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State in a fix over age relaxation for jobs


New rule may make many 40-plus persons also eligible

HYDERABAD: As the process of recruitment for over 8,000 posts in
different departments has got under way, the State Government has
landed in a piquant situation over age relaxation applicable to the
aspirants for various posts.

Against the norm of calculating 26 years as the base age for
recruitment to gazetted and 28 years to non-gazetted posts, successive
Governments relaxed the maximum age limit enabling those under 34 to
secure jobs.

The present Government has, in principle, decided to relax the upper
age limit by four more years for fresh recruitments on the lines of
the procedures followed in 1998 and 2003.

Officials are now assessing the impact of the decision on candidates
belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Backward Classes,
physically-handicapped and ex-servicemen categories.

Under the normal course, five years relaxation over and above the
maximum age limit is permissible for SC/ST/BC candidates, 10 years for
physically-handicapped and three years for ex-servicemen and NCC
candidates.

This will result in a situation where SC/ST/BC candidates up to the
age of 43 years and physically-challenged candidates up to the age of
48 can appear for the written examination and interview for
recruitment.

The situation turns more complex in cases where physically-challenged
candidates belonging to SC/ST/BC communities claim relaxation under
both the categories.

According to the official, a decision on scrapping the ceiling would
be announced shortly.

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