MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD)
New Delhi, the 17^th February, 2007

RULES

No. 2006/E(GR)I/1/4.—The rules for a competitive examination to be held by the Union Public Service Commission in 2007 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 and Other Backward Classes 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

(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1^st 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, 2007 i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1986 and not later than 1^stAugust, 1990.

(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 1^st January, 1980 to the 31^st 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 1^st August, 2007 and have been released (i) on completion of assignments including those whose assignments is due to be completed within one year from 1^st August, 2007 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 1^st August, 2007 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.

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 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.

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 4^th 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

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.

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, 2007.

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 2007. 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. 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.

(MAMTA KANDWAL)
Deputy Director
Railway Board.

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