Can relaxation in the educational qualification prescribed in recruitment rules for a specific post be granted and which authority is competent to grant such relaxation?
Ans: Head of Department concerned is competent to relax temporarily educational qualifications as prescribed in the relevant recruitment rules in the case of appointment at the lowest level e.g. Group ‘D’ or Lower Division Clerk post in exceptional circumstances where the conditional of the family is very hard provided there is no vacancy meant for compassionate appointment in a post for which the dependent family member in question is educationally qualified. Such relaxation will be permitted upto a period of two years beyond which no relaxation of educational qualifications will be admissible and the services of the person concerned, if still unqualified, are liable to be terminated. It is also clarified that where a widow is appointed on compassionate ground to a Group ‘D’ Post, she will be exempted from the requirement of possessing the educational qualifications prescribed in the relevant rules provided the duties of the post can be satisfactorily performed by her without possessi
