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A.P. government in a fix over age relaxation for jobs

HYDERABAD: As the process of recruitment for over 8,000 posts in different departments has got under way, the Andhra Pradesh 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, raising the maximum age limit to 38 for candidates in the general category.

Officials are now assessing the impact of the decision on candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Backward Classes, physically-challenged 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-challenged 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 and physically-challenged candidates up to the age of 48 can appear for the written examination and the 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.

But, under the existing procedures, the relaxation of upper age limit is subject to a maximum of 40 years in case of candidates hailing from BC communities and 45 years for SCs and STs. “Given the existing norms, there is no option other than lifting the ceiling on the upper age limit,” a senior official told The Hindu.

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

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