Age Relaxation

Age relaxation permissible for IES exam is as per table below Code No. Category Age Relaxation Permissible 01 SC and ST 5 years 02 OBC 3 years 03 Certain categories of Departmental Government servants who are covered under Note1 below 5 years 04 Departmental Government Servants (as against Code No.03) + SC/ST 10 years 05 Departmental Government Servants (as against Code No.03) + OBC 8 years 06 Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons. 10 years 07 Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons + SC/ST 15 years 08 Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons + OBC 13 years 09 Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons +Departmental Govt. Servants (as againstCode No. 03) 15 years 10 Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons + SC/ST +Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 20 years 11 Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons + OBC + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 18 years 12 Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof. 3 years 13 Defence Services Personnel (as against Code No. 12) + SC/ST 8 years 14 Defence Services Personnel (as against Code No. 12) + OBC 6 years 15 Defence Services Personnel (as against Code No. 12) + Departmental Govt.Servants (as against Code No. 03) 8 years 16 Defence Services Personnel (as against Code No. 12) + SC/ST + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 13 years 17 Defence Services Personnel (as against Code No. 12) + OBC + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 11 years 18 Ex-Servicemen including Commissioned offices and ECOs/ SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st August, 2008 and have been released (i) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1st August, 2008) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency; or (ii) on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service; or (iii) on invalidment. 5 years 19 Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 18) + SC/ST 10 years 20 Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 18) + OBC 8 years 21 Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 18) + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 10 years 22 Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers Servants and ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 18) + SC/ST + Departmental Govt. (as against Code No. 03) 15 years 23 Ex-Servicemem including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 18) + OBC + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 13 years 24 ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as on 1st August, 2008 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 that they will be released on three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment. 5 years 25 ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 24) + SC/ST 10 years 26 ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 24) + OBC 8 years 27 ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 24) + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 10 years 28 ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 24) + SC/ST + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 15 years 29 ECOs/SSCOs (as against Code No. 24) + OBC +Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 13 years 30 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1st January, 1980 to 31st December, 1989 5 years 31 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K (as against Code No. 30) + SC/ST 10 years 32 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K (as against Code No. 30) + OBC 8 years 33 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K (as against Code No. 30) + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 10 years 34 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K (as against Code No. 30) + ST/CT + Departmental Govt. Servants (as against Code No. 03) 15 years 35 Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of J & K (as against Code No. 30) + OBC + Departmental Govt.Servants (as against Code No. 03) 13 years Note1 The upper age-limit of 30 years will be relaxable upto 35 years in the case of Government servants of the following categories, if they are employed in a Department/Office under the control of any of the authorities mentioned in column 1 below and apply for admission to the examination for all or any of the Service(s)/Posts mentioned in column 2, for which they are otherwise eligible.   - A candidate who holds substantively a permanent post in the particular Department/Office concerned. This relaxation will not be admissible to a probationer appointed against a permanent post in the Department/Office during the period of his probation.   - A candidate who has been continuously in a temporary service on a regular basis in the particular Department/Office for at least 3 years on the 1st August, 2008.<br Column 1 Column 2 Railway Department I.R.S.E. I.R.S.M.E. I.R.S.E.E. I.R.S.S.E. I.R.S.S. Central Public Works Department C.E.S.—Group ‘A’ C.E. & M.E.S., Group ‘A’ Military Engineers Service, Army Headquarters Indian Defence Service of Engineers (IDSE) Directorate General Ordnance Factories I.O.F.S. Group A Central Water Commission C.W.E. Service (Group A) Central Electricity Authority CPE Service (Group A) Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organisation Engineer (Group 'A') Indian Navy Indian Naval Armament Service,Assistant Naval Store Officer Grade I Border Roads Organisation Border Roads Engineering Service. Geological Survey of India, M/o Science & Technology Drilling Engineer (Jr.) Gr. 'A' Survey of India Service Gr. 'A' Directorate Central of Supply and Disposal ISS Group A, IIS Group A Ministry of Communication and IT, Deptt of Telecommunications P&T Building Works Group A Service (Civil) NOTE—The period of apprenticeship if followed by appointment against a working posts on the Railways may be treated as Railway Service for the purpose of age concession.