Age Relaxation for Examination

State government is likely to relax the upper age limit for the recruitment to the vacant government jobs in the wake of its promise made earlier and to do justice to the unemployed who lost time during the agitations for Telangana.

The State Cabinet which is going to meet on Wednesday is likely to take a call on the issue. Though it is widely expected that the age relaxation would be for ten years, sources said that it might be limited to five years.

The student groups also expressed their hope that state government’s positive decision on age relaxation would surely help thousands of youth to get into the state services. The government responded positively on age relaxation after receiving lot of representations from the students unions and groups. The CM had also promised for it during the statehood movement.

The state public service commission has not released any job notification after the year 2012 and several hundred students have crossed the upper age limit required for different examinations.

It is to be reminded here that the state government has already given its nod for issuing job notifications in various government departments.

Though the CM had promised to provide 10 years relaxation to all the youth, the same might not be considered as it may take the recruitment age to about 50 in some cases.

Already the maximum age limit for general category candidates is 34 years and for ST/SC categories it is 39 years. Similarly the age limit for handicapped is more than that. If the age relaxation of 10 years is added to the current maximum age limits then it would go up to 44, 49 for general and SC/ST and more than 50 years for handicapped.

Officials from Telangana Public Service Commission said that without the separate orders for age relaxation, the Commission would be forced to continue the existing system on age limits. They informed that it was likely that the state government may possibly give the relaxation of five or six years for one or two years.

On the other hand student organizations who have also been demanding for the age relaxation, feel that a large number of students have lost their maximum age for the cause of Telangana and they must be given relaxation.

Students Federation of India (SFI) state secretary M Nageshwar said that students have sacrificed their career for the statehood movement and it was the responsibility of the state government to protect their career.