Need for rising most age restrict for recruitment because of COVID pandemic doesn’t come up: Centre

The want for rising the utmost age restrict for recruitment to numerous classes of posts underneath the central authorities, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown within the nation, doesn’t come up, the Rajya Sabha was knowledgeable on Thursday.
“Insofar as the increase in maximum age limit by two years for all the eligible unemployed youths, who are seeking state government jobs is concerned, it is for the concerned state governments to decide,” Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh stated in a written reply.
The minister was responding to a query whether or not the federal government is contemplating to extend most age restrict by two years for all of the eligible unemployed youths, who’re searching for central and state authorities jobs as they misplaced their probabilities because of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown within the nation.
For recruitment to central authorities posts, the recruiting businesses, such because the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), have been making needed preparations for conduct of examinations in a protected method contemplating the COVID-19 pandemic security protocols, Singh stated.
While conducting civil companies (preliminary) examination-2020 on October 4 final yr, the UPSC additionally gave an choice to the candidates to vary the centre for civil companies (preliminary) examination-2020 in order that candidates who had moved to a unique location earlier than/through the COVID-19 pandemic may additionally seem within the examination, he stated.
“As such, the need for increasing the maximum age limit for recruitment to various categories of posts under the central government due to the pandemic and lockdown in the country does not arise,” the minister stated.