(I)
Nationality:
A candidate
must be either:
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to Indian before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling
in India, or
(e) a person
of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East
African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia,
Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of permanently
settling in India.
Provided
that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall
be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by
the Government of India.
A candidate
in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to
the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary
eligibility certificate has been issued by the Government of India.
(II)
Age Limits:
(a) A candidate
for this examination must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have
attained the age of 30 years on the 1st August, of the current year
(b) The
upper age-limit of 30 years will be relaxable upto 35 years in the case of
Government servants of the following categories, if they are employed in a
Department/Office under the control of any of the authorities mentioned in
column 1 below and apply for admission to the examination for all or any of
the Service(s)/Posts mentioned in column 2, for which they are otherwise eligible.
(i) A candidate
who holds substantively a permanent post in the particular Department/Office
concerned. This relaxation will not be admissible to a probationer appointed
against a permanent post in the Department/Office during the period of his
probation.
(ii) A candidate who has been continuously in a temporary service
on a regular basis in the particular Department/Office for at least 3 years
on the 1st August, of current year.
| Column 1 |
Column 2 |
| Railway Department |
I.R.S.E.
I.R.S.M.E.
I.R.S.E.E.
I.R.S.S.E.
I.R.S.S. |
| Central Public Works Department |
C.E.S.—Group ‘A’
C.E. & M.E.S., Group ‘A’ |
| Engineer-in-Chief, Army Headquarters |
M.E.S. Group A (IDSE B & R Cadre),M.E.S. Group A (IDSE—E.
& M. Cadre) |
| Directorate General Ordnance Factories |
I.O.F.S. Group A |
| Central Water Commission |
C.W.E. Service (Group A) |
| Central Electricity Authority |
C.P.E. Service (Group A) |
| Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organisation |
Engineer (Group 'A')
|
| Indian Navy |
Indian Naval Armament Service,Assistant Naval Store Officer Grade
I |
| Border Roads Organisation |
Border Roads Engineering Service. |
| Geological Survey of India |
Drilling Engineer (Jr.) Gr. 'A' |
NOTE—The period of apprenticeship if followed by appointment against
a working posts on the Railways may be treated as Railway Service for the
purpose of age concession.
(c)
The upper age-limit prescribed above will be further relaxable—
(i) Upto
a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled
Tribe;
(ii) Upto
a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward
Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates.
(iii) Upto
a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the
State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the
1st January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989.
(iv) Upto
a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Service personnel disabled
in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed
area, and released as a consequence thereof;
(v) Upto
a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned
Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service
as on 1st August, and have been released (i) on completion of assignment (including
those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1st August,
) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct
or inefficiency, or (ii) on account of physical disability attributable to
Military Service or (iii) on invalidment;
(vi) Upto
a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial
period of assignment of five years of Military Services as on 1st August, and
whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the
Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment
and they will be released on three months notice on selection from the date
of receipt of offer of appointment.
(vii) Upto
a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically
handicapped persons.
N.B.—The candidature of
a person who is admitted to the examination under the age concession mentioned
in Para 3(II)(b) above shall be cancelled if, after submitting his application
he resigns from service or his services are terminated by his department/office
either before or after taking the examination. He will, however, continue
to be eligible if he is retrenched from the Service or post after submitting
his application. A candidate who after submitting his application to the department
is transferred to other department/office will be eligible to compete under
departmental age concession provided his application
has been forwarded by his parent department.
SAVE AS
PROVIDED ABOVE THE AGE LIMITS PRESCRIBED CAN IN NO CASE BE RELAXED.
The date
of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation or
Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a certificate recognised by an
Indian University as equivalent to matriculation or in an extract from a Register
of matriculates maintained by a University, which extract must be certified
by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an
equivalent examination certificate. These certificates are required to be
submitted along with the detailed applications which will be required to be
submitted by the candidates who qualify on the result of the written part
of the examination.
No other
document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extracts from
Municipal Corporation, service records and the like will be accepted.
The expression
Matriculation/Secondary Examination Certificate in this part of the instruction
includes the alternative certificates mentioned above.
NOTE
1:- CANDIDATES SHOULD NOTE THAT ONLY THE DATE OF BIRTH AS RECORDED
IN THE MATRICULATION/SECONDARY EXAMINATION CERTIFICATE OR AN EQUIVALENT CERTIFICATE
ON THE DATE OF SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSION
AND NO SUBSEQUENT REQUEST FOR ITS CHANGE WILL BE CONSIDERED OR GRANTED.
NOTE
2:- CANDIDATES SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT ONCE A DATE OF BIRTH HAS BEEN
CLAIMED BY THE THEM AND ENTERED IN THE RECORDS OF THE COMMISSION FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ADMISSION TO AN EXAMINATION, NO CHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED SUBSEQUENTLY (OR
AT ANY OTHER EXAMINATION OF THE COMMISSION) ON ANY GROUNDS WHATSOEVER.
NOTE 3. CANDIDATES SHOULD EXERCISE DUE CARE WHILE
ENTERING THEIR DATE OF BIRTH IN COLUMN 8 OF THE APPLICATION FORM. IF ON VERIFICATION
AT ANY SUBSEQUENT STAGE, ANY VARIATION IS FOUND IN THEIR DATE OF BIRTH FROM
THE ONE ENTERED IN THEIR MATRICULATION OR EQUIVALENT EXAMINATION CERTIFICATE,
DISCIPLINARY ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST THEM BY THE COMMISSION UNDER THE
RULES.
(III)
Minimum Educational Qualification:
For
admission to the examination, a candidate must have—
(a) obtained
a degree in Engineering from a University incorporated by an Act of the Central
or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutions established
by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as Universities under Section
3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956; or
(b) passed Section A and B of the Institution Examinations of the
Institution of Engineers (India); or
(c) obtained
a degree/diploma in Engineering from such foreign University/College/Institution
and under such conditions as may be recognised by the Government for the purpose
from time to time, or
(d) passed Graduate Membership Examination of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineers (India); or
(e) passed Associate Membership Examination Parts II and III/Sections
A and B of the Aeronautical Society of India; or
(f) passed Graduate Membership Examination of the Institution of
Electronics and Radio Engineers, London held after November,
1959.
Provided
that a candidate for the post of Indian Naval Armament Service (Electronics
Engineering Posts and Engineer Group 'A' in Wireless Planning and Coordination
Wing/Monitoring Organisation) may possess any of the above qualifications
or the qualification mentioned below namely:-
M.Sc. degree or its equivalent with Wireless Communication, Electronics,
Radio Physics or Radio Engineering as a special subject.
NOTE-1—A candidate who has
appeared at an examination the passing of which would render him educationally
qualified for this examination, but has not been informed of the result, may
apply for admission to the examination. A candidate who intends to appear
at such a qualifying examination may also apply. Such candidates will be admitted
to the examination, if otherwise eligible, but their admission would be deemed
to be provisional and subject to cancellation, if they do not produce proof
of having passed the requisite qualifying examination alongwith the detailed
applications which will be required to be submitted by the candidates who
qualify on the result of written part of the examination.
NOTE-2—In exceptional cases,
the Commission may treat a candidate, who has not any of the qualifications
prescribed in this rule, as educationally qualified provided that he has passed
examinations conducted by other institutions the standard of which in the
opinion of the Commission justifies his admission to the examination.
NOTE-3—A candidate who is
otherwise qualified but who has taken a degree from a foreign University which
is not recognised by Government, may also apply to the Commission and may
be admitted to the examination at the discretion of the Commission.
(iv) Physical standards
Candidates
must be physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Engineering
Services Examination, as per guidelines given in the rules for the Engineering
Services Examination
