UPSC Exam: SCRA Exam 2013 Notification issued- Part 2
3. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS:
(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 India
before 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, East African
countries of Kenya, Uganda, The United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi,
Zaire, 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 to him by the Government of India.
(II) Age Limits:
(a) A candidate must
have attained the age of 17 years and must not have attained the age of 21
years on 1st January, 2013, i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd
January, 1992 and not later than 1st January, 1996.
(b) The upper age
limit is relaxable as follows :–
(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 Services 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
January, 2013 and have been released (1) on completion of assignment (including
those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1st
January, 2013) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct
or inefficiency, or (2) on account of physical disability attributable to
Military Service, or (3) 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 Service as on 1st January, 2013
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 that they will be released on three month's notice on selection
from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
vii) Upto a maximum
of 10 years in the case of Orthopaedically handicapped persons, OA & OL
subcategories only.
NOTE I- Canddidates
belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backwared
Classes who are also covered under any other
clauses of para 3
(II) (b) above, viz. those coming under the category of Ex- Servicemen, persons
domiciled in the State of J & K,
physically handicapped etc. will be eligible for grant of cumulative age-reaxation
under both the categories.
NOTE II-The term
Ex-Servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as exservicemen in the
Ex-servicemen (Reemployment in Civil Services and Posts)
Rules, 1979, as
amended from time to time.
NOTE III-The age concession
under Para 3 (II) (b) (v) to (vi) will not be admissible to Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned
officers including ECOs/SSCOs, who are released on their own request.
NOTE IV-
Notwithstanding the provision of age relaxation under Para 3(II)(b)(vii) above,
a physically handicapped candidate will be considered to be eligible for appointment
if he/she (after such physical examination as the Government or appointing
authority, as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the
requirements of physical and medical standards for the concerned Services/Posts
to be allocated to the physically handicapped candidates by the Government.
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 oran equivalent
examination certificate.
These certificates
are required to be submitted only after the declaration of the result of the
written part of the examination.
No other document
relating to age like horo-scopes, affidavits, birth extracts from Municipal
Corporation, service records and the like will be accepted.
The expression
Matriculation/Higher 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/ Higher Secondary Examination Certificate or an
equivalent certificate as on the date of submission of applications 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 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 :- The candidates should exercise due care while
entering their date of birth. 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) Educational Qualifications:
For admission to the
examination a candidate– (a) must have passed in the first or second division, the Intermediate or an equivalent
Examination of a University
or Board approved by
the Government of India with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects
Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination.
Graduates with
Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as their
degree subjects may also apply; or
(b) must have passed
in the first or second division, the Higher Secondary (12 years) Examination
under 10 plus 2 pattern of School Education with Mathematics and at least one
of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination; or
(c) must have passed
the first year Examination under the three year degree course of a University
or the first examination of the three year diploma course in Rural Service of
the National Council for Rural Higher Education or the third year
Examination for
promotion to the 4th year of the four year B.A./B.Sc. (Evening
College) Course of the Madras University with Mathematics and at least one of
the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination provided that
before joining the degree/ diploma course he/she passed the Higher Secondary Examination
or the Pre-University or equivalent examination in the first or second
division.
Candidates who have
passed the first/second year examination under the three-year degree course in
the first or second division with Mathematics and either Physics or Chemistry
as subjects of the Examination may also apply; provided the first/ second year
examination is conducted by a
University; or (d) must have passed in
the first or second division the Pre-Engineering Examination of a University,
approved by the Government of India; or
(e) must have passed
in the first or second division the Pre-Professional/ Pre-Technological
Examination of any Indian University or a recognised Board, with Mathematics
and at least, one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the
examination conducted one year after the Higher Secondary or Pre-University stage;
or
(f) must have passed
the first year examination under the five year Engineering Degree Course of a University;
provided that before joining the Degree Course, he/she passed the Higher
Secondary Examination or pre-University or equivalent
Examination in the
first or second division. Candidates who have passed the first
year Examination of
the five-year Engineering Degree Course in the first or second division may
also apply provided the first year Examination is conducted by a University; or
(g) must have passed
in the first or second division the Pre-Degree Examination of the Universities
of Kerala and Calicut
with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as
subjects of the Examination.
Note I : Candidates
who are not awarded any specific division by the University/ Board either in
the intermediate or any other Examination mentioned above will be considered
educationally eligible provided their aggregate of marks falls within the range
of marks for first or second division as prescribed by the University/Board
concerned.
Note II : Candidates
who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them
eligible to appear at the Examination but have not been informed of the
results, may apply for admission to the examination.
Candidates who intend
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 along with the detailed applications which will be
required to be submitted by the candidates who qualify on the results of the
written part of the Examination.
Note III : 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/she possesses qualifications the standard of which in the opinion of the
Commission, justifies his/her admission to the Examination.
Note IV: Diplomas in
Engineering awarded by the State Boards of Technical Education are not
acceptable for admission to the Special Class Railway Apprentices’ Examination.
(IV) Physical Standards:
Candidates must be
physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Special Class
Railway Apprentices, Examination, 2013 as per Regulations given in Appendix-II
of the rules for the Special Class Railway Apprentices, Examination, 2013
published in Gazette of India dated 13th October, 2012.
