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Consolidated orders on relaxation in upper age limit allowed to various categories of government servants- regarding

No. 15012/2/2010-Estt.(D) 
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
New Delhi, dated the 27th March, 2012

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Consolidated orders on relaxation in upper age limit allowed to various categories of government servants- regarding

The undersigned is directed to invite attention to this Department’s Notification No. 2/101/72-Estt(D) dated 07.03.1974 and to say that since then a number of instructions allowing relaxation in upper age to Central government servants for recruitment to various categories of posts under the Central government have been issued. For the facility of reference and guidance, the content of the important/relevant O.M’s/orders on the subject have been consolidated. The number and date of original O.M.’s have been referred under each category for easy reference to the context.

S. No.
Category of Persons to whom age concession is admissible and
O.M./Notification No.
Categories
of posts to which the age concession
is admissible
Extent of Age Concession
1.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Notification No.
2/101/72-Estt(D)
dated
07.03.1974

All
posts filled by Direct Recruitment
5 years
2.
Other Backward Class

O.M. No. 43013/2/95-Estt.
(SCT) dated

25.01.1995

O.M. No. 36012/22/93-Estt.(SCT) dated
22.10.1993

All posts
filled by Direct Recruitment
3 years
3.
Persons with disabilities

No. 43019/28/86-Estt.(D) dated
01.02.1999
read with
O.M.  No.  36035/3/2004-
Estt(Res.) dated 29.12.2005

(i)    
In case of
Direct Recruitment to Group
‘C’ and erstwhile Group ‘D’ (now MTS) posts 
(ii)  
In case of recruitment to Group ‘A’ and
Group ‘B’ posts through Open competitive examination
10 years
SC/ST Persons with disabilities
15 years
OBC Persons with disabilities
13 years
Persons with disabilities

In case of direct recruitment to Group ‘A’
and Group ‘B’ where recruitment
 is
made otherwise than through open
competitive examination
5 years
SC/ST Persons with disabilities
10 years
OBC Persons with disabilities
8 years
4.
Retrenched Central Government Employee

Notification No.
2/101/72-Estt(D)
dated
07.03.1974

For posts filled otherwise than through UPSC on the basis of
competitive tests, i.e. filled through employment
exchange
Period of previous service under
the Govt. of India
plus three years
5.
Whole Time Cadet Instructors in NCC
For the purpose of  appointment
to the posts, recruitment to
which is made through the
Employment exchange
Period of service rendered
in
NCC plus three years
(a) who were released from NCC after the expiry of their
initial/ extended
tenure

Notification No.
2/101/72-Estt(D)
dated
07.03.1974

(b) who were released form NCC
before the expiry of their initial/extended tenure

Notification No.
2/101/72-Estt(D)
dated
07.03.1974

– do –
Period of service rendered in NCC,
plus three years provided they
have served in NCC for a period of
not less than six months prior
to their release from NCC
6.
Ex-General Reserve Engineer Force Personnel

O.M. No. 4/10/64-Estt(D) dated 26.10.1964
Notification No.
2/101/72-Estt(D)
dated
07.03.1974
For posts filled otherwise than through UPSC on the basis of
competitive tests, i.e. filled through Employment exchange
Period of Service in GREF plus
3 years
7.
Territorial Army
Personnel who have service on the permanent staff of Territorial Army Unit or
have been embodied for service under
T.A.
Rule 33 for a continuous period of not less than six months.
O.M. No. 4/6/64-Estt(D) dated 11.02.1965 and
Notification No. 2/101/1972-Estt(D) dated
7.3.1974
For post filled otherwise
than through UPSC on the basis of competitive tests i.e. for posts filled through Employment Exchange
Entire Period of embodied service including broken period in
the Territorial Army plus three years
8. Ex-Servicemen
Notification No.
39016/10/1979-
Estt. (c) dated 15.12.1979
Group
C & erstwhile D posts
Period
of Military service plus 3 years
9.
Disabled Defence services personnel

O.M.  No.  14/42/65-Estt(D)  dated
29.03.1966 and O.M. No. 13/35/71- Estt.(C) dated
24.12.1971
O.M.  No.  39016/5/1981-Estt.(C)  dated
21.02.1981

(a)
Group C & erstwhile D posts filled through
Employment Exchange
45
years (50 years of SC/ST)
(b) Group A & B posts filled otherwise than through
Competitive Examination by UPSC
45
years (50 years of SC/ST)
(c) All posts filled  by Competitive examination
3 years ( 8 years
for SC/ST) subject to the condition  that they would not be
allowed to avail of a larger number
of chances in respect 
of recruitment to a
service, or group of services, than the maximum
number  of chances permissible
to any  general candidate
 under the age limit.
10.
Ex-personnel of
Army Medical Corps (Short
Service regular Commissioned Officer)
All posts requiring Medical qualification
35 years
11.
Ex-servicemen ECO/SSCO

O.M.  No.  39016/15/79-Estt.(
 C)  dated

07.09.1981

O.M.  No.  36034/8/88-Estt.(SCT)  dated
19.05.1988

Group
A & B Posts Services/posts filled by direct recruitment otherwise than  on a result of any open All India competitive
examination held by UPSC subject to the condition that (i) the continuous service
rendered in the Armed Forces by an exservicemen is not less than six months
after attestation (ii) resultant age after deducting his age does not exceed
the prescribed age limit by more than three years and (iii) condition prescribed
in O.M. No. 39016/10/79- Esst.(C) dated 15.12.1979
Military service plus three years
For
appointment to any vacancy in Group A and Group B Services/posts filled by
direct recruitment on the results of an All India Competitive Examination held
by UPSC, ex-service and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered
atleast 5 years military service and have been released on completion of assignment
(including those whose assignment is due to be completed within 6 months) otherwise
than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of physical disability attributable
to military service or on invalidment.
Five years
12.
Departmental
Candidates
with three years continuous service in
Central Government

O.M. 
No.  15012/1/88-Esst.(D) 
dated
30.01.1980
O.M. 
No.  15012/1/88-Esst.(D) 
dated
20.05.1988

For
appointment to
Group ‘C’ and erstwhile  ‘D’ (now MTS posts) by direct
recruitment which are in the same line  or allied cadres
Up to 40 years of age (45 years for SC/ST)
O.M. No. 
 15012/8/87-Estt.(D)
dated
15.10.1987

O.M. 
No.  35014/4/79-Esst.(D) 
dated

Group
A and Group B posts
filled through UPSC (other than those filled on the basis of
competitive examination) and  posts which  are exempted  from purview   of
UPSC (where recruitment  is made  by organisation themselves)
5 years (for posts which are in
the same

line  or allied
cadres and where a relationship could  
 be established  that the   service already
 rendered in a  particular post   will  be useful
for the efficient discharge of the duties of post

13.
Widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands and who are not re-married

O.M. No.   15012/1/82-Estt.(D)
dated
06.09.1983

Group ‘C’
and erstwhile Group ‘D’ posts under the Central
Government filled through Staff Selection Commission and Employment exchange
Up to the age of 35 years
(up to 40 years for
members  of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) but no
relaxation  of educational qualification or method  of
recruitment
Group
‘A’ and ‘B’ posts except where recruitment is made through open competitive examination
14.
Meritorious Sportspersons

No. 15012/3/84-Estt.(D) dated 12.11.1987

All Group of Civil posts/Services under
the Government  of India filled otherwise
than through Competitive examinations conducted  by UPSC
Up to 5 years (10 years for SC/ST candidates)
15.
Persons who had ordinarily been
domiciled in the State of Jammu
and Kashmir during the period 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989
GSR 208(E) dated 10th
April 1997
GSR 919(E) dated 20th 
December 2001
GSR 707(E) dated 6th December 2005
GSR 761(E) dated 7th December, 2007

GSR 839(E) dated 23rd
 November 2009
For recruitment to all Central
Civil Services and Posts made
through UPSC or SSC  or otherwise by Central Government till 31.12.2013
Upper age-limit relaxable
by five years subject to maximum number of chances
permissible under the
relevant rules

2. For the purposes of the above mentioned age concessions:

i. “a retrenched Central Government employee” means a person who was employed under the Government of India for a continuous period of not less than six months prior to this retrenchment and was discharged as a result of the recommendation of the Economy Unit or due to normal reduction in establishment;
ii. “a whole-time Cadet instructor in NCC” means a person who was recruited as a whole-time cadet instructor in NCC on or after 01.01.1963;
iii. “Ex-GREF personnel” means a person who was employed in that Force at least a continuous period for not less than six months and who was released from that Force on completion of his tenure of Service.
iv. “disabled ex-servicemen” means ex-serviceman who while serving in the Armed Forces of the Union was disabled in operations against the enemy or in disturbed areas;
v. “Ex-servicemen” means a person, who has served in any rank (whether as a combatant or an non-combatant), in the Armed Forces of the Union, including the Armed Forces of the former Indian States, but excluding the Assam Rifles, Defence Security Corps, General Reserve Engineering Force, Lok Sahayak Sena and Territorial Army, for a continuous period of not less than six months after attestation, and (i) has been released, otherwise than at his own request or by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or has been transferred to the reserve pending such release, or (iii) has been released at his own request after completing five years service in the Armed Forces of the Union.
3. These instructions are applicable only to Central Government Civilian Employees holding Civil posts and are not applicable to personnel working in autonomous/statutory bodies, Public Sector under taking etc. which are governed by regulations/statute issued by the concerned administrative Ministries/Departments. In certain cases the benefit of age relaxation was allowed to a specified category of personnel for a limited period. The validity of relaxation in such cases will be for the period specified in the original instructions or as amended from time to time.
4. In case of recruitment through the UPSC and the Staff Selection Commission(SSC), the crucial date for determining the age-limit shall be as advertised by UPSC/SSC. The crucial date for determining age for competitive examination held by UPSC/SSC is fixed as per the instructions in this Department’s O.M. No. 42013/1/79-Estt.(D) dated 04.12.1979 and O.M. No. AB.14017/70/87-Esst.(RR) dated 14.07.1988.
5. A government servant is not allowed any relaxation of age for recruitment to Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ post on the basis of competitive examination held by the Commission except in cases where it has been specifically provided for in the scheme of the examinations approved in consultation with the Commission(O.M. No. 4/4/74-Estt.(D) dated 09.04.1981).
6. The upper age-limit for recruitment by the method of Direct Open Competitive to the Central Civil Services and civil posts specified in the relevant service/recruitment rules on the date of commencement of the Central Civil Services and Civil posts (Upper Age-limit for Direct Recruitment) Rules 1998, shall be increased by two years (Notification No. 15012/6/98- Estt.(D) dated 21.12.1998). The “Direct Open Competitive Examination” for the purpose of these rules shall mean direct recruitment by Open Competitive Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission or the Staff Selection Commission or any other authority under the Central Government and it shall not include recruitment through Limited Departmental Examination or through shortlisting or by absorption or transfer or deputation.
8. Copies of previous O.M’s referred are available at this Department’s website www.persmin.nic.in (www.persmin.nic.in>O.Ms & Orders > Establishment > (A) Administration > (ll) Establishment > (g) Age relaxation)
9. This may be brought to the notice of all concerned for information, guidance and necessary action.
10. Hindi version will follow.

Source/Order: www.persmin.nic.in

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