Application invited for the post of high court assistant - Apply Online Now
NOTIFICATION
Applications are invited from qualified Indian Citizens for appointment to the following post
in the High Court of Kerala. Candidate shall apply online through the Recruitment Portal
( www.hckrecruitment. keralacourts. in). No other means/modes of application will be accepted.
1. Name of the Post : Assistant
2. Scale of Pay : 39300 – 83000
1. As per The Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the Kerala High Court Service
Rules, 2007, 4% of vacancies are reserved for eligible differently abled candidates
(Candidates with (a) low vision (b) deaf and hard of hearing (c) locomotor disability
including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular
dystrophy (d) autism, specific learning disability and mental illness (e) multiple
disabilities from amongst persons under clause (a) to (d)) in direct recruitment (Rec.No.
5/2024). The eligibility for reservation in the case of differently abled candidates
belonging to the categories a) blind and b) intellectual disability, in both recruitments
(Rec. Nos. 4/2024 & 5/2024), is pending decision of the High Court.
2. The online application form is common for the Recruitment Nos. 4/2024 and 5/2024.
Differently abled candidates applying for more than one recruitment should not apply
separately. While applying, they should select both the recruitment numbers. Selection
process is common for both the above recruitment numbers. If the candidate apply
separately, he/she will lose common candidature for the recruitments.
3. Ranked Lists will be prepared for each recruitment number in pursuance of this
notification. The ranked list so prepared for Rec No.4/2024, shall remain in force until
candidates are advised and appointed against the vacancies earmarked for the differently
abled candidates.
4. The ranked lists prepared for general vacancies (Rec No. 5/2024) shall remain in force for
a minimum period of one year from the date on which it is brought into force and shall
continue to remain in force until the publication of a fresh list or till the expiry of two
years, whichever is earlier. Vacancies that may arise during the period of validity of the
ranked list shall also be filled up from the list.
3. Age Limit :
(i) Candidates born between 02/01/1988 and 01/01/2006 (both days inclusive) are
eligible to apply.
(ii) Candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes born between
02/01/1983 and 01/01/2006 (both days inclusive) are eligible to apply.
(iii) Candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes born between 02/01/1985 and
01/01/2006 (both days inclusive) are eligible to apply.
(iv) Candidates who are the members of the High Court Service working in the
categories having pay scales below that of Assistant born between 02/01/1984 and
01/01/2006 (both days inclusive) are eligible to apply. Candidates claiming age
relaxation under this clause shall take their chances for appointment purely on the
basis of merit and shall be considered against open competition vacancies only.
(v) A candidate who is an Ex-serviceman or ex-General Reserve Engineer Force person
or a disembodied Territorial Army person, in reckoning the age for his eligibility for
appointment can exclude the period of his service in the defence forces or in the
General Reserve Engineer Force or in the Territorial Army, as the case may be, and
the period of unemployment on discharge upto a maximum of five years provided he
has not completed the age of 50 years.
(vi) Age concession upto 15 years will be granted to candidates belonging to Blindness
and Low Vision and Deaf and hard of hearing categories and 10 years to candidates
belonging to other categories of disabilities subject to the condition that in no case
upper age limit shall exceed 50 years.
(vii) Age relaxation upto 5 years will be granted to widows, subject to the condition that
in no case upper age limit shall exceed 50 years.
4. Qualifications :
Bachelor's degree with at least 50% marks OR Master’s Degree OR Law Degree,
awarded or recognised by any of the Universities in Kerala.
Desirable: Knowledge in Computer Operations.
Note i) If a candidate possesses only Bachelor Degree with less than 50% marks,
he/she is not eligible to apply for the post. Rounding off to the nearest
integer is not allowed. (For eg. 49.5% cannot be rounded off to 50%).
SC/ST candidates are exempted from the stipulation of minimum 50% marks
in the Bachelors’ Degree Course.
ii) Wherever CGPA/OGPA or letter grade is awarded in a qualifying
examination, equivalent percentage of marks should be indicated in the
application form as per norms adopted by University/Institute where
candidate studied. Candidate shall also obtain a certificate to this effect
from University/Institute which shall be required at the time of certificate
verification.
iii) Candidates must have acquired all the qualifications on or before the date
of closure of filing of online application. The date of passing eligibility
examination will be the date appearing on the mark sheet or provisional
certificate issued by the University/Institute.
5. Mode of Selection : The selection will be on the basis of Objective Test, Descriptive Test
and interview. The Objective Test will be for 100 Marks to be answered in OMR Answer
Sheet and Descriptive Test for 60 marks to be written on separate answer sheets.
Immediately after the Objective Test, Descriptive Test will be administered.
(i) Objective Test: The Objective Test will have 100 questions. Each question will carry
1 mark and for every incorrect answer, 1/4 mark will be deducted. Duration of the Test
will be 75 minutes and the topics are as follows:
A) General English – 50 marks,
B) General Knowledge – 40 Marks
(Facts about India & Kerala, Constitution of India, General Science &
Information Technology and Current Affairs)
C) Basic Mathematics & Reasoning – 10 marks.
(ii) Descriptive Test: The Descriptive Test with 60 minutes duration (60 Marks) consists
of precis, comprehension and short essays.
(iii) Interview: The interview is for 10 marks. The minimum marks for being included in
the ranked list will be 35% in the interview.
Application Fee: 500/- (Rupees Five hundred only). Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes / ₹
Unemployed Differently abled candidates with benchmark disabilities are exempted from
payment of application fee. For payment of fee, candidates should either use system generated
Fee Payment Challan or pay online through Debit Card/ Credit Card/Net Banking by following
instructions on the screen. Bank Transaction charges for Payment of application fee, if
applicable, will have to be borne by the candidate.
7. Scribe/ Compensatory time for Differently abled candidates in written test
(i) Differently abled candidates whose writing speed is affected can avail the services of
a scribe. Such candidates should indicate their intention to avail the service of scribe
in their online application form and also confirm the same in the profile of the
candidate which will be visible after declaration of the date of the examination. Only
those candidates who confirm their intention to use the service of scribe in their
profile will be allowed to use the service of scribe.
(ii) The use of scribe will be governed by the guidelines prescribed by the High Court
and candidates will have to produce a medical certificate and declaration at the time
of test in the prescribed format available in the recruitment portal,
( www. hckrecruitment.keralacourts.in). The qualification of the scribe shall be atleast
one step below the minimum qualification prescribed for the post applied for by the candidate.
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