PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
EXTRAORDINARY
No. 4
GOVERNMENT OF GOA
Goa Staff Selection Commission
Notification
1/5/2020-GSSC/51 Date : 14-Jan-2026
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Goa Staff Selection Commission Act, 2019 (Goa Act 11 of 2019) and with the approval of the Government, the Goa Staff Selection Commission hereby makes the following regulations, so as to further amend the Goa Staff Selection Commission (Examinations, Selection of candidates to the sub-ordinate services/posts and Procedure for conduct of the business of the Commission) Regulations, 2023, namely:—
1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These regulations may be called the Goa Staff Selection Commission (Examinations, Selection of candidates to the sub-ordinate services/posts and Procedure for conduct of the business of the Commission) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2026.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Amendment of regulation 2.— In regulation 2 of the Goa Staff Selection Commission (Examinations, Selection of candidates to the sub-ordinate services/posts and Procedure for conduct of the business of the Commission) Regulations, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Regulations"), in Clause (1), for sub-clause (c), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:— "(c) "Commission's web portal" means gssc.goa.gov.in which is the official web portal maintained by the Commission and includes the web portal of the Government of Goa www.goa.gov.in, or any other portal as may be decided by the Commission".
3. Amendment of regulation 7.— In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations,—
OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 41 (EXTRAORDINARY No. 4) 14TH JANUARY, 2026 "The Commission may not send individual sms or email to the candidate". 4. Amendment of regulation 12.— In regulation 12 of the principal Regulations,— (i) for Clause (3), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—"(3) The Commission shall first proceed to shortlist candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Disability category, Ex-Servicemen Category and Meritorious Sportsperson category based on merit. The candidates so shortlisted shall be adjusted against the category to which they belong i.e. Unreserved (UR), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). The Vacancies in these categories shall be reduced to that extent. In case, candidate under Persons with Benchmark Disability category or Meritorious Sportsperson category as the case may be is not available, the number of such advertised vacancies shall be deducted from the unreserved category. For instance, the post advertised are say 10 viz. 05 UR, 01 ST, 01 SC, 02 OBC and 01 EWS, out of which 01 post to be filled from Persons with Benchmark Disability category and if the candidate under Persons with Benchmark Disability category is unavailable, it shall be deducted from unreserved category, i.e. 5-1=4. The Commission therefore, shall proceed to select only 04 candidates belonging to unreserved category.";
(ii) in Clause (7), for the existing proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:-
" Provided that the candidates from the wait list may be considered, if the candidate from the select list does not accept the offer of appointment or does not join the post after issuing appointment order or resigns or dies within one year of joining the post".
Shashank V. Thakur, Secretary, Goa Staff Selection Commission.
Panaji.