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No.41034/1/2014-Estt(D)
Government of
India
Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of
Personnel and Training)
North Block, New Delhi
- 110001
Dated-30.01.2014
OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Action
Taken on 62nd Report of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee
on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice on the
Status of Women GovernmentEmployees, Service Conditions, Protection
against exploitation, Incentives and other related issues -regarding.
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The undersigned is directed to refer to Para 20.1
and Para 20.2 of the 62nd Report of the Department Related Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice wherein,
the Committee has drawn attention to extant instructions of the Government on
age relaxation for appointment of widows, divorced woman and woman judicially
separated from their husbands and who were not remarried allowing age
concession up to the age of 35 years (40 years for member of SCs/STs) for the
post of Group 'C'and erstwhile Group 'D' filled through SSC/Employment
Exchange and has directed scrupulous compliance of these instructions
by all administrative authorities.
2. The Department of Personnel and Training's O.M. No.
15012/13/79- Estt.(D) dated 19.1.1980 provides that for purposes of appointment
to Group C and D posts under the Central Govt. filled through the SSC and
theEmployment Exchange, the upper age limit in the case of widows, divorced
women and women judicially separated from their husbands who are not remarried
shall be relaxed upto the age of 35 years (upto 40 years for members of
Scheduled Castes/Schedules Tribes) by invoking the provisions in the
relevant recruitment rules, subject to production of a certified copy
of the judgement/decree of the appropriate court to prove the fact of divorce
or the judicial separation, as the case may be (provided through DoP&T O.M.
No. 15012/1/82-Estt.(D) dated 06.09.1983) . Further, this relaxation has been
extended to Group 'A' & 'B' posts except where recruitment is
made through open competitive examination vide DoP&T O.M. No.
15012/1/87-Estt.(D) dated 05.10.1990.
3. All
Ministries/Departments are requested to bring these instructions to the notice
of all concerned including attached and subordinate offices for strict
compliance.
sd/-
(Arunoday Goswami)
Under Secretary to the
Govt. of lndia
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