Eligibility Conditions

 

(i) Age limits :

21-30 years as on 1.8.2009 (for 2009 exam). (Upper age limit relaxable for SCs/Sts, OBCs and certain other categories as specified in the  Notice).

(ii) Educational Qualifications :

Degree in Engineering or equivalent in any discipline, M.Sc Degree or its equivalent with Wireless Communication, Electronics, Radio Physics or Radio Engineering as a special subject also acceptable for certain posts. (See Notice in the Employment News).

Age Relaxation

Code No.

Category

Extent of Age Relaxation Permissible

01

SC and ST

 

 

5 years

02

OBC

 

 

3 years

03

Certain categories of Departmentalal Government servants who are covered under Commission’s Notice published in Employment News

 

 

5 years

04

Departmental Government Servants     

+ SC/ST

 

10 years

05

Departmental Government Servants

+ OBC

 

8 years

06

Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons.

 

 

10 years

07

Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons

+ SC/ST

 

15 years

08

Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons

+ OBC

 

13 years

09

Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons

 

+Departmental Govt. Servants

15 years

10

Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons

+ SC/ST

+Departmental Govt. Servants

20 years

11

Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons

+ OBC

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

18 years

12

Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof.

 

 

3 years

13

Defence Services Personnel

+ SC/ST

 

8 years

14

Defence Services Personnel

+ OBC

 

6 years

15

Defence Services Personnel

 

+ Departmental Govt.Servants

8 years

16

Defence Services

+ SC/ST

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

13 years

17

Defence Services Personnel

+ OBC

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

11 years

18

Ex-Servicemen including Commissioned offices and ECOs/ SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st August 2009(for 2009 exam) and have been released (i) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1st August, 2009(for 2009 exam)) 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.

 

 

5 years

19

Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs

+ SC/ST

 

10 years

20

Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs

+ OBC

 

8 years

21

Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs

 

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

10 years

22

Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers Servants and ECOs/SSCOs

+ SC/ST

+ Departmental Govt.

15 years

23

Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs

+ OBC

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

13 years

24

ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as on 1st August, 2009(for 2009 exam) 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 months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.

 

 

5 years

25

ECOs/SSCOs

+ SC/ST

 

10 years

26

ECOs/SSCOs

+ OBC

 

8 years

27

ECOs/SSCOs

 

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

10 years

28

ECOs/SSCOs

+ SC/ST

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

15 years

29

ECOs/SSCOs

+ OBC

+Departmental Govt. Servants

13 years

30

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1st January, 1980 to 31st December, 1989

 

 

5 years

31

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K

+ SC/ST

 

10 years

32

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K

+ OBC

 

8 years

33

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K

 

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

10 years

34

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K

+ ST/CT

+ Departmental Govt. Servants

15 years

35

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K

+ OBC

+ Departmental Govt.Servants

13 years

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