This post is to know the eligibility, age relaxation and percentage of reservation for ex-servicemen in the exams conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) exam like the Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam, the Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Level (CHSL) Exam or any other exam.

Eligibility, Age Relaxation & % of Reservation for Ex-servicemen in SSC exams

RULES OF RESERVATION FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

1. For Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts, age relaxation up to a maximum of 5 years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/ SSCOs who have rendered at least 5 years Military Service as on closing date of receipt of applications and have been released:

a) On completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from the closing date of receipt of applications otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency; or

On account of physical disability attributable to Military Service; or

c) On invalidment

2. For the Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts, age relaxation up to a maximum of 5 years in the case of ECOs/ SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of 5 years of Military Service as on closing date of receipt of applications and whose assignment has been extended beyond 5 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 3 months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer
of appointment.

3. Ex-servicemen who have already secured employment in civil side under Central Government in Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ posts on regular basis after availing of the benefits of reservation given to ex-servicemen for their re-employment are NOT eligible for fee concession.

However, he can avail of the benefit of reservation as ex-serviceman for subsequent employment if he immediately, after joining civil employment, gives self- declaration/undertaking to the concerned employer about the date-wise details of application for various vacancies for which he had applied for before joining the initial civil employment as mentioned in the OM NO. 36034/1/2014-Estt (Res) dated 14.08.2014 issued by DoPT.

4. The period of ‘Call up Service’ of an Ex-Serviceman in the Armed Forces shall also be treated as service rendered in the Armed Forces for purpose of age relaxation, as per rules.

5. For any serviceman of the three Armed Forces of the Union to be treated as Ex-Serviceman for the purpose of securing the benefits of reservation, he must have already acquired, at the relevant time of submitting his application for the Post/Service, the status of ex-serviceman and/or is in a position to establish his acquired entitlement by documentary evidence from the competent authority that he would complete specified term of engagement from the Armed Forces within the stipulated period of one year from the CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATION or otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency.

Explanation: An ‘ex-serviceman’ means a person:

(i) Who ‘has served in any rank whether as a combatant or noncombatant in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of the India Union, and

a) who either has been retired or relieved or discharged from such service whether at his own request or being relieved by the employer after earning his or her pension; or

b) who has been relieved from such service on medical grounds attributable to military service or circumstances beyond his control and awarded medical or other disability pension; or

c) who has been released from such service as a result of reduction in establishment; or

(ii) who has been released from such service after completing the specific period of engagement, otherwise than at his own request, or by way of dismissal, or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency and has been given a gratuity; and includes personnel of the Territorial Army, namely, pension holders for continuous embodied service or broken spells of qualifying service; or

(iii) personnel of the Army Postal Service who are part of Regular Army and retired from the Army Postal Service without reversion to their parent service with pension, or are released from the Army Postal service on medical grounds attributable to or aggravated by military service or circumstance beyond their control and awarded medical or other disability pension; or

(iv) Personnel, who were on deputation in Army Postal Service for more than six months prior to the 14th April, 1988; or

(v) Gallantry award winners of the Armed forces including personnel of Territorial Army; or

(vi) Ex-recruits boarded out or relieved on medical ground and granted medical disability pension.

6. Age concession is not admissible to sons, daughters and dependents of Ex- Servicemen.

7. A Matriculate Ex-Serviceman (includes an Ex-Serviceman, who has obtained the Indian Army Special Certificate of education or corresponding certificate in the Navy or the Air Force), who has put in not less than 15 years of service as on 14.03.2016 with Armed Forces of the Union shall be considered eligible for appointment to the Group ‘C’ posts.

Thus, those Non-Graduate Ex-Servicemen who have not completed 15 years of service as on the closing date for receipt of application or would not complete 15 years of service within the time limit specified in Note-III are not eligible to apply for this examination.

6. Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces are eligible for age-relaxation. Such candidates are not entitled to any concession in fee. Such candidates will be eligible to compete only for vacancies in Armed Forces Headquarters and Inter-Service Organisation, which are not reserved for Ex-servicemen, in their order of merit and subject to availability of vacancies.

AGE RELAXATION FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

(For Group-B (Non-gazetted), Group-C & Group-D posts)

a) Ex-Servicemen (Unreserved/General): 03 years after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the Closing date for receipt of application

b) Ex-Servicemen (OBC): 06 years (3 years + 3 years) after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the Closing date for receipt of application

c) Ex-Servicemen (SC & ST): 08 years (3 years + 5 years) after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the Closing date for receipt of application

NOTE-I: For the Group-B (Gazetted posts), age relaxation up to a maximum of 5 years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/ SSCOs who have rendered at least 5 years Military Service as on closing date of receipt of applications and have been released;

a) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from the closing date of receipt of applications otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency; or
b) On account of physical disability attributable to Military Service; or
c) On invalidment

NOTE-II: For the Group-B (Gazetted posts), age relaxation up to a maximum of 5 years in the case of ECOs/ SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of 5 years of Military Service as on closing date of receipt of applications and whose assignment has been extended beyond 5 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 3 months notice selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment

HOW RESERVATION IS COUNTED FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

An Ex-Serviceman or Physically Handicapped (OH/HH/VH) category candidate who qualifies on the basis of relaxed standards viz. age limit, experience or qualifications, permitted number of chances in written examination, extended zone of consideration, etc. is to be counted against reserved vacancies and not against general vacancies subject to fitness of such candidate for selection.

Such candidates may also be recommended at the relaxed standards to the extent the number of vacancies reserved for them, to make up for the deficiency in the reserved quota, irrespective of their rank in the order of merit. In so far as cases of Ex- Serviceman are concerned, deduction from the age of Ex-Servicemen is permissible against the reserved or unreserved posts and such exemption cannot be termed as relaxed standards in regard to age.

What is the percentage of reservation provided to the ex-servicemen?

10% of the vacancies in the posts of the level of Assistant Commandant in all para-military forces, 10%t of the vacancies in each of the categories of Group ‘C’ and of such posts in Group ‘C’ services, including permanent vacancies filled initially on a temporary basis and temporary vacancies which are likely to be made permanent or are likely to continue for three months and more, to be filled by direct recruitment in any year are reserved for ex-servicemen;

Provided the percentage of reservation so specified for ex-servicemen in a category of post shall be increased or decreased in any one recruitment year to the extent to which the total number of vacancies reserved for ex-servicemen, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (including the carried forward reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) and for any other categories taken together, falls short or is in excess, as the case may be, of fifty per cent of the vacancies in that category of posts filled in that year;

Provided further that in case of an increase in the reservation for the ex­-servicemen under the preceding proviso, the additional vacancies so made available for them shall be utilised first for the appointment of disabled ex­-servicemen and if any such vacancies still remain unfilled thereafter the same shall then be made available to other ex-servicemen.