DoPT's instructions for strict compliance regarding age
relaxation for appointment of widows, divorced woman and woman
judicially separated from their husbands
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 Government Employees, Service Conditions, Protection against
exploitation, Incentives and other related issues -regarding.
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 the
Employment 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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