CHAPTER IX - DoPT

1 CHAPTER IX EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION AND PROFICIENCY STANDARDS A. General Principles (1)Educational qualifications should be prescribed, as soon as a new post is created, in the relevant recruitment rules/orders. (2)Educational qualifications apply alike to permanent and temporary appointments. (3)Educational qualifications do not apply to posts filled by promotion in regular line, unless otherwise provided in the relevant recruitment rules/orders. B. Educational qualifications and Proficiency standards prescribed for direct recruitment. The educational qualifications for recruitment to the various public services shall be as shown below : T. Superior Services All India and Central Services, Group A.

2 University Degree essential II. Middle Group Services (i)Central, Group B (Gazetted) .. University Degree essential (ii)Central, Group B (Non-Gazetted) and Assistants in offices not participating in .. University Degree essential (iii)Central, Group C (Non-clerical) other than Ap-prentices and Divisional Accountants in the Indian Audit & Accounts Department .. DI. Clerical Services (a)Upper Division Clerks other than those recruited direct to the grade in the Indian Audit and Accounts Deptt. (b)Lower Division Clerks . Intermediate/Senior cambridge /Higher Secondary certificate or equivalent quali-fications. Matriculation or equivalent qualifications until replaced by Higher Secondary.

3 The above orders d. not apply to recruitment to technical, professional and specialist services. [ No. 2/41/59-RPS, dated 3-12-1959 as amended by OM No. 2 /11/60-Estt (D) dated 1V. Other Services/posts (1) Stenographer (English and Hindi) Matriculation, with proficiency standards as under : Grade Speed in-English/Hindi shorthand'and'duration of test Time allowed for Transcription in English 50 minutes 65 minutes 45 minutes 50 minutes Hindi 60 minutes 75 minutes 60 minutes 65 minutes (a)100 words tier minute for 7 minutes (b)80 words per minute for 10 minutes TI (a) 120 words per minute for 7 minutes (b) 100 words per minute for 10 minutes (Cabi rot Secretariat (Department of Personnel) Notification No.)]

4 9/4171-CS-II, Notification No. 8/80/70-CSH, dated 20-2-1970) (2) Staff Car Drivers A pass in Middle School Standard should be regarded as a desirable but not an essenglal qualification. NITA No. 2/8 /55. RPS dt. 161 University Degree not essential, and the minimum educational qualifications may be Intermediate/Higher Secondary/ Senior cambridge certificate or equivalent oualifications. dated 7-8-1971 and 162 (3) Record Sorter, Daftry, Jamadar and Peon Minimum educational qualification is Middle School Standard. Applicant should produce a certificate issued by the competent authority Board of Examination set up by Government or by the head of a recognised school where there is no such examination condlcted by an authority outside the school, that they have passed the middle school standard.

5 [MBA No. 13/1/51-NGS, dated 16-11-51] The following categories are, however, exempt from this requirement :- (i)Retrenched permanent displaced Government servants. [MBA No. 13/1/51-NGS dated 13-2-52] (ii)Persons in continuous Government service from before the 16th November 1951 for quasi permanent appointment or confirmation. [MHA No. 13/1/51-NGS, dated 13-2-52] (iii)Retrenched temporary Government employees (Displaced as well as Central) with a minimum of three years service before termination of services whether under the Government of India or Governments of areas now constituting Pakistan. [MHA No. 13!1/51-NGS, dated 1-4-52] (iv)Released.

6 Ex-Servicemen, who have completed six months continuous Armed Forces before their release and who were released otherwise than missal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency provided in not less than three years service in the Armed Forces of the Union of a former Indian State/Civil Deptt. of the Government of India. [MHA No. 14/18/66-Est(D) 'dt. 7-12-67 read with MHA No. dt. 10-10-52 & 9/9/62-Est(C) dt. 10-4-62] (v)Demobilised personnel employed in Civil departments whose total length of service in Armed Forces of Union or a former State and the Civil Departments is not less than three years, provided they were not released from the Army on ground of mis-conduct or inefficiency.

7 [ No. 13/1/51-NGS dt. 10-10-52 read with No. 14/18/66-Est.(D) dt. 7-12-67] (vi)Further exemptions may be granted by administrative Ministries for recruitment to posts in sub-ordinate officers located outside Delhi, Tribal Areas in Assam NEFA now Mizoram and Arunachal and such other out of-the-way areas where persons of requisite qualifications are not likely to be available. [MHA No. 13/1/51-NGS-II, dated 5-11-1952] NOTE 1 : Broken periods of services count for the purpose of reckoning theminimum of threeTyears referred to in (iii) to (v) above. (MHA No. 13/1151-NGS dated 13-2-1952 (Para 2) and No. 13/1/51-NGS dt. 10-10-52) Non 2 : Certificate of Middle School standard without English also acceptable for appointment as Peon only.

8 (MHA No. 23/17/55-S & NO dated 6-9-55) Non 3 A candidate who has passed class VII from a recognised Govt. School in Maharashtra will be treated as Middle School pass for the purpose of employment under the Central Govt. (DOP&T No. 14036/2!85-Estt. (D) dated 14-10-1985) (4) Ge7tetner Operator Middle School Standard. [MBA No. 2 /25/54-RPS dated 3-10-1956] (5) x-Servicemen (i) "Ex-Servicemen- means a person who has served in any rank (whether as a Comba-tant o- non-Combatant) in the Armed Forces of the Union including the Armed Forces of the former Indian States, but excluding the Assam Rifles, Territorial Army etc. for a continuous period service in the by way of dis-they have put Armed Forces 13/1/51-NGS 163 of not less than six months, and has been released, otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or has been transferred to the reserve pending such release, or has to serve for not more than six months for completing the period of service requisite for becoming entitled to be released or transferred to the reserve, or has been released at his own request.

9 After completing 5 years service in the Armed Forces of the Union. For appointment to any reserved vacancy in the Group D posts of Peon, Daftry, iamadar and Record Sorter, every ex-serviceman who has put in not less than 3 years' service in the Armed Forces of the Union shall he exempted from the prescribed educational qualification. [Department of Personnel Notification No. 13/3/71-Est(C). dated 14-10-71 & Notifn, No. 39016/10/79-Estt(C), dated 15-12-79] (ii)For appointment to any reserved vacancy for Ex-servicemen in Group C posts, the appointing authority may relax the minimum educational qualification, where it is a pass in the Middle School Examination or any other lower examination in favour of Ex-servicemen, who have put in atleast three years service in the Armed Forces of the Union and who are otherwise considered fit and suitable, in view of their experience and other qualifications.

10 (iii)For appointment to any reserved vacancy in GrOup C posts. to be filled partly by direct recruitment and partly by promotion or transfer, relaxation is available to ex-servicemen subject to conditions stipulated in Para 6(3) of & Notifn 'No. 39016/10/79-Estt(C), dated 15-12-79 and Para 6(4) of Notifn. No. 15012/8/82-Estt(D), dt. 12-2-86 (See Appendix). (6)Displaced permanent Patwaris and Kanungos from Sind and To be treated as educationally qualified for Group. C posts if considered otherwise suitable. (Prescribed educa-tional qualifications may be deemed to have been especially relaxed by the Home Ministry.) [MHA OM No. 30/3/57-DGS dt. 23-5-57 (Para 3) read with No.]