SSC Tax Assistant Exam 2008 Age Limit
(A) Age Limit:
20-27 years as on 11.09.2008 (normal closing date for receipt of
applications i.e. not born earlier than 12.09.1981 and not later than
11.09.1988).
Note:
Candidates should note that only the date of birth as recorded in the
matriculation/secondary examination certificate or an equivalent
certificate on the date of submission of application will be accepted
by the commission and no subsequent request for its change will be
considered or granted.
(B) The Upper age limit as prescribed in Para (A) above will be further relaxable:
Upto a maximum of 5 years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a ScheduledTribe category.
Upto
a maximum of 3 years if a candidate belongs to OBCs in accordance with
DP&T’s O.M. No. 36012/22/93-Estt.(SCT) dated 8.9.1993 and
subsequent modification vide DP&T OM NO.43013/2/95-Estt(SCT) dated
25.01.1995.
Note:
The closing date for receipt of application will be treated as the date
of reckoning for OBC status of the candidate and also, for assuming
that the candidate does not fall in the creamy layer.
The
candidate should furnish the relevant OBC certificate in the format
prescribed for Central Government jobs as per Annexure-VIII issued by
competent authority on or before the Closing Date stipulated in the
Notice.
Candidates furnishing OBC
Certificate in proforma/format other than the prescribed format as
given in Annexure-VIII will be summarily rejected.
Upto
a maximum of 10 years if the candidate is a physically handicapped
person. For candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC who are physically
handicapped, the maximum relaxation of 10 years permissible for
physically handicapped shall be in addition to the age relaxation
provided in terms of sub-paras (i) and (ii) above.
Upto
the maximum of 5 years to candidates of Jammu and Kashmir who have
ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu and Kashmir during the
period from 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989. Any person intending to avail of
the aforesaid relaxation shall submit the certificate from either
District Magistrate within whose jurisdiction he/she had ordinarily
resided or any other authority so designated in this behalf by the
Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir to the effect that he/she had ordinarily
been domiciled in the State of Jammu and Kashmir during the period
01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989.
Upto
the age of 35 years (upto 40 years for members of Scheduled Castes/
Scheduled Tribes and 38 years for OBC) in the case of widows; divorced
women and women judicially separated from their husbands and who are
not remarried.
Upto a
maximum of three years (8 years for SC/ST and 6 years for OBCs
candidates) in the case of Defence Personnel disabled in operation
during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and
released as a consequence thereof.
Upper age limit is also relaxable for retrenched employees of Chukha Hydel Project
Authority
in Bhutan who were directly recruited, to the extent of service
rendered by them with the Authority (period of service rendered by the
retrenched employees will be decided on the basis of certificate issued
by the Chukha Hydel Project Authority).
(C)
Age concession for Ex-Serviceman will be allowed in accordance with the
orders issued by the Government from time to time and they will be
allowed to deduct military service from their actual age and such
resultant age should not exceed the prescribed age limit by more than 3
years.
Explanation: An
ex-serviceman means a person who has served in any rank whether as
combatant or non-combatant in the Regular Army, Navy, Air Force of the
Indian Union and
who
retired from such service after earning his/her pension. This would
also include persons who are released/retired at their own request but
after having earned their pension; or
who
has been released from such service on medical grounds attributable to
military service/circumstances beyond his/her control and awarded
medical or other disability pension; or
who has been released, otherwise than on his/her own request from such service as a result of reduction in establishment; or
who
has been released from such service after completing the specific
period of engagements, otherwise than at his/her 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 of the following categories, namely :-
- Pension holders for continuous embodied service,
- Persons with disability attributable to military service; and
- Gallantry award winners.
Note-I:
Ex-servicemen, who have already joined government job in civil side
after availing ofthe benefits given to ex-servicemen for their
re-employment, are also eligible for the age concession. However, such
candidates will Not be eligible for the benefit of reservation as ExS
or for fee concession.
Note-II:
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 Para - (C) above and Note IV below.
Note-III:
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
exserviceman and/or is in a position to establish his/her acquired
entitlement by documentary evidence from the competent authority that
he/she would complete specified term of engagement from the Armed
Forces within the stipulated period of one year from the closing
date(i.e.11.09.2008).
Explanation:
The persons serving in the Armed Forces of the Union, who on retirement
from service, would come under the category of 'ex-serviceman', may be
permitted to apply for re-employment one year before the completion of
the specified terms of engagements and avail themselves of all
concessions available to ex-servicemen but shall not be permitted to
leave the uniform until they complete the specified term of engagement
in the Armed Forces of the Union.
Note-IV:
This concession of applying one year before the completion of specified
term of engagement is not available in respect of Educational
Qualifications, i.e., non-Graduate ExS are required to complete 15
years of service (and not, 14 years) as on 11.09.2008 for becoming
a‘deemed Graduate’. Thus, those non-Graduate ExS who have not completed
15 years of service as on this date for recruitment as stated in Note
III under Para 4(C) are NOT eligible.
Note-V: The format of certificate/undertaking to be submitted by the candidates in this connection is given in Annexure- V & VI.
Note-Vi: Age Concession Is Not Admissible To The Sons, Daughters And Dependents Of Ex-Servicemen.