Age relaxation for appointment of widows, divorced woman
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 StandingCommittee 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.
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(Arunoday Goswami)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of lndia
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iam widow ple help me i want job
I am a widow lady and I need a Job urgently to run my family , as i have 2 children 3rears girl and 5 years son. Suddenly my husband expired in October 2014 due to Dengue. And now I am alone and i am worried about my childrens. Please advise if you have any vacancy in 4th class job I have the qualification 10th pass.
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Kiran Pandey
I am in Maharashtra government service. I will try to higher grade posts job of Maharashtra government. But my age is now complete 49. As per government rule for government post require age for open category woman 45 to 50. but where I will try for Maharashtra government job that committee fixed age 48 for government employees – I am widow and single woman. So what I can do ?