Lower Division Clerk (Category No: 122/2016) - Kerala PSC Notifications

Gazette Date: 14/06/2016 - Last Date: 20/07/2016

Category No: 122/2016

SPECIAL RECRUITMENT - DISTRICT WISE

Applications are invited from qualified Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates of Kerala State for selection to the following post. Applications must be submitted online through the official website of the Commission after ONE TIME REGISTRATION. Candidates who have already registered can apply through their profile. The photo uploaded through One Time Registration should be the one taken after 31.12.2010. Name of the candidate and the date of the photograph taken should be printed at the bottom portion. The photograph once uploaded meeting all requirements shall be valid for 10 years from the date of photograph taken.

1 Name of Department : Various

2 Name of post : Lower Division Clerk (SR for SC/ST) (Redesignated as Clerk as per G.O(Ms)No.120/2013/ (138)/Fin. Dated 04.03.2013.

Note: (1) This will include the integrated post of Lower Division Clerk/Village Assistant in the Revenue Department.

(2) Vacancies of Lower Division Clerk in Kerala Municipal Common Service will also be filled up from the Ranked List prepared for each District in pursuance of this notification without obtaining willingness from the candidates. (For Direct Recruitment only)

3 Scale of pay : ` 9940 - 16580/

4 No. of Vacancy : District wise Ernakulam (SC/ST2) Malappuram (SC/ST 4) (ST only – 2) Kozhikode (SC/ST2)

Note:(i) The above Vacancies are now in existence. The list of selected candidates published by the Commission shall remain in force for a minimum period of one year and a maximum period of three years provided that the said list will not continue to be in force if a new list after the expiry of the minimum period of one year is published. Recruitment will be made for the above vacancies and also for the vacancies reported for Special Recruitment from Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes during the currency of the list. Candidates against vacancies reported exclusively for Scheduled Tribes will also be advised from this list and only in the

absence of Scheduled Tribe candidates in this list fresh notification for vacancies reserved exclusively for scheduled Tribes will be issued.

(ii) The selection in pursuance of this notification will be made on a Revenue District basis subject to the Special conditions laid down in G.O (MS)No.154/71/PD dated 27.05.1971. A candidate advised for appointment in one Revenue District from the Ranked List so prepared is not eligible for transfer to another District unless he/she completes five (5) years continuous service from the date of commencement of service in the former District. Even if, transfer is allowed after five (5) years, it will be subject to the rules in

GO(P)No.5/13/P&ARD dated 6.02.2013. But as per GO(P)12/96/P&ARD dated 16.03.1996, the condition of 5 years service is not applicable for the transfer to the Districts of Idukki, Wayanad and Kasaragod. This concession will be available only for getting transfer into these districts, but not for getting transfer out of these districts and this concession will be granted only once in the career of a Government Servant. Candidates already in Government service, holding the post in any one District are restricted from applying for the same post in another District. But they can apply for higher posts when notified. (iii) Candidates are not eligible to apply for the same post in more than one District. If a candidate applies to more than one District and gets selected, his/her selection will be cancelled and disciplinary action will be taken against him/her. Candidates should submit the application for the post to the concerned District Office and should note the name of the district against the relevant column of the online application.

(iv) Candidates from the Ranked List for districtwise selection will be advised for appointment against the Head quarters vacancies also. As per the provision in G.O(Ms)154/71/PD dated 27.05.1971 appointment against the Headquarters vacancies will be started from Thiruvananthapuram District. Separate option need not be given for this.

5 Method of Appointment : Direct Recruitment (Special Recruitment from among Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes only).

Note:Applications

received from candidates other than Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe will be rejected. Individual communications regarding the rejection of their applications for the above reason will not be issued.

6 Age : 18 – 41 Only Candidates born between 02.01.1975 and 01.01.1998 (both dates included) are eligible to apply for

this post.

Note : 7

In the absence of qualified candidates within the age limit upper age limit shall be relaxed upto 50 years. But in no case the maximum age limit shall exceed 50 (Fifty).

Qualifications: A pass in S.S.L.C. Examination or its equivalent qualification.

Note:(i) Part II Rule 10(a)ii of KS&SSR regarding qualification is applicable for this selection.

(ii) Candidates willing to be posted as Lower Division Clerk in Kerala State Archives Department must submit willingness at the time of verification of documents. When the Ranked List for the post is published, the fact whether the candidates are willing to be

appointed in the Kerala State Archives Department will be noted against their names. Such candidates are eligible for appointment in other departments also, as and when their turn for appointment arises. If a person is once advised for appointment in the State

Archives Department, he won't be further considered for appointment in any other Department basis of that selected list. Persons appointed as LDC in State Archives Department have to undergo Inserivce Training in “old scripts” during the period of

probation as may be prescribed by the Government. (iii) Candidates advised as Lower Division Clerks/Village Assistant in the Revenue Department from the Ranked List prepared in pursuance of this notification wil be sent for “Survey Training” by the Department, if they have not already passed the “Chain Survey Test”. They shall acquire the test qualification for being promoted to the cadre of the Village Officer/Upper Division Clerk vide special rules for the Kerala Revenue Ministerial Subordiate Service.