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Part II - Section 3

केन्द्र-शासित प्रदेश लद्दाख प्रशािन

ADMINISTRATION OF UNION TERRITORY OF LADAKH

File No.: A/330/2025-GAD SEC

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

Subject: Grant of relaxation of upper age limit for Direct Recruitment to Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Gazetted

Posts in the Union territory of Ladakh

Order No.: 280-LA(GAD) of 2025

Dated: 30.06.2025

WHEREAS, Rule 7 of the Recruitment Rules (RRs) for the various Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Gazetted

Posts, notified by the Administration of Union Territory of Ladakh in consultation with the Union Public Service

Commission, provides that nothing in these RRs shall affect reservations, relaxation in the upper age limit, and other

concessions required to be provided for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and other special categories in

accordance with instructions issued by the Administration of the Union territory of Ladakh;

लद्दाख, 30 जून, 2025

LADAKH, MONDAY, JUNE, 30, 2025

भारत सरकार

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

एस.जी.-एल.डी.-अ.-30062025-1543

SG-LD-E-30062025-1543

LADAKH GAZETTE : EXTRAORDINARY 2

WHEREAS, the Reserved Categories in respect of the Union territory of Ladakh are those Reserved

Categories as provided under the Union territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Rules, 2025 notified vide

S.O. 77 dated 27.06.2025;

WHEREAS, the matter of age relaxation for Reserved Categories for direct recruitment to Group ‘A’ and

Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts has been examined in light of the guidelines issued by the Department of Personnel and

Training (DoPT), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India, vide O.M. No.

DoPT-1667569393892 dated 06.09.2022;

WHEREAS, it has been decided that age relaxations, as provided in the DoPT guidelines, shall apply to

the Reserved Categories as provided under the Union territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Regulation,

2025 read with the Union territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Rules, 2025;

WHEREAS, the Reserved Category of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes, namely Residents of

Areas Adjoining the Actual Line of Control (ALC), is not covered under DoPT guidelines. The residents in these

areas are deprived of certain social and educational facilities, on account of the remoteness and inaccessibility to the

mainstream of governance and administration;

WHEREAS, taking into account the difficulties these residents of Areas Adjoining the Actual Line of

Control (ALC) have to encounter in their day-to-day living, it has been decided to provide 05 (five) years upper age

relaxation to this Reserved Category also;

AND WHEREAS, in view of the exceptional circumstances wherein no direct recruitment to Group ‘A’

and Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts could be conducted in the Union territory of Ladakh since its creation on 31^st October,

2019; primarily due to the absence of a legal framework relating to the residency criteria (as provided by Rule 4 of

the RRs to various Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts), and in order to compensate for the period during

which eligible aspirants could not participate in recruitment processes; it would be expedient in larger public interest

to grant, as a one-time special dispensation, an additional relaxation of 05 (five) years in the age limit prescribed in

column no. 6 of the Schedule to the notified RR’s to various Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts; for the

recruitment to be conducted during the recruitment years of 2025 and 2026.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Administration of the Union territory of Ladakh, hereby orders the following

provisions for age relaxation in direct recruitment to Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Gazetted posts, shall be made, as

under:

Age Relaxation for Reserved Categories:

The upper age limit prescribed for direct recruitment shall be relaxable for candidates belonging to the

following Reserved Categories, as provided under the Union territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment)

Regulation, 2025, subject to the conditions specified:

No.

Category

Age

Relaxation

Conditions

Scheduled Castes (SC) / Scheduled Tribes

(ST)

05 years

Candidates must provide a

valid Caste / Tribe certificate issued by

competent

authority

the

Administration of Union territory of

Ladakh.

Hold a Domicile Certificate

under the category as is provided at S.

No. 1 & Sl. No. 2 in column II in the

Table under Rule 4 of the Ladakh

Civil Services Decentralization and

Recruitment - Grant of Domicile

Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2025.

LADAKH GAZETTE : EXTRAORDINARY 3

Socially and Educationally Backward

Classes namely Residents of Areas

Adjoining the Actual Line of Control

(ALC)

05 years

Candidates must provide a

valid certificate of being a member of

the

Socially

and

Educationally

Backward Classes namely Residents

of Areas Adjoining the Actual Line of

Control (ALC) issued by a competent

authority in the Administration of

Union territory of Ladakh.

Hold a Domicile Certificate

under the category as is provided at S.

No. 1 & Sl. No. 2 in column II in the

Table under Rule 4 of the Ladakh

Civil Services Decentralization and

Recruitment - Grant of Domicile

Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2025.

Persons with Benchmark Disabilities

(PwBD)

years

(General); 15

years

(SC/ST); and

years

(ALC)

Applicable to posts identified

as suitable for PwBD with a minimum

40% disability, subject to a maximum

age of 56 years on the crucial date, as

per DoPT O.M. No. 15012/1/2003-

Estt(D) dated 29.06.2015.

PwBD