Widows,
divorcees and judicially separated women should be allowed to take the Staff
Selection Commission exam
and participate in other employment exchanges up
to 35 years of age, the Centre said on Thursday. The Ministry of Personnel has brought to the
notice of SSC and Union Public Service Commission, among others, its notice
about this provision.
The direction came following
recommendation by a Parliamentary Standing Committee in this regard.
The
Committee has drawn attention 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). These
concessions are for the post of Group 'C' and erstwhile Group 'D' filled
through SSC or employment exchange. It
has directed scrupulous compliance of these instructions by all administrative
authorities.
The
Ministry has already issued instructions for this.
All
ministries or departments are requested to bring these instructions to the
notice of all concerned for strict compliance, an official memorandum issued
today by the Personnel Ministry said. "The Committee strongly feels that
non-compliance is not tolerable and recommends that the Department of Personnel
and Training should ensure that its guidelines are followed scrupulously,"
a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and
Justice has said in its report.