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CHSL Exam permissible relaxation of Upper age limit as prescribed with Category-Codes for claiming Age Relaxation as on the date of reckoning:

Important Instructions

Note 1 : 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 or for claiming benefits of reservation under EXS category. However, they are eligible for age relaxation only.

Note 2 : 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.

Note 3 : For any serviceman of the three Armed Forces of the Union to be treated as ExServiceman 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 with the Armed Forces within the stipulated period of one year from the Closing Date, or otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency.

Explanation:

An 'ex-serviceman' means a person:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Personnel, who were on deputation in Army Postal Service for more than six months prior to the 14th April, 1987;or
5. Gallantry award winners of the Armed forces including personnel of Territorial Army;or
6. Ex-recruits boarded out or relieved on medical ground and granted medical disability pension.

Note 4 : Age Concession is NOT Admission to Sons, Daughters and dependents of Ex-servicemen

Note 5: As per Supreme Court direction dated 24.02.1995 in Appeal No.731-69 of 1994, Age relaxation will be available for Group-‘C’ posts in the O/o  RGI(Registrar General of India) for retrenched Census employees as under

1. Age relaxation by 3 years plus length of service rendered by them in  connection with census, before retrenchment.
2. Weightage of past service.