UPSC Releases Notification for EPFO EO/AO Recruitment Exam 2020-21 Centre Change

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) today announced a notification regarding centre change for Enforcement Officer (EO)/ Accounts Officer (AO) recruitment test 2020-2021. The Union Public Service Commission will be conducting the Recruitment Test for Enforcement Officer/Accounts Officer in the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation on 09.05.2021 (Sunday) all over India as per the Revised Programme of Examinations/RTs published on 05.06.2020.

The UPSC noted that candidates request for change in their Centres can be done against the available capacities at the existing Centres and new Centres.

The notice said, "Keeping in view the large number of candidates and requests received from the candidates for changing their Centres as well as requests received from candidates for open centres at Kolkata and Jaipur being more than their capacity, the Commission has decided to give an opportunity to the candidates, if they wish, to submit their revised choice of Centre for the Recruitment Test."

All You Need to Know

• As many as 49 centres having available capacity will be opened in the first phase.
• In the second phase, other centres shall be opened as feasible.
• The window of submitting the revised choice of Centres by the candidates will be operational in two phases i.e. 15th to 21st December 2020 (06.00 PM) and 29th December 2020 to 04th January 2021 (06.00 PM) on the Commission’s website.

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Find the Official Notice from UPSC here

The commission said that requests for change in the recruitment exam centres will be considered based on the principle of "first apply-first allot" basis. After the capacity of a particular centre is attained, it will be frozen. Those, who cannot get a centre of their choice due to ceiling will have to select choose from remaining options.