SSC Combined Recruitment 2016: Age limit & Relaxation

SSC Combined Recruitment 2016: Age limit & Relaxation

STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION

Date of Exam: 19-06-2016

Closing Date: 28-04-2016 (upto 5.00 P.M.) for Part-I Registration 

and 30-04-2016 (upto 5.00 P.M.)for Part-II Registration

5 (A) AGE LIMIT : Not exceeding 30 years as on 01.01.2016.

Candidate should note that the Date of Birth as recorded in the Matriculation / Secondary Examination Certificate or an equivalent certificate only, available on the date of submission of application will be accepted by the Commission for determining the Age eligibility and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or granted.

5 (B) Permissible relaxation of Upper age limit prescribed under para 5(A) above. Category codes for claiming age relaxation as on 01-01-2016:-

Code No.	Category	Age Relaxation permissible beyond the Upper age limit.
01	SC/ST	5 years
02	OBC	3 years
03	PH	10 years
04	PH + OBC	13 years
05	PH + SC/ST	15 years
06	Ex-Servicemen( Unreserved/General )	03 years after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the Closing date for receipt of application
07	Ex-Servicemen (OBC)	06 years(3 years + 3 years) after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the Closing date for receipt of application
08	Ex-Servicemen (SC & ST)	08years(3 years + 5 years) after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the Closing date for receipt of application
12	Central Govt. Civilian Employees(General/Unrese rved) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of application	5 years
13	Central Govt. Civilian Employees (OBC)) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of application	8 (5 +3) years
14	Central Govt. Civilian Employees(SC/ST) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of application	10(5+5) years
21	Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir(Unreserved/Gener al)	5 years
22	Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir(OBC)	8 years
23	Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( SC/ST)	10 years
27	Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof.( Unreserved/General)	5 years
28	Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof.( OBC)	8 (5+3) years
29	Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof( SC/ST)	10 (5+5) years

Ex-servicemen who have already secured employment in civil side under Central Government in Group „C‟ & „D‟ posts on regular basis after availing of the benefits of reservation given to exservicemen for their re-employment are NOT eligible for fee concession. However, he/she can avail of the benefit of reservation as ex-serviceman for subsequent employment if he/she immediately, after joining civil employment, gives self-declaration/undertaking to the concerned employer about the date-wise details of application for various vacancies for which he/she had applied for before joining the initial civil employment as mentioned in the OM NO. 36034/1/2014-Estt (Res) dated 14.08.2014 issued by DOP&T.

The period of "Call up Service" of an Ex-Serviceman in the Armed Forces shall also be treated as service rendered in the Armed Forces for purpose of age relaxation, as per rules.

An ex-serviceman means a person:-

(i) who has served in any rank whether as a combatant or non combatant in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of the Indian Union, and

(a) who either has been retired or relieved or discharged from such service whether at his own request or being relieved by the employer after earning his or her pension, or

(b) who has been relieved from such service on medical grounds attributable to military service or circumstances beyond his control and awarded medical or other disability pension; or

(c) who has been released from such service as a result of reduction in establishment. or

(ii) who has been released from such service after completing the specific period of engagement, otherwise than at his own request, or by way of dismissal, or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency and has been given a gratuity, and includes personnel of the Territorial Army, namely pension holders for continuous embodied service or broken spells of qualifying service. or

(iii) personnel of the Army Postal Service who are part of Regular Army and retired from the Army Postal Service without reversion to their parent service with pension, or are released from the Army Postal service on medical grounds attributable to or aggravated by military service or circumstance beyond their control and awarded medical or other disability pension. or

(iv) Personnel, who were on deputation in Army Postal Service for more than six months prior to the 14th April, 1987. or

(v) Gallantry award winners of the Armed forces including personnel of Territorial Army. or

(vi) Ex-recruits boarded out or relieved on medical ground and granted medical disability pension.

AGE CONCESSION IS NOT ADMISSIBLE TO SONS, DAUGHTERS AND DEPENDENTS OF EX-SERVICEMEN. 

6. Process of certification and format of certificates.

Candidates who wish to be considered against vacancies reserved or seek age-relaxation must submit requisite certificate from the competent authority, in the prescribed format, whenever such certificates are sought by concerned Regional/Sub Regional Offices at the time of Document Verification. Otherwise, their claim for SC/ ST/ OBC/ PH (PWD)/ ExS status will not be entertained and their candidature/ applications will be considered under General (UR) category. The formats of the certificates are annexed. Certificates in any other format will not be accepted. OBC certificate in the creamy layer status should have been obtained within three years before the closing date for receipt of application. The Commission has also decided to accept OBC certificate in prescribed format issued after the closing date of receipt of application but issued upto 180 days after the closing date. Accordingly, the OBC certificate issued between 01.05.2013 and upto 27.10.2016 only will be accepted. In case date of issuance of OBC certificate is before 01.05.2013 or after 27.10.2016, the candidate will simply be treated as unreserved (UR) candidate.

Candidates are warned that they may be permanently debarred from the examination conducted by the Commission in case they fraudulently claim SC/ST/OBC/ExS/PH (PWD) status

Visually handicapped (VH) candidates with visual disabilities of forty percent and above and cerebral palsy candidates can avail the assistance of Scribe to be provided by the Commission in the written examination subject to such request of scribe being made in the application form.

No attendant will be allowed with candidates inside the examination hall.

Provision of Compensatory Time: The Visually Handicapped/cerebral palsy candidates will be allowed compensatory time in the examination, the details of which are given in para 11 under the Heading “Scheme of Examination.”

Persons with visual disability of less than forty percent will not be considered as visually handicapped persons. One eyed candidates and partially blind candidates who are able to read the normal Question Paper set for all the candidates with or without magnifying glass and who wish to write/indicate the answer with the help of Magnifying Glass will be allowed to use the same in the Examination Hall and will not be entitled to a Scribe. Such candidates will have to bring their own Magnifying Glass to the Examination Hall.

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