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MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD)
New Delhi, the 28th August, 2010
RULES
No. 2010/E(GR)I/1/4.�The rules for a competitive examination to be held by the Union
Public Service Commission in 2010 for selection of candidates for appointment as
Special Class Apprentices in Mechanical Department of Indian Railways are published
for general information.
2. The number of vacancies to be filled on the result of the examination will be
finalised by the Govt. before declaration of results of examination Reservation will be
made for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Other
Backward Classes and Physically disabled categories in respect of vacancies a may be
fixed by the Government.
3. The examination will be conducted by the Commission in the manner prescribed
in Appendix 1 to these rules.
4. The dates on which and the places at which the examination will be held shall be
fixed by the Commission.
4. (A) candidate must be either: -
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January 1962, with the
intention of permanently setting in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and
East Africa countries of Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania or from
Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently setting
in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d), and (e) above
shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the
Government of India.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the
examination but the offer of application may be given only after the necessary eligibility
certificate has been issued to him by the Government of India.
5. (a) A candidate must have attained the age of 17 years and must not have attained the
age of 21 years on 1st August, 2010 i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd
August, 1989 and not later than 1st August, 1993.
(b) The upper �age limit prescribed� above will be relaxable: -
(i) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a
Scheduled Tribe;.
(ii) upto a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other
Backward Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates;
(iii) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in
the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1st January, 1980 to the 31st day of
December, 1989;
(iv) upto a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services personnel
disable in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and
released as a consequence thereof;
(v) upto a maximum of five years in the case of Ex-servicemen including
Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military
Service as on 1st August, 2010 and have been released (i) on completion of assignments
including those whose assignments is due to be completed within one year from 1st
August, 2010 otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge, on account of misconduct
or inefficiency, or (ii) on account of Physical disability attributable to Ministry Service,
or (iii) on invalidment;
(vi) upto q maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed
an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as on 1st August, 2010
and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the
Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and they
will be released on three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of
appointment.
(vii) upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically
handicapped persons.
Note 1-- Candidate belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribe and the
Other Backward classes who are also covered under any other clauses of Rule (b) above,
viz. to those coming under the category of Ex-servicemen, persons domiciled in the State
of J & K , Physically handicapped etc. will be eligible for grant of cumulative age-
relaxation under both the categories.
Note II-- The term ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined a Ex-
servicemen in the Ex-servicemen (Re-employment in Civil Services and posts) Rules,
1979 as amended from time to time.
Note III-- The age concession under Rule 5 (b) (v) and (vi) will not be admissible to
Ex-servicemen and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs, who are released on
own request.
Note IV-- Notwithstanding the provisions of age relaxation under Rule 5(b) (vii) above,
a physically handicapped candidate will be considered to be eligible for appointment only
if he/she (after such physicaly examination as the Government or appointing authority,
as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the requirements of physically and
medical standards for the concerned Services/Posts to be allocated to the physically
handicapped candidates by the Government.
SAVE AS PROVIDED ABOVE. THE AGE LIMIT PRESCRIBED CAN IN NO CASE
BE RELAXED.
The date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation
or Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a certificate recognised by an Indian
University as equivalent to Matriculation in an extract from a Register of Matriculates
maintained by a University which extract must be certified by the proper authority of the
University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination certificate.
No other document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extract from
Municipal Corporation, Service records and the like will be accepted.
The expression Matriculation/Higher Secondary Examination Certificate in this part of
the instructions include the alternative certificates mentioned above.
Note 1-- 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
requested for its change will be considered or granted.
Note 2--Candidates should also note that once a date of birth has been claimed by them
and entered in the records of the Commission for the purpose of admission to an
Examination, no change will be allowed subsequently (or at any other examination of the
Commission) on any grounds whatsoever.
6. A candidates: -
(a) must have passed in the first or second division, the Intermediate or an equivalent
Examination of a University or Board approved by the Government of India with
Mathematics and at least
one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subject of the examination.
Graduates with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as
their degree subjects may also apply, or
(b) must have passed in the first or second division the Higher Secondary (12 years)
Examination under 10 plus 2 pattern of School Education with Mathematics and at least
one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subject of the examination, or
(c) must have passed the first year Examination under the three-year degree course of a
University or the first examination of the three-year diploma course in Rural Service of
the National Council for Rural Higher Education or the third year Examination for
promotion to the 4th year of the four-year B.A./B. Sc. (Evening College) Course of the
Madras University with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and
Chemistry as subject of the examination provided that before joining the degree/diploma
course ha passed the Higher Secondary Examination or the Pre-university or equivalent
examination in the first or second division. Candidates who have passed the first/second
year examination under the three-year degree course in the first or second division with
Mathematics and either Physics or Chemistry as subject of the examination may also
apply, provided the first/second year Examination is conducted by a University, or
(d) must have passed in the first or second division the Pre-engineering Examination of a
University, approved by the Government of India; or
(e) must have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Professional/Pre-
Technological Examination of any Indian University or recognised Board with
Mathematics and at least one of the subject Physics and Chemistry as subject of the
Examination conducted one year after the Higher Secondary or Pre-University stage; or
(f) must have passed the fist year examination under the five year Engineering Degree
Course of a University provided that before joining the Degree Course he passed the
Higher Secondary Examination or Pre-University or equivalent examination in the first or
second division.
Candidates who have passed the first year Examination of the five-years
Engineering Degree Course in the first or second division may also apply provided the
first year Examination is conducted by a University; or
(g) must have passed in the first or second division the Pre-Degree Examination of the
Universities of Kerala and Calicut with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects
Physics and Chemistry as subject of the examination.
Note I-- Candidates who area not awarded any specific division by the University/Board
either in the Intermediate or any other examination mentioned above will be considered
educationally eligible provided their aggregate of marks falls within the range of marks
for first or second division as prescribed by the University/Board concerned.
Note II-- Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would
render them eligible to appear at the examination but have not been informed of the result
may apply for admission to the examination. Candidates who intend to appear at such a
qualifying examination may also apply. Such candidates will be admitted to the
examination, if otherwise eligible, but their admission would be deemed to be provisional
and subject to cancellation, if they do not produce proof of having passed the requisite
qualifying examination along with the detailed application which will be required to be
submitted by the candidates who qualify on the results of the written part of the
examination.
Note III-- In exceptional cases, the Commission may treat a candidate, who has not any
of the qualifications prescribed in this rule, as educationally qualified provided that he
possesses qualifications the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission, justifies
his admission to the examination.
Note IV-- Diplomas in Engineering awarded by the State Board of Technical Education
are not acceptable for admission to the Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination.
7. Candidates must pay the free prescribed in the Commission�s Notice.
8. All candidates in Government service, whether in a permanent or in temporary
capacity or as Work-charged employees, other than casual or daily-rated employees or
those serving under Public Enterprises will be required to submit an undertaking that they
informed in writing their Head of Office/Department that they have applied for the
examination.
Candidates should note that in case a communication is received from their
employer by the Commission withholding permission to the candidates applying
for/appearing at the examination, their application will be liable to be
rejected/candidature will be liable to be cancelled.
9. The decision of the Commission with regard to the acceptance of the
application of a candidate and his eligibility or otherwise for admission to the
examination shall be final.
The candidates applying for examination should ensure that they fulfil all the eligibility
conditions for admission to the examination. Their admission at all the stages of
examination for which they are admitted by the Commission viz. Written Examination,
and Interview Test will be purely provisional, subject to their satisfying the prescribed
eligibility conditions. If on verification at any time before or after the written
Examination and Interview Test, it is found that they do not fulfil any of the eligibility
conditions, their candidature for the examination will be cancelled by the Commission.
10. No candidate will be admitted to the examination unless he holds a certificate of
admission from the Commission.
11. A candidate who is or has been declared by the Commission to be guilty of; --
(i) obtaining support for his candidature by any means; or
(ii) impersonating; or
(iii) procuring impersonation by any person: or
(iv) submitting fabricated document or document which have been tampered with; or
(v) making statements which are incorrect or false, or suppressing material
information; or
(vi) resorting to any other irregular or improper means in connection with his
candidature for the examination; or
(vii) using unfair means during the examination; or
(viii) writing irrelevant matter including obscene language or pornographic matter, in
the Script(s); or
(ix) misbehaving in any other manner in the examination hall; or
(x) harassing or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Commission for the
conduct of their examination; or
(xi) being in possession of or using mobile phone, pager or any electronic equipment or
device or any other equipment capable of being used as a communication device during
the examination; or
(xii) violating any of the instructions issued to candidate alongwith their Admission
Certificate permitting them to take the examination; or
(xiii) attempting to commit or as the case may be abetting the Commission of all or any
of the acts specified in the foregoing clauses
may, in addition to rendering himself liable to criminal prosecution, be
liable ---
(a) to be disqualified by the Commission from the examination for which he is a
candidate; and/or
(b) to be debarred either permanently or for a specified period:--
(i) by the Commission, from any examination or selection held by them;
(ii) by the Central Government from any employment under them; and
(c) If he is already in service under Government to disciplinary action under the
appropriate rules.
Provided that no penalty under this rule shall be imposed except after---
(i) giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation in writing as he
may wish to make in that behalf; and
(ii) taking the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate, within the period
allowed to him into consideration.
12. Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written
examination as may be fixed by the Commission in their discretion, shall be summoned
for the Personality Test.
Provided that candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribe or the
Other Backward Classes may be summoned for the Personality Test by the Commission
by applying relaxed standards if the Commission is of the opinion that sufficient number
of candidates from these communities are not likely to be summoned for the Personality
Test on the basis of the general standard in order to fill up the vacancies reserved for
them.
13. (i) after the interview, the candidates will be arranged by the Commission in the
order of merit as disclosed by the aggregate mark finally awarded to each candidate in the
written examination as well as interview and in that order so many candidates as are
found by the Commission to be qualified at the examination shall be recommended for
appointment upto the number of unreserved vacancies decided to be filled on the result of
the examination.
(ii) The candidates belonging to any of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes or
Other Backward Classes may, to the extent of the number of vacancies reserved for the
Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes be
recommended by the Commission by a relaxed standard subject to the fitness of these
candidates for selection to the Service.
Provided that the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled
Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who have been recommended by the Commission
without resorting to any relaxations/concessions in the eligibility or selection criteria, at
any stage of the examination, shall not be adjusted against the vacancies reserved for the
Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes.
(iii) The prescribed qualifying will be relax able at the discretion of the commission at all
the stages of examination in favour of Physically disabled candidates in order to fill up
the vacancies reserved for them. In case, however, the physically disabled candidates get
selected on their own merit in the requisite number at the qualifying standards fixed by
the Commission for General, SC, ST, and OBC category candidates, extra physically
disabled candidates i.e., more than the number of vacancies reserved for them, will not be
recommended by the Commission on the relaxed standards.
14. The form and manner of communication of the result of the examination to
individual candidates shall be decided by the Commission in their discretion and the
Commission will not enter into correspondence with them regarding the result.
15. Success in the examination confers no right to appointment, unless Government
are satisfied after such enquiry as may be considered necessary that the candidate having
regard to his character and antecedents is suitable, in all respects for appointment to the
Railway Service.
16. A candidate must be in good mental and bodily health and free from any physical
defect likely to interfere with the discharge of his duties as an officer of the service. A
candidate who after such medical examination as Government or the appointing
authority, as the case may be, may prescribe, is found not to satisfy these requirements
will not be appointed. The medical examination shall be conducted only of the candidates
who are declared finally qualified by the UPSC on the basis of Special Class Railway
Apprentices Examination, 2010.
A communication for medical examination will be issued by the Ministry of
Railways to the candidates individually at the address for communication indicated by
them to the UPSC. In case any candidate does not receive such communication from the
Ministry of Railways within 21 days from the date of declaration of final result, he/she
shall get in touch with them to have the date of medical examination. Failure to do so
within 21 days from the date of declaration of final result, will forfeit his/her claim for
medical examination and thereby allotment on the basis of Special Class Railway
Apprentices Examination 2010. For the purpose of Medical Examination the successful
candidates will be required to present themselves, before the Additional Chief Medical
Officer, Central Hospital, Northern Railways, Basant Lane, New Delhi. In case the
candidates are wearing glasses, they should taken with them, the latest number of glasses
to the Medical Board.
No request for change in the date of medical examination or in its venue would be
acceded to.
The candidates should note that no request for grant of exemption from medical
examination will be entertained under any circumstances.
The candidates may also please note:
(i) a sum of Rs. 16 (Rupees sixteen only) in cash, is required to be paid by them to
the Medical Board.
(ii) no traveling allowance will be paid for the journey performed in connection with
medical examination and
(iii) the fact that a candidate has been physically examined will not mean or imply that
he will be considered for appointment.
THE CANDIDATES SHOULD NOTE THAT THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE
ANY SEPARATE INTIMATION REGARDING MEDICAL EXAMINATION
FROM THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS.
Note: In order to prevent disappointment, candidates are advised to have themselves
examined by a Government medical officer of the standing of a Civil Surgeon before
applying for admission to the examination. Particulars of the nature of the medical test to
which candidates will be subjected before appointment and of the standards required are
given in appendix �II to these Rules. For the disabled ex-Defence Services Personnel
the standards will be relaxed consistent with the requirements of the service.
17. For being considered against the vacancies reserved for them, the physically
disabled person should have disability of Forty per cent (40%) or more.
However, such candidates shall be required to meet one or more of the following
physical requirements/abilities which may be necessary for performing the duties
in the concerned Services/Posts:-
CODE PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS
F 1. Work performed by manipulating (with Fingers)
PP 2. Work performed by pulling and pushing
L 3. Work performed by lifting
KC 4. Work performed by kneeling and crouching
B 5. Work performed by bending
S 6. Work performed by sitting (on bench or chair)
ST 7. Work performed by standing
W 8. Work performed by walking
SE 9. Work performed by seeing
H 10. Work performed by hearing/speaking
RW 11. Work performed by reading and writing
The functional classification in their case shall be, one or more of the following,
consistent with the requirement of the concerned Services/Posts:-
FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION
CODE FUNCTIONS
BL 1. both legs affected but not arms.
a. impaired reach.
BA 2. both arms affected
b. weakness of grip.
BLA 3. both legs and both arms affected
a. impaired reach.
OL 4. one leg affected (R or L) b. weakness of grip.
c. ataxic.
a. impaired reach.
OA 5. one arm affected (R or L) b. weakness of grip.
c. ataxic.
BH 6. stiff back and hips (cannot sit or stoop)
MW 7. muscular weakness and limited physical endurance
B 8. the blind
PB 9. partially blind
D 10. the deaf
PD 11. partially deaf
17. No person: -
(a) who has entered into a contracted a marriage with a person having a spouse living ; or
(b) who having a spouse living; has entered into or contracted a marriage with any
person.
shall be eligible for appointment to service:
Provided that the Central Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible
under the personal law applicable to such person and the other party to the marriage and
there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any person from the operation of this rule.
18. Conditions of apprenticeship for the Special Class Apprentices selected through
this examination are given in Appendix �III, brief particulars relating to the Indian
Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers are also given in Appendix �IV.
(JASWANT RAI)
Exe. Director (Estt. GC)
Railway Board.
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