Direct Recruitment by Competitive examination

Direct Recruitment by Competitive examination.—(1) A competitive examination for direct recruitment to the service shall be held at such intervals as, the Appointing Authority may, in consultation with the Board, from time to time, determine.

1. (2) The examination shall be conducted by the Board in accordance with such orders, as the Appointing Authority may, from time to time issue in consultation with the Board.
2. (3) 16 percent and 20 percent of the available vacancies for direct recruitment shall be reserved for candidates who are members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively. In filling the vacancies so reserved, Candidates, who are members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, shall be considered for appointment in order in which the names appear in the list referred to in rule 12 irrespective of their relative rank as compared with other candidates.
3. (4) Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes recommended by the Board for appointment to the service, with due regard to maintenance of the efficiency of Administration may appointed to the vacancies reserved for the candidates of the Scheduled Castes or the Schedule Tribes, as the case may be, under sub-rule (3).
4. (5) If sufficient number of candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are not available for filling all the vacancies reserved for them, the remaining vacancies shall be re-advertised twice exclusively for these candidates, if even after re-advertisement any vacancies remain unfilled they shall be filled from among the general candidates and an equivalent number of additional vacancies shall be reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as the case may be, during the subsequent examination/selection: Provided that the total number of vacancies reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (including the vacancies carried forward), shall not at any time exceed 45 percent of the total vacancies advertised.