Junior Engineers Civil & Electrical Examination (SSCJEE)

Junior Engineers Civil & Electrical Exam2009

1. Staff Selection Commission will hold on Sunday,the 5th April, 2009, an open competitive examination for recruitmentto the post of Junior Engineers (Civil & Electrical) in CPWD and MES, aGroup ?C? Non-Gazetted, Non-Ministerial post, classified as General CentralServices (Technical) in the pay-scale of Rs.5000-150-8000(pre-revised), allover the country.

Note-I: The above stated postscarry All India Service Liability (AISL) i.e. the Candidate, on selection,could be asked to serve anywhere in the country.

Note-II: Candidates who appearfor the written examination and qualify for Interview may also be consideredfor recruitment to the posts of JE(Civil)/JE(Elect) in other Goverment.

Organisations/Departments, subject to receipt ofconfirmed number of vacancies before the Interviews or declaration of the FinalResults.

Applications are Invited From Willing Candidatesfor the Post of Junior Engineers (Civil & Electrical) Exam., 2009. Thecandidates will have to apply in the prescribed Application Form

2. Vacancies/Reservation

        i.           Firm number of vacancies for the post of JuniorEngineers(Civil & Elect) will be determined in due course.

      ii.           Reservation for SC/ST/OBC/ExS/PH etc. categories areapplicable as per extant Central Goverment Orders.

Note:1 OrthopaedicallyHandicapped (OH) and Partially Deaf/ Hearing Handicapped candidates areeligible for the above posts.

Note:2 Other Backward Class(OBC)for the purpose of Age Relaxation and Reservation will mean ?Persons of OBCcategory not belonging to the Creamy Layer?? as defined in Government of India,Department of Personnel & Training OM No. 36012/22/93 - Estt. (SCT) dated08.09.1993 and modified vide Goverment of India Department of Personnel andTraining om No. 36033/3/2004-Estt(Res) dated 09.03.2004 and 14.10.2008.

3. Nationality / Citizenship:

A candidate must be either:

a.       Acitizen of India,or

b.      Asubject of Nepal,or

c.       Asubject of Bhutan,or

d.      ATibetan refugee who came over to India,before the 1st January,1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India, or

e.       Aperson of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, EastAfrican countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania(FormerlyTanganyika and Zanzibar),Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopiaand Vietnam with theintention of permanently settling in India.

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories(b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate ofeligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibilityis necessary may be admitted to the Examination but the offer of appointmentwill be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issuedto him/her by the Government of India.

Junior Engineers Civil & ElectricalExamination 2009 Age Limit

4. (A) Age Limit: 18-27 years ason 30.01.2009,(closing date for receipt of applications) i.e. the candidatemust have been born not earlier than 31st January 1982 and not later than 30thJanuary, 1991.

Note: Candidates should notethat the Date of Birth as recorded in the Matriculation/Secondary ExaminationCertificate or an equivalent certificate only, on the date of submission ofapplication will be accepted by the Commission for determining the age eligibilityand no subsequent request for its change will be considered.

4. (B) The Upper age limit as prescribedin Para 4(A) will be relaxable:

1.      Uptoa maximum of 5 years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a ScheduledTribe category;

2.      Uptoa maximum of 3 years if a candidate belongs to OBCs in accordance with DP &T OM NO.43013/2/95-Estt(SCT) dated 25.01.1995 read with amendments madethereafter;

3.      Uptoa maximum of 10 years if the candidate is a physically handicapped person. Forcandidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC who are physically handicapped, the maximumage relaxation of 10 years permissible for physically handicapped shall be inaddition to the age relaxation provided in terms of column (i) and (ii) above;

4.      Uptothe maximum of 5 years to candidates of Jammu and Kashmir who have ordinarilybeen domiciled in the State of Jammu and Kashmir during the period from1.1.1980 to 31.12.1989. (Any person intending to avail of the aforesaidrelaxation shall submit the certificate from either District Magistrate withinwhose jurisdiction he/she had ordinarily resided or any other authority sodesignated in this behalf by the Goverment of Jammu and Kashmir to the effectthat he had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu and Kashmir duringthe period 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989);

5.      Uptothe age of 35 years (upto 40 years for members of Scheduled Castes/ ScheduledTribes and 38 years for OBC) in the case of widows, porced women and womenjudicially separated from their husbands and who are not remarried subject toproduction of copy of the judgement/decree of the appropriate Court to provethe fact of porce or of the judicial separation;

6.      Uptoa maximum of three years (8 years for SC/ST and 6 years for OBCs candidates) inthe case of Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with anyforeign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence there of.

7.      Upperage limit is also relaxable for retrenched employees of Chukha Hydel ProjectAuthority in Bhutanwho were directly recruited, to the extent of service rendered by them with theAuthority (period of service rendered by the retrenched employees will bedecided on the basis of certificate issued by the Chukha Hydel ProjectAuthority).

Note: Other Backward Class(OBC)for the purpose of age Relaxation and Reservation will mean ?Persons of OBCcategory not belonging to the Creamy Layer?? as defined in Government of India,Department of Personnel & Training OM No. 36012/22/93-Estt. (SCT) dated08.09.1993 and modified vide Goverment of India Department of Personnel andTraining OMs No. 36033/3/2004 - Estt(Res) dated 09.03.2004 and 14.10.2008.

4 (C) Age concession for Ex-S will be allowed inaccordance with the extant Goverment orders issued by the Government from timeto time as indicated below:

Ex-Servicemen, fulfilling the conditions laiddown by the Goverment from time to time, shall be allowed to deduct militaryservice from their actual age and such resultant age should not exceed theprescribed age limit by more than 3 years ( 6 years in case of OBC and 8 yearsin case of SC/ST ).

Note: Candidates admitted to theexamination under this age concession will be eligible to compete for all thevacancies whether reserved or not for exservicemen.

Explanation: An Ex-Servicemanmeans a person who has served in any rank whether as a combatant ornon-combatant in the Regular Army, Navy, Air Force of the Indian Union, and

        i.           Who retired from such service after earning his/herpension. This would also include persons who are retired/retire at their ownrequest but after having earned their pension; or

      ii.           Who has been released from such service on medicalgrounds attributable to military service/circumstances beyond his control andawarded medical or other disability pension; or

     iii.           Who has been released, otherwise than on his ownrequest from such service as a result of reduction in establishment; or

    iv.           Who has been released from such service aftercompleting the specific period of engagements, otherwise than at his ownrequest or by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct orinefficiency, and has been given a gratuity; and includes personnel of theTerritorial Army of the following categories, namely :-

1. Pension holders for continuous embodied service,
2. Persons with disability attributable to military service; and
3. Gallantry award winners.

Note-I: Ex-servicemen who havealready joined government job in civil side after availing of the benefitsgiven to ex-servicemen for their re-employment are also eligible for the ageconcession.

However, such candidates will not be eligible forthe benefit of reservation as Ex-S or for fee concession.

Note-II: The period of"Call up Service" of an Ex-Serviceman in the Armed Forces shall alsobe treated as service rendered in the Armed Forces for the purpose of Para 4(C)above.

Note-III: For any Serviceman ofthe three Armed Forces of the Union to be treated as Ex-Serviceman for thepurpose of securing the benefits of reservation, he must have already acquired,at the relevant time of submitting his application for the Post/Service, thestatus of ex-serviceman and/or is in a position to establish his acquiredentitlement by documentary evidence from the competent authority that he wouldcomplete specified term of engagement from the Armed Forces within thestipulated period of one year from the CLOSING DATE (i.e. 30.01.2009).

Note-IV: Age Concession is notAdmissible to the sons, Daughters and Dependents of Ex-Servicemen.

Explanation: The persons servingin the Armed Forces of the Union, who on retirement from service, would comeunder the category of 'ex-serviceman' may be permitted to apply forre-employment one year before the completion of the specified terms ofengagements and avail themselves of all concessions available to ex-servicemenbut shall not be permitted to leave the uniform until they complete thespecified term of engagement in the Armed Forces of the Union.

Important: The format ofcertificates/undertaking to be submitted by the candidates claiming thebenefits/concessions as Ex-Serviceman, are given in Annexure IV & V.

4 (D) Age-Relaxation For CentralGovernment Civilian Employees:

As per Recruitment Rules, the followingage-relaxation is available to Central Government Civilian Employees:

        i.           In CPWD: Not exceeding 35 years (40years for SC/ST and 38 years for OBC).

      ii.           In MES: Not exceeding 32 years (37years for SC/ST and 35 years for OBC)

Candidates will be selected on the basis of markssecured, keeping in view the eligibility in respect of age also.

Candidates falling in this category, aretherefore advised to indicate eligibility in column 16(b) of Application Formkeeping in view their eligibility in respect of age.

4 (E) Process of Certification and Formatof Certificates:

The details of the categories of disabilitiesallowed/eligible for the posts in accordance with extant guidelines of M/SocialJustice & Empowerment to be recruited through the instant examination areas follows:

Nature of physical Disabilities permissible forthe post One Arm(OA), One Leg(OL), Both Legs(BL), Partially Deaf(PD), Deaf(D)

Candidates who wish to be considered againstvacancies reserved/or seek age-relaxation, must submit requisite certificatefrom the competent authority alongwith their application for the examination,otherwise, their claim for SC/ST/OBC/PH/ExS status will not be entertained andtheir candidature/applications will be considered under General category(Unreserved)candidates.

The nature & format of Certificateare as under:

       I.           Annexure III for Central Goverment Civilian Employees;

    II.           Annexure IV/V for ExS category candidates;

  III.           Annexure VI for SC/ST category candidates;

  IV.           Annexure VII for OBC category candidates;and

    V.           Annexure VIII for PH category candidates

Note-I: Candidates claiming thebenefit of reservation under OBC category not covered under the Creamy Layermust ensure that they furnish the OBC Certificate duly signed by the competentauthority before or on the Closing Date in the Format prescribed by theCommission in the Notice as Annexure-VII.

Any deviation of the OBC Certificate from thepresent prescribed format will not be accepted by the Commission and will leadsuch applications to be treated under General (Unreserved) category.

Representations from candidates forreconsideration of their category at subsequent stages of the recruitment willnot be entertained.

The Commission will however have thediscretionary power to reduce/waive off any of the provisions in exceptionaland deserving cases.

Note:II The closing date forreceipt of application will be treated as the date of reckoning for consideringthe OBC status of the candidate and also, for assuming that the candidate doesnot fall in the creamy layer.

Note-III: Candidates are warnedthat they may be permanently debarred from the examination conducted by theCommission in case candidates fraudulently claim SC/ST/OBC/ExS/PH status.

4 (F) Important Requirement of PHCertificate

        i.           According to the Persons with Disabilities (EqualOpportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Rules, 1996notified on 31.12.1996 by the Central Government in exercise of the powersconferred by sub-Section (1) and (2) of Section 73 of the Persons withDisabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation)Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), authorities to give disability Certificate will be aMedical Board duly constituted by the Central and the State Government. TheState government may constitute a Medical Board consisting of at least threemembers out of which at least one shall be a specialist in the particular fieldfor assessing locomotor / hearing and speech disability, mental retardation andleprosy cured, as the case may be.

      ii.           The certificate would be valid for a period of 5 yearsfor those whose disability is temporary. For those who acquired permanentdisability, the validity can be shown as ?permanent?.

5. Minimum Essential Educational Qualifications:(As on 30th January, 2009)

Diploma in Civil or Electrical or MechanicalEngineering from an Institute recognized by the Central Government orequivalent qualification.

Note-I: As per clarificatoryreference received vide CPWD?s letter No. A-12021/4/2004-ECVI/III dated27.1.2006, the candidates with following qualifications are also eligible:-

1.      Degreein Civil/Electrical/Mechancial Engineering;

2.      AMIE(SectionA & B) in Civil/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering of the Institution ofEngineers(India);

3.      Diplomain Electrical and Electronic;

4.      B.E.Electrical (Electronics/Power);

5.      Diplomain Civil and structural Engineering;

6.      B.E.in Electronics and Power Engineering;

7.      Degree/Diplomain Civil and Rural Engineering;

8.      B.Sc(Civil Engineering)

Note-II: Candidates who do notfulfill at least the minimum educational qualification as on the stipulateddate are not eligible and need not apply for the post.

Note-III: All candidates who aredeclared qualified by the Commission for taking the Interview will be requiredto produce at the time of Interview, the relevant Certificates in Original asproof of acquiring the minimum educational qualification as laid down in theNotice as a result of which the candidate has claimed to be educationallyqualified on the date mentioned above, failing which the candidature of suchcandidates will be cancelled by the Commission.

Note-IV: Ex-S who have donevarious courses from Air Force which are certified by Air Force Authority thatthey are equivalent to Mechanical/Electrical Engineering are eligible to appearin the Examination.

Note-V: Degree/Diploma etc.obtained by candidates from open Universities/Distance education will not beaccepted unless the same is accompanied by a certificate that the course isrecognized by Distance Education Council in terms of Min. of Human ResourceDevelopment Notification No. 44 published in Gazette of India dated 8.4.1995for the relevant period when the candidate has acquired the relevantqualification.

16. The examination will be conducted in two stages:

1. Written Test (500 marks)
2. Interview (100 marks)

A. Written Test: Paper I. (Objective Multiple Choice Type)

Note - 1: Paper-I and Paper-IIwould consist of Part A(Civil & Structural) and Part B (Electrical &Mechancial) and the candidate will be required to attempt any one part ofPaper-I and Paper-II, as per option given in the Application Form by thecandidate.(In other words, the candidates appearing for the post of JuniorEngineer(Civil) should attempt only Part A (Civil & Structural) of Paper-Iand Paper-II and the candidates appearing for the post of JuniorEngineer(Electrical) should attempt Part B (Electrical & Mechancial) ofPaper-I and Paper-II failing which he/she would be awarded Zero marks.

Note-2: Candidates should bringtheir own Slide ?Rule, Non Programmable Calculator, Logarithm Tables and SteamTable for Paper-II only.

Note-3: Answer-sheets ofPaper-II (Conventional Type) will be evaluated in respect of only thosecandidates who qualify in Paper I at the standard as decided/fixed by theCommission at its discretion.

Note-4: Questions in both thepapers will be bilingual (English/Hindi). Candidates will have the choice toanswer the questions for Paper II (Conventional Type/ Descriptive) either inEnglish or in Hindi.

However, if the candidates write the answerspartly in one language and partly in another language, their answer scriptswill not be evaluated and they will be awarded Zero marks.

Note 5: Candidates must writethe papers in their own hand. in no circumstances will they be allowed the helpof a scribe to write the answers for them.

Note-6: In questions involvingnumerals etc., only the Metric system of weight and measures will be used.

B. Personality Test(Interview): 100 marks

Note-I: Only those candidateswho secure in the written examination at least the minimum qualifying marks asmay be fixed by the Commission at their discretion, will be eligible to appearat the Interview. The interview will be held at the Commission'sRegional/Sub-Regional Offices.

Note-II: SC/ST candidates calledfor interview will be paid TA as per Goverment Orders. However no TA is payableto any candidate for appearing in the written Examination. Canvassing in anyform will disqualify the candidate.

Note-III: DepartmentalExaminations: Persons recruited through this examination will be on probationfor a period of two years during which they will undergo such training and passsuch departmental tests as may be prescribed by the Government from time totime.

Failure to show sufficient progress in the courseof training or to pass the tests may result in removal from service.

Note-IV: Promotion: Personsrecruited to the grade of Junior Engineers in CPWD will be eligible forpromotion to the grade of Assistant Engineer( Civil ) or Assistant Engineer (Electrical ) in the Central Engineering Service Group 'B' and CentralElectrical Engineering Service Group 'B' in the scale of Pay ofRs.6500-200-10,500/-(prerevised) in accordance with notified recruitment rulesfor the post of Aeronatical Engineering (Civil) and Aeronatical Engineering(Electronics).