Dear Comrades,
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT OVER THE YEARS
UPPER AGE LIMIT FOR DIFFERENT POSTS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE
The Minister of State in
the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions was requested to answer the
following questions regarding status women employees in Central government
services. Singh Shri Bhola M.P (Question No.4934) has raised the following
questions in Parliament.
(a)
The percentage of women in the Government service and the increase in percentage during the last three years;
(b)
Whether the Government has taken/ contemplating to take any
policy decision to encourage women to join Government
service and if so, the details thereof;
(c)
Whether in several competitive examinations, the maximum age limit for general candidates is 27 years and
if so, the details thereof;
(d)
Whether there is a need for increasing the maximum age limit for women for entry in theGovernment
service; and
(e)
If so, the details thereof and the measures taken in this
regard?
In
his reply to the above questions the Minister of State in the Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime
Minister’s Office Shri .DR. JITENDRA SINGH submitted the following answer in Lok Sabha on 13.08.2014
(a):
Details of percentage of women in Government
service over the years, as per the Census of Central
Government Employees, 2012, released by Directorate General Employment &
Training are at Table-1 in the Annexure.
(b):
In order to encourage the women to join Government
service, they are provided some special facilities as under:
(i)
maternity leave (ii) child care leave (iii) child adoption leave (iv) special
allowance to women with disability (v) provision of crèche facility (vi)
posting of husband and wife at the same station (vii) special priority in allotment of residential accommodation (viii)
provision for protection of women from acts of sexual harassment (ix)
age relaxation for appointment to widows, divorced woman and woman judicially
separated from their husbands and who are not remarried (x) special
dispensation for woman officers of All India Services of North East cadre (xi)
change of Cadre in case of marriage of All India Service Officer and (xii)
exemption from payment of fee for examinations conducted by the Union Public
Service Commission and Staff Selection Commission.
Also,
as per the recommendations of the 62nd Department Related Parliamentary
Standing Committee, publicity to encourage women to prefer/ join Government Service is being given.
(c):
The upper age limit for general candidates for entry in
the Government Service is as at Table-2 of the Annexure.
(d)
& (e): There is a provision for age relaxation for appointment in Government service for Widows, divorced Women and Women
judicially separated from husbands and not re- married, upto 35 years for posts
of Group C filled through Staff Selection Commission/ Employment Exchange (upto 40 years for members of
Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes).
ANNEXURE
REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4934 FOR ANSWER ON 13.08.2014.
ANNEXURE
TABLE-
1
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT OVER THE YEARS
|
Year
|
Total No. of employees
(in
lakhs)
|
No. of Women employees (in
lakhs )
|
Percentage
|
|
1991
|
38.13
|
2.88
|
7.58
|
|
2001
|
38.76
|
2.91
|
7.53
|
|
2009
|
30.99
|
3.11
|
10.04
|
TABLE-
2
UPPER AGE LIMIT FOR DIFFERENT POSTS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE
|
S.No
|
Posts
|
Age Limits
|
|
I
|
Posts having Grade Pay more than Grade Pay Rs.7600/-
|
Preferably below 50 years
|
|
II
|
Posts having Grade Pay Rs.7600
|
50 years
|
|
III
|
Posts having Grade Pay Rs.6600
|
40 Years
|
|
IV
|
Posts having Grade Pay Rs.5400
|
35 Years
|
|
V
|
Posts having Grade Pay Rs.4200, 4600 and 4800
|
30 Years
|
|
VI
|
Posts having GP Rs. 1800, 1900, 2000, 2400 and
2800
|
Between 18 and 25 years
|
Note: The upper age
limit for recruitment by the
method of Direct Open Competitive Examination to the Central Civil Services and
Civil posts specified in the relevant Service/ recruitment rules shall be
increased by two years.
