| Category | Relaxation by years |
| Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes | 5 years |
| Other Backward Classes | 3 years |
| Persons With Disability | 0 years |
| Ex-serviceman | 3 years ( in addition to the actual period of service in the Defence forces
subject to a maximum age of 50 years) |
| Widows, Divorced women and women Judiciously separated from their husbands, who are not remarried. | 9 years subject to a maximum of 35 years for General Category, 38 years for OBC and 40 years for SC/ST Category candidates. |
| Persons ordinarily domiciled in the Kashmir Division of the State of Jammu and Kashmir during the period from 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989 |
5 years (Certificate to this effect from the competent authority to be produced at the time of interview) |
| The children/family members of those who died in the 1984 riots |
5 years |