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Kerala PSC recruitment notification for the post of Civil Excise Officer (Trainee) in Excise. Category No: 308/2023. Vacancies: District wise (Anticipated Vacancies: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alapuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Kannur, Kasaragod). Scale of Pay: ₹.27900 – 63700/-. Method of Appointment: Recruitment By Transfer. Applications must be submitted online on or before 01-11-2023 through Kerala PSC One Time Registration.

Age limit

Shall not exceed 50 (fifty) years as on 01.01.2023 Check your age for this post with your date of birth and category

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications: • Must have passed the Plus Two examination or its equivalent. Physical Standards: For Recruitment from among the male members of the Last Grade Service in the Excise Department, the minimum height shall be 162 cms and female members the minimum height shall be 152 cms. Must be certified by a Medical Officer in Government Service not below the rank of an Assistant Surgeon/Junior Consultant as to his physique and capacity for active outdoor work. Visual standards without glasses: Distant Vision (Right Eye: 6/6 Snellen, Left Eye: 6/6 Snellen), Near Vision (Right Eye: 0.5 Snellen, Left Eye: 0.5 Snellen). Full field of vision in each eye. Free from colour blindness, squint, morbid conditions, and apparent physical defects like knock knee, flat foot, varicose veins, bow legs, deformed hands and limbs, irregular and protruding teeth, defective speech and hearing. Must qualify in the Endurance Test of completing 2.5 kilometers race within 13 minutes for male candidates and the same distance within 15 minutes for female candidates. Must qualify in any five events out of eight events specified of the National Physical Efficiency Test (One Star Standard Test). Equivalence / KS&SSR Rules: Rule 10(a)(ii) of Part II KS & SSR is applicable. Candidates who have applied with equivalent qualification instead of qualification mentioned in the notification, should produce the relevant Government order to prove their qualifications equivalency at the time of verification.

Vacancies

District wise (Anticipated Vacancies: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alapuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Kannur, Kasaragod)
General conditions from the notification
Applications which are not submitted in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down in the General Conditions are liable to be rejected. Appropriate disciplinary action as per Rule 22 of the Kerala Public Service Commission Rules of Procedure shall be initiated against candidates who submit applications with bogus claims.

This recruitment so far

Matched by category number 308/2023. Steps without a date are not announced yet.

  1. Notification published29 Sept 2023(done)
  2. Last date to apply1 Nov 2023(done)
  3. Exam17 Feb 2024(done)
  4. Rank list13 Jun 2025(done)

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