Vacancy Number	25060836228
Post	ASSISTANT LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL (REGIONAL LANGUAGES)
Classification
Ministry/Administration	Ministry of Law and Justice
Department/Office	Legislative Department
Organisation	Official Languages Wing

Number of Posts and Reservation

UR	EWS	OBC	SC	ST	PwBD	Total
9	1	2	1	1	1	14

PwBD Reservation Details

PwBD Type	PwBD Category
Blindness or Low Vision	B-Blind
Blindness or Low Vision	LV-Low Vision

Post Description

Pay Scale	Level 11 (Rs. 67,700 -2,08,700) in the Pay Matrix.
Age	Not exceeding 40 years as on normal closing date. Not exceeding 45 years for Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe candidates as on normal closing date in respect of the vacancies reserved for them. Not exceeding 43 years for Other Backward Classes candidates as on normal closing date in respect of the vacancies reserved for them. Relaxable for regularly appointed Central/U.T. Government Servant upto Five years as per instructions/orders issued by Govt. of India from time to time. For age concession applicable to some other categories of applicants, please see relevant paras of the ‘Instructions and Additional Information to Candidates for Recruitment by Selection.’
Essential Qualification (s)	A. EDUCATIONAL- (i) Masters Degree in Law from a recognised University or Institution and (ii) Passed Secondary School Examination or any higher examination from a recognised Board or University or Institution through medium of concerned language (one of the languages other than Hindi mentioned in the Eight Schedule to the Constitution) or had offered the concerned language as a subject in Secondary School Examination or any higher examination from a recognised Board or University or any institution or foreign University approved by the Central Government. OR (i) Bachelors Degree in Law from a recognised University or Institution and (ii) Passed Secondary School Examination or any higher examination from a recognised Board or University or Institution through medium of concerned language (one of the languages other than Hindi mentioned in the Eight Schedule to the Constitution) or had offered the concerned language as a subject in Secondary School Examination or any higher examination from a recognised Board or University or any institution or foreign University approved by the Central Government. B.EXPERIENCE (a) For Master’s Degree in law holders Possessing the following- a member of State Judicial Service for a period of five years or a Central or State or Union Territory Government Servant or an executive or officer in a Public Sector Undertaking or Statutory Body or Autonomous Body who has had experience in legal affairs for five years or a qualified legal practitioner who has practised as such for five years or a teacher of law for five years in a recognised institution or five years experience of translation into the concerned language (one of the languages, other than Hindi, mentioned in the Eight Schedule to the Constitution) of statutes, statutory rules and orders in the Central Government or State Government or Union Territory or five years experience of drafting of statutes in the Central Government or State Government or Union Territory. OR (b). For Bachelor’s Degree in law holders- Possessing the following- a member of State Judicial Service for a period of seven years or a Central or State or Union Territory Government Servant or an executive or officer in a Public Sector Undertaking or Statutory Body or Autonomous Body who has had experience in legal affairs for seven years or a qualified legal practitioner who has practised as such for seven years or a teacher of law for seven years in a recognised institution or seven years experience of translation into the concerned language (one of the languages, other than Hindi, mentioned in the Eight Schedule to the Constitution) of statutes, statutory rules and orders in the Central Government or the State Government or Union Territory or seven years experience of drafting of statutes in the Central Government or the State Government or Union Territory. Note 1- The expression qualified legal practitioner used in the essential qualifications means a person who is an advocate or a pleader and has practised as such for five years in case of Masters Degree in Law or seven years in case of Bachelors Degree in Law. Note 2- The term experience in legal affairs means holding of a substantive legal post under the Government or Public Sector Undertaking or Statutory Body or Autonomous Body for which Bachelors Degree in Law is a prerequisite or essential qualification for recruitment. Note 3- The qualification are relaxable at the discretion of the Union Public Service Commission in case of candidates otherwise well qualified. Note 4- The qualification(s) regarding experience is/are relaxable at the discretion of the Union Public Service Commission, for reasons to be recorded in writing, in the case of candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, if at any stage of selection the Union Public Service Commission is of the opinion that sufficient number of candidates from these communities possessing the requisite experience are not likely to be available to fill up the vacancies reserved for them. N.B. The language wise and category-wise break-up of 14 vacancies are as under- Assamese, 01 UR; Bengali, 01 UR; Gujarati, 01 OBC; Kannada, 01 UR; Konkani, 01 SC; Maithili, 01 UR; Malayalam, 01 EWS; Manipuri, 01 UR; Odia, 01 ST; Punjabi, 01 UR; Sanskrit, 01 UR; Tamil, 01 UR; Telugu, 01 OBC; Urdu*, 01 UR *01 vacancy for Urdu language is reserved only for PwBD candidates.
Desirable Qualification (s)	Qualification-Bachelors degree from a recognised University or Institution with the language (one of the languages other than Hindi mentioned in the Eight Schedule to the Constitution) concerned as a subject or medium at degree level. Experience-Five years experience of legislative drafting in the language (one of the languages other than Hindi mentioned in the Eight Schedule to the Constitution) concerned in Central or State Government.
Duty(ies)	Preparation of authenticated translation of Central Statutes, Statutory Rules and Regulation etc. in concerned language and give general assistance to Joint Secretary and Legislative Counsel (Hindi Branch) of Official Languages Wing.
Probation	ONE YEAR
Headquarters	New Delhi
Other Details	General Central Service, Group ‘A’, Gazetted, Non-Ministerial. The post is permanent.
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