CM KCR relaxes upper age limit for police jobs by two more years

Hyderabad: Much to the delight of police job aspirants, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday approved relaxation of the upper age limit by two more years for recruitment to the uniformed jobs in the State Police department. Accordingly, orders have been issued enhancing the upper age limit relaxation by a total five years for the uniformed services.

MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy took up with the Chief Minister about the increasing requests from job aspirants to enhance the upper age limit, following the implementation of 95 per cent job quota for locals first time and also the impact of Corona pandemic for the past two years. Upon considering these requests, the Chief Minister responded positively and instructed the officials concerned.

Earlier, the State government relaxed the upper age limit for the uniformed government jobs by three years. As per the notification released in April this year, the upper age limit for police, fire, prison, SPF, excise, transport and forest departments has been increased by three years. The age limit relaxation will be valid for two years, the notification stated.

The upper age limit for the direct recruitment of non-uniformed jobs has been already raised by 10 years in March this year.

The notification was issued to fill up 17,291 uniformed posts in the State. On the last day for submission of applications on Friday evening, about 5.5 lakh candidates submitted around 9.5 lakh applications including 2.06 lakh applications from women, through the Police Recruitment Board website.

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