Section 4 in Home Guards Organisation, (Departmental Examination) Rules, 2012
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In order to be eligible for promotion to the post of Senior Clerk or Head Clerk in the Home Guards Organisation, a Clerk, who has passed the lower level departmental examination or has been exempted from passing it shall have to pass the higher grade departmental Examination within three chances and within three years from the appointed date or six years from the date of his appointment as a Clerk, whichever is later:Provide that no Clerk shall be entitled to appear at the higher grade departmental examinations until he/she has completed three years service as a clerk:Provided further that if the period prescribed above, expires before the declaration of the result of examination at which he has his/her last chance, the period shall be deemed to have been extended up to the date of declaration of the result of the examination:Provided also that person belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes shall be given one more chance, which shall be availed of within a period of one year from the date of expiry of the period mentioned above:Provided also that the chances for passing the relevant examination under the old rules shall be deemed to have been availed of under these rules and a Clerk, who before the appointed date has availed of any chance under the old rules shall be allowed to avail the remaining chances under these rules.
