ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS- Complete Comparison

The Employee State Insurance Corporation has invited applications for recruitment of Multi-Tasking Staff 2022. There are 1956 vacancies available in 26 offices spread across various states of the country. These vacancies will be divided into different categories depending upon the reservations. The last date to apply for the recruitment is 15th February 2022.

Staff Selection Commission conducts the multi-tasking staff examination to recruit candidates in the GCS Group – C (non-ministerial, non-gazetted) posts in different ministries, departments, and offices. SSC MTS 2022 recruitment notification Exam now is expected to be released in March 2022. The notification, once released, will be available on the official website of the commission. This article contains important details and ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS comparisons.

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS – Selection Process

The selection process is given below:

ESIC MTS	SSC MTS
The selection process has the following phases: Phase I- Preliminary examination  Phase II- Main Examination	The selection process has the following stages: Written examination Paper I- Computer-Based Multiple Choice Questions Test  Paper-II- offline- descriptive test. Document Verification

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS- Eligibility

Age Criteria:

The age criteria for both the posts are given below:

ESIC MTS	SSC MTS
The minimum age of the candidate should be 18 years The maximum age of the candidate should be 25 years	The minimum age of the candidate should be 18 years The maximum age of the candidate should be 25 years

Age Relaxation

Age relaxations are provided to reserved categories. The category-wise age relaxation is given below:

Category	ESIC MTS	SSC MTS
SC (Scheduled Castes)	5 years	5 years
ST (Scheduled Tribes)	5 years	5 years
OBC (Other Backward Classes)	3 years	3 years
PwD (Persons with Disabilities)/PH (physically Handicapped)	10 years	10 years
PwD- ST (Persons with Disabilities- Scheduled Tribes)/ PH-ST	15 years	15 years
PwD- SC (Persons with Disabilities – Scheduled Caste)/PH- SC	15 years	15 years
PwD- OBC (Persons with Disabilities- Other Backward Classes)/PH- OBC	13 years	13 years
ESM- UR (Ex-Servicemen- Unreserved)	3 years After deducting the military service period from the actual age of the candidate.	3 years
ESM- OBC (Ex-Servicemen- Other Backward Classes)	6 years After deducting the military service period from the actual age of the candidate	6 years
ESM- SC (Ex-Servicemen- Scheduled Caste)	8 years After deducting the military service period from the actual age of the candidate	8 years
ESM- ST (Ex-Servicemen-Scheduled Tribes)	8 years After deducting the military service period from the actual age of the candidate	8 years
Candidates who are domiciled of Jammu & Kashmir (Unreserved/General)		5 years
Candidates who are domiciled of Jammu & Kashmir (OBC)		8 years
Candidates who are domiciled of Jammu & Kashmir (SC/ST)		10 years
Widows /Divorced Women /Women who are judicially separated but not remarried (Unreserved/General )		Up to 35 years of age
Widows /Divorced Women /Women judicially who are separated but not remarried (OBC)		Up to 38 years of age
Widows / Divorced Women / Women judicially who are separated but not remarried (SC/ST)		Up to 40 years of age
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities (General )		3 years
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities (OBC)		6 years
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities (SC/ST)		8 years
Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces (General )		Up to 45 years of age
Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces (OBC)		Up to 48 years of age
Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces (SC/ST)		Up to 50 years of age
Retrenched census employees of Office of Registrar General of India (General )		3 years
Retrenched census employees of the Office of Registrar General of India (OBC)		3 years
Retrenched census employees of Office of Registrar General of India (SC/ST)		3 years
Central Govt. Civilian Employees (General) who have rendered not less than three years of regular and continuous service as on cutoff date.		Up to 40 years of age
Central Govt. Civilian Employees (OBC) who have rendered not less than three years of regular and continuous service as on cutoff date.		Up to 43 years of age
Central Govt. Civilian Employees (SC / ST) who have rendered not less than three years of regular and continuous service as on cutoff date.		Up to 45 years of age

For ESIC MTS:

The Age relaxation of 10 years (15 years for ST/ST and 13 years for OBC Candidates) in the upper age limit shall be allowed to persons suffering from the following list given below:

• Blindness or low vision, 
• Hearing impairment,
• Locomotor disability or cerebral palsy

For SSC MTS

• It is important to note that candidates must get the benefit of reservation if they have a minimum of 40 per cent disability in case of physically handicapped. Concession to a central government employee will be granted either under the PH category or under the Central Government Employee category.
• The candidate’s date of birth will be recorded as mentioned in the matriculation certificates. 

Educational Qualification

For ESIC MTS	For SSC MTS
The candidate must have cleared class 10th or its equivalent from a recognized Board.	The candidate must have cleared class 10th or its equivalent from a recognized Board.

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS Vacancy

ESIC MTS Recruitment Vacancy 2022

 A total number of 1956 vacancies have been released for recruitment. Below are the zone-wise vacancy details.

Sr. No.	Office	MTS
1	RO Vijayawada	26
2	RO Patna	37
3	RO Raipur	21
4	ESIC Hqrs, New Delhi	292
5	Directorate Medial Delhi	9
6	RO Panji	12
7	RO Ahmedabad	127
8	RO Faridabad	76
9	RO Baddi	15
10	RO Jammu	0
11	RO Ranchi	26
12	RO Bengaluru	65
13	RO Thrissur	60
14	RO Indore	56
15	RO Mumbai	258
16	RO Guwahati	17
17	RO Bhubaneswar	41
18	RO Puducherry	7
19	RO Chandigarh	105
20	RO Jaipur	105
21	RO Delhi	0
22	RO Chennai	219
23	RO Hyderabad	43
24	RO Kanpur	119
25	RO Dehradun	17
26	RO Kolkata	203
Total	1956

SSC MTS Vacancy

The number of vacancies for the Staff Selection Commission MTS post has not been announced yet, but it is expected to be around 8500. The exact number of vacancies will be announced when the 2022 recruitment notification is issued. It is expected to be released in March 2022. The expected vacancies are given below

Name of the Region	SSC MTS Vacancies
Central Region	910
Eastern Region	856
Karnataka Kerala Region	132
Madhya Pradesh Region	83
Northern Region	1534
North-Western Region	51
North-Eastern Region	274
Western Region	1395

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS – Salary

ESIC MTS Salary

The ESIC MTS salary is paid according to the 7th pay commission. The initial basic pay is Rs. 18,000/- which can go up to Rs. 56,900/- during the service period. The detail of the salary structure is given below:

Central Pay Commission	7th CPC
Pay Level	01
Pay Band	PB-1
Pay Scale	Rs. 18,000-56,900
Grade Pay	Rs. 2400
DA (Dearness Allowance)	7 percent of Basic Pay
HRA (House Rent Allowance)	10-12 percent of Basic Pay
Travel Allowance	As per Govt. rules
Gross ESIC UDC Salary	Rs. 19,000 to 21,000
Deductions	PF (10 percent of basic) NPS (10 percent of basic DA) Income Tax- As per Govt. rules

SSC MTS Salary Structure

The SSC MTS salary is as per the 7th pay commission. The basic pay of Multitasking Staff (Non-Technical) is Rs. 18000/- and Grade Pay is Rs. 1800/-. The salary structure is given below.

SSC MTS Post	Grade Pay- 1800	Grade Pay- 1800	Grade Pay- 1800
Cities	X (Tier I)	Y (Tier II)	Z (Tier III)
Basic Pay	Rs. 18000	Rs. 18000	Rs. 18000
Housing Rent Allowance	Rs. 4320	Rs. 2880	Rs. 1440
Dearness Allowance	NIL	NIL	NIL
Travelling Allowance	Rs. 1350	Rs. 900	Rs. 900
Gross Salary	Rs. 23670	Rs. 21780	Rs. 20340
National Pension System	Rs. 1800	Rs. 1800	Rs. 1800
CGHS	Rs. 125	Rs. 125	Rs. 125
CGEGIS	Rs. 1500	Rs. 1500	Rs. 1500
Total Deduction	Rs. 3425	RS. 3425	Rs. 3425
SSC MTS In-Hand Salary	Rs. 20245	Rs. 18355	Rs. 16915

Classification of Cities

According to the 7th Pay Commission House Rent Allowance will vary according to the placement cities. Cities are classified as Class X, Y, and Z based on factors like population, cost of living, and urbanization. The classification of different HRA for different cities is given below:

Classification	List of cities
Class X	Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune
Class Y	Agra, Ajmer, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amravati, Amritsar, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bareilly, Belgaum, Bhavnagar, Bhiwandi, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bikaner, Bokaro Steel City, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Dhanbad, Durg-Bhilai Nagar, Durgapur, Erode, Faridabad, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Gulbarga, Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hubli-Dharwad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kakinada, Kochi, Kottayam, Kolhapur, Kollam, Kota, Kozhikode, Kurnool, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Malappuram, Malegaon, Mangalore, Meerut, Moradabad, Mysore, Nagpur, Nashik, Nellore, Noida, Patna, Pondicherry, Raipur, Rajkot, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Rourkela, Salem, Sangli, Siliguri, Solapur, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, Tiruchirappalli, Tiruppur, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vasai-Virar City, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal
Class Z	All other cities

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS – Perks and Allowances

ESIC MTS Allowances and Benefits:

 Apart from basic pay, they are entitled to various allowances such as:

1. DA (Dearness Allowance)
2. HRA (House rent allowance)
3. TA (Transport Allowance)
4. Other allowances

SSC MTS Allowances and Benefits:

Apart from basic pay, they are entitled to various allowances such as

• DA (Dearness allowance)

• HRA (House rent allowance)
• TA (Travel Allowance)
• Pension on retirement
• Provident Fund
• Gratuity at retirement
• Medical Allowances

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS- Powers and Responsibilities

ESIC MTS Job Profile

The responsibilities of an ESIC are given below:

• Diary and dispatch work, 
• movement of files, typing and other routine work of the branch. 
• Initiates the file after keeping the PUC and other documents in the file and submit the same in the next level for marking notes in the file.
• Maintaining files and registers related to branch/ section.
• Performing duties assigned by the Section In-charge or Office Superintendent.
• Timely preparation of reports and returns.
• Duties entrusted to him from time to time.
• Physical Maintenance of records.
• General cleanliness and upkeep of the Section Unit. 
• Photocopying, sending of FAX. 
• Other non-clerical work.
• Watch and ward duties. 
• Opening and closing of rooms. 

SSC MTS Job Profile

The candidates who clear the SSC MTS exam and are selected will be recruited for various Non-Technical or Group “C” Non-Gazetted and Non-Ministerial posts; a few of them are:

• Peon
• Gardener
• Watchman
• Junior Operator
• Gate Keepers
• Draftary

The responsibilities of an ESIC are given below:

• Maintaining the cleanliness of the office
• Carrying of files and papers within the building/outside building.
• Physical Maintenance of records of the office.
• Photocopying, sending of fax, etc.
• Other non-clerical work in the Section/Unit.
• Assisting in routine office work like the diary, dispatch, etc.
• Assisting on the computer.
• Cleaning of rooms and dusting of furniture etc.
• Delivering of Posts (Dak) (outside the building).
• Watch and ward duties.
• Opening and closing of the office. 
• Cleaning of the building, fixtures, etc.
• Driving of vehicles, if in possession of a valid driving license.
• Maintain lawns, parks, potted plants, etc., within the territory.
• Any other work assigned by the superior authority.

ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS Promotion/ Career Growth

ESIC MTS Career Growth

The promotion of an ESIC MTS is based on seniority and depends on experience and service period.

SSC MTS Career Growth 

SSC MTS employees are promoted only after the stipulated term of service is completed. They get an increment of 20 percent after a fixed period. The promotion pattern is given below:

Promotion	Year of service	Increment
1st Promotion	3 years of service	Rs. 1900/-
2nd Promotion	3 years of service	Rs. 2000/-
3rd Promotion	5 years of service	Rs. 2400/-

The final promotion continues up to Rs.5,400/-

Conclusion:

We hope this article has been helpful to you in providing the details of the ESIC MTS vs SSC MTS comparison.

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