ESIC Stenographer Eligibility, Important Dates

ESIC publishes no age limit, qualification, fee or relaxation table for this post. They're set in the AIIMS CRE notice for each cycle, on the AIIMS recruitments page.

One rule is on ESIC's record: if you're selected and decline the post, your candidature is cancelled, and ESIC says "no further communication in this regard will be entertained".

ESIC runs no written test, skill test or interview for this post. Selection is through the AIIMS CRE:

1. Apply to AIIMS when a CRE notice that includes ESIC posts is open.
2. Sit the AIIMS exam, and any skill test its notice sets. Stenographer posts are usually tested on shorthand dictation and transcription as well as a written paper, but the speed, timings and error limits are in the AIIMS notice.
3. Get allotted to a post and institution on merit and your choices.
4. ESIC appoints you, and handles anything after that, such as cancellations.

The recruitment ESIC does run itself is for its hospitals and medical colleges: Senior Residents, faculty, tutors and contract doctors, mostly by walk-in interview, posted on its Recruitments page.

ESIC was set up under the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948. It runs India's contributory social security scheme for organised-sector workers, covering sickness, maternity, disablement and dependants' benefits, with its own hospitals, dispensaries and medical colleges.

A Stenographer works for officers at ESIC's headquarters and its Regional and Sub-Regional Offices, taking dictation, transcribing and handling correspondence and diaries.

ESIC's medical posts are recruited locally, hospital by hospital. Its administrative and paramedical Group 'C' posts are filled centrally through the AIIMS CRE, which is why an ESIC appointment in Maharashtra carries an AIIMS notice number.

There are no ESIC dates for this post. The dates come with each AIIMS CRE notice, posted on the AIIMS recruitments page. The CRE notice behind ESIC's 2025 Group 'C' appointments was Notice No. 278/2025, dated 11 July 2025.

After the result, ESIC posts appointments and cancellations on its Recruitments page, each with a publish date, last date and serial number. If ESIC ever recruits to this post directly, that's where the notice would appear.

Prepare for the CRE

There's no ESIC syllabus. The exam is the AIIMS CRE, and its notice sets the pattern, marking and any skill test. Read the participating institutions and post list in it: you choose ESIC posts there. Information about the CRE is on aiimsexams.ac.in.

What to work on meanwhile

Group 'C' papers in central government usually cover general intelligence and reasoning, general awareness, quantitative aptitude and English or Hindi. For a stenographer post, build shorthand speed and accurate transcription well before the notice. For ESIC itself, learn the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 and the benefits it pays.

Decide before you choose ESIC

If you're allotted an ESIC post and turn it down, your candidature is cancelled.

• ESIC Recruitments, where ESIC posts appointments and cancellations
• Employees' State Insurance Corporation
• ESIC Regional Office Mumbai notice of 09-09-2026, naming AIIMS CRE-2025 as the route to a Group 'C' post
• AIIMS New Delhi recruitments, where CRE notices appear
• AIIMS Common Recruitment Examination
• Staff Selection Commission, which runs other common exams for central Group C posts
• Ministry of Labour and Employment

Does ESIC hold an exam for Stenographer?

No. ESIC issues no notification for this post. Its Group 'C' posts are filled through the AIIMS Common Recruitment Examination.

How do I know that?

ESIC's own notice of 09-09-2026 records a candidate "selected through AIIMS CRE-2025 vide Notice No. 278/2025 dated 11.07.2025" for a Group 'C' post in ESIC.

Is there a shorthand test?

Stenographer posts are normally tested on shorthand as well as a written paper, but the terms are in the AIIMS notice, not set by ESIC.

Where do the vacancy counts and cut-offs I've seen come from?

Not from ESIC. It has published no vacancy table, pattern, syllabus or cut-off for this post. Check the AIIMS CRE notice instead.

What happens if I'm selected and decline?

Your candidature is cancelled, and ESIC won't correspond about it further.