission to change the age limit date from August 1, 2023, to January 1, 2023. If not done, several aspirants will become ineligible to appear for the examination.

Lakhs of students have taken to social media to express their concerns, tagging authorities such as PM Modi, the Official Twitter Account of Department of Personnel & Training, and using hashtags such as #SSC_CGL_AGE_RECKONING_1_JAN. Taking to Twitter, one SSC aspirant said,” Students were accustomed to the age of reckoning being 1st of January for SSC CGL recruitment because it had been like that for the last 4-5 years. Now, a sudden change has left them hopeless.”

Taking to Micro Blogging site Twitter, aspirants have been urging the commission to change the age limit using #SSC_CGL_AGE_RECKONING_1_JAN Trends on Twitter. Echoing similar concerns, another aspirant said, “More than 1.2 lakh tweets. There are many affected aspirants. Please change cut off date to 1-Jan-23 for SSC CGL 2023 students.”