Age Limit Details - Staff Selection Commission CHSL Examination

Age Limit: 18-27 years as on 01.01.2017 (Candidates born not before 02-01-1990 and not later than 01-01-1999).

Permissible relaxation of Upper age limit for different categories are as under:

Ex-servicemen who have already secured employment in civil side under Central Government in Group ‘C’ posts on regular basis after availing of the benefits of reservation given to ex-servicemen 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 selfdeclaration/ 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. 

For any serviceman of the three Armed Forces of the Union to be treated as Ex-Serviceman for the purpose of securing the benefits of reservation, he must have already acquired, at the relevant time of submitting his application for the Post / Service, the status of ex-serviceman and /or is in a position to establish his acquired entitlement by documentary evidence from the competent authority that he would complete specified term of engagement with the Armed Forces within the stipulated period of one year from the Closing Date (i.e. 07.11.2016), or otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency.

Explanation: An 'ex-serviceman' means a person –

(i) who 'has served in any rank whether as a combatant or noncombatant in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of the India 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) (i) 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.
Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces, i.e. only those who are due for release from the Army during the period 08.11.2016 to 07.11.2017 are eligible for age-relaxation. Such candidates are not entitled to any concession in fee.
Such candidates will be eligible to compete only for vacancies in Armed Forces Headquarters and Inter-Service Organisation, which are not reserved for Ex-servicemen, in their order of merit and subject to availability of vacancies.
As per Supreme Court direction dated 24.02.1995 in Appeal No.731-69 of 1994, Age relaxation will be available for Group-‘C’ posts in the O/o RGI(Registrar General of India) for retrenched Census employees as under
(i)Age relaxation by 3 years plus length of service rendered by them in connection with census, before retrenchment ,
(ii) Weight age of past service.
7. 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 when such certificates are sought by concerned Regional/Sub Regional Offices at the time of Skill Test/Document Verification. Otherwise, their claim for SC/ST/OBC/ PH/EXs status will not be entertained and their candidature/applications will be considered under General (UR) category. The formats of the certificates are available on our website. Certificates obtained in any other format will not be accepted.
Certificate in the prescribed format for Creamy Layer Status for OBC candidates issued between 08.11.2013 and upto 06.05.2017 only will be accepted. Candidates are warned that they will be permanently debarred from the examinations conducted by the Commission in case they fraudulently
claim SC/ST/OBC/ExS/PH status.
Candidates are warned that they may be permanently debarred from the examinations conducted by the Commission in case they fraudulently claim SC/ST/OBC/Ex-S/PH status.
Visually handicapped (VH) with disabilities of forty percent (40%) or above, and orthopedically handicapped candidates afflicted by Cerebral Palsy can avail the assistance of a scribe in the written examination and passage reader for Skill Test, subject to such requests being made in the application form. Question Papers and Answer Sheets will not be provided in Braille.
In addition to above, the orthopedically handicapped candidate (other than a candidate afflicted by Cerebral Palsy) who has a loco motor disability (40% or more) wherein dominant writing extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the performance of the candidate (such deficiency may either be indicated in the medical certificate submitted by the candidate or else is visible and which after due verification by the Regional Director/Deputy Director concerned is found to be legitimate and bonafide), can also avail the assistance of a scribe and a compensatory time of 20 minute per hour in the written examination, subject to such requests being made in the application form.
As per Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment’s Notification No 34-02/2015-DD-III dated 06.02.2015, the reservation in appointment is not available for multiple disabilitycategory.
No attendant will be allowed with such candidates inside the examination premises.
Provision of Compensatory Time : The Visually Handicapped/ orthopedically handicapped candidates afflicted by Cerebral Palsy and the orthopedically handicapped candidate (other than a candidate afflicted by Cerebral Palsy) who has a loco motor disability (40% or more) wherein dominant writing extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the performance of the candidate (such deficiency may either be indicated in the medical certificate submitted by the candidate or else is visible and which after due verification by the Regional Director/Deputy
Director concerned is found to be legitimate and bonafide), will be allowed compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour in the Computer based written examination the details of which are given in para 12 under the Heading “Scheme of Examination.”
Persons with visual disability of less than forty percent will not be considered as visually handicapped persons for availing reservation for VH wherever such reservation is applicable.
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 Magnifying Glass 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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