Question

Which of the following correctly states the intent behind the application of compassionate appointment?

• A. The norms, at the time of death of the government employee will be applicable and not the norms at the time of making an application.
• B. A dependent of a government employee cannot demand consideration of his/her application
• C. The norms of the governmental or public authorities are not considered while applying for compassionate appointment
• D. The norms prevailing on the date of consideration of the application should be the basis for consideration of claim for compassionate appointment
• A. Compassionate appointment is given to the family members of the deceased irrespective of their financial status.
• B. It is to mitigate the hardship caused to the family members after the death of earning member of the family
• C. Compassionate appointment cannot be granted as a matter of vested right
• D. Compassionate appointment cannot be made in the absence of rules and regulations issued by the government or a public authority
• A. Mr. Y is entitled to get compassionate appointment
• B. Mr. Y is not entitled for compassionate appointment as a long period has elapsed since the death of his father.
• C. Mr. Y is entitled to get compassionate appointment depending on policy of the company in which his father was working
• D. Mr. Y is not entitled to get compassionate appointment as it is the discretion of the company to refuse the said appointment.
• A. The scheme is valid subject to the approval of the dependents
• B. The scheme is not valid as the offer of compassionate appointment to the dependent of a government servant who is medically invalidated is not an exception to the general rule.
• C. The scheme is not valid as it is unconstitutional.
• D. The scheme is valid as it is not arbitrary and the government has the right to formulate such rules.
• A. A request for compassionate appointment by the dependent relatives of the deceased must be preferred without any undue delay
• B. The general rule of appointment may not be always applicable to compassionate appointments.
• C. The immediacy of the need is not the basis for the state to allow the benefit of compassionate appointment.
• D. It is a benefit given to the family members at the time of distress.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The correct Answer is (D)The norms of the governmental or public authorities are not considered while applying for compassionate appointment

Answer 2

This question is about which point in time governs a compassionate appointment claim, the date the employee died, the date the application is filed, or the date the authority actually looks at it. Each option picks a different anchor point, so testing them against how the passage frames the scheme is the quickest way through.

1. Option A (norms at the time of death apply, not the norms at the time of application): This freezes the rule at an earlier moment than the scheme actually looks to. The passage is concerned with the authority's assessment of the family's present financial condition, which points to the situation as it stands when the claim is examined, not as it stood on the date of death.
2. Option B (a dependent cannot demand consideration of the application): This misstates the scheme entirely. The passage describes a process where the authority does examine the family's financial condition and decides whether to offer the job, which presumes the application is considered on its merits, not brushed aside without consideration.
3. Option C (the norms of governmental or public authorities are not considered while applying): This runs directly against the passage, which repeatedly ties the outcome to the authority's own examination of the family's financial condition, meaning the governing norms are very much part of the process.
4. Option D (the norms prevailing on the date of consideration should be the basis): This fits the scheme's own logic. Since the whole scheme exists to meet the family's need at the time it is actually assessed, it is the rules in force when the application is considered, not the rules that existed years earlier at the date of death, that decide the outcome.

Because the scheme is built around assessing present hardship rather than locking in a benefit from the date of death, the applicable norms have to be the ones in force when the claim is actually taken up.

So the correct answer is (D): The norms prevailing on the date of consideration of the application should be the basis for consideration of claim for compassionate appointment.

Answer 3

The correct Answer is (A):Compassionate appointment cannot be made in the absence of rules and regulations issued by the government or a public authority

Answer 4

The question asks which statement about compassionate appointment is wrong, so each option needs to be checked against what the passage actually says the scheme requires.

1. Option A (given irrespective of financial status): This directly contradicts the passage, which says the authority concerned has to examine the financial condition of the family before deciding whether a job is needed to meet the crisis. Financial status is central to the decision, not irrelevant to it, so this statement is false.
2. Option B (mitigates hardship after death of the earning member): This matches the passage's stated purpose, to provide solace and support to the family at the difficult time created by the loss of the breadwinner. This statement is accurate.
3. Option C (cannot be granted as a matter of vested right): This also matches the passage, which says consideration of such employment is not a vested right that can be exercised at any time in the future. This statement is accurate.
4. Option D (cannot be made without rules and regulations from the government or a public authority): This is consistent with how such schemes are described as operating, through a framework of rules laid down by the employer or public authority concerned, so this statement is accurate.

Since B, C and D all track the passage correctly, and A reverses the passage's actual requirement that financial condition be examined, A is the one statement that is not correct.

So the correct answer is (A): Compassionate appointment is given to the family members of the deceased irrespective of their financial status.

Answer 5

The correct Answer is (B): Mr. Y is not entitled for compassionate appointment as a long period has elapsed since the death of his father.

Answer 6

The decisive fact here is timing. Mr. Y's father died in 2000, and Mr. Y made his representation only in January 2018, roughly eighteen years later. The passage is explicit that compassionate appointment cannot be claimed or offered after a significant lapse of time, once the immediate crisis the scheme is meant to address has long passed.

1. Option A (Mr. Y is entitled): This ignores the delay entirely. Whatever financial difficulty the family may have faced in 2000, the scheme is tied to that crisis at the time it occurred, and an eighteen year gap takes the claim well outside that window.
2. Option B (not entitled, as a long period has elapsed since the father's death): This matches the passage's own reasoning directly. Since compassionate appointment is meant to meet an immediate crisis and cannot be exercised as a right at any future time, an eighteen year delay defeats the claim on its own.
3. Option C (entitled depending on the company's policy): This treats the outcome as a matter of discretion under whatever policy the company happens to have, but the passage's rule about delay is not stated as something a company policy can simply override or extend indefinitely; the lapse of time is itself fatal to the claim.
4. Option D (not entitled, as it is the company's discretion to refuse): This reaches the right practical outcome for the wrong reason. The claim fails because too much time has passed since the crisis arose, not because the company happens to have a discretion it chose to exercise against Mr. Y.

The scheme exists to answer an immediate need, and an application filed eighteen years after the triggering death no longer corresponds to any immediate need, which is why the delay itself defeats the claim.

So the correct answer is (B): Mr. Y is not entitled for compassionate appointment as a long period has elapsed since the death of his father.

Answer 7

The correct Answer is (D):The scheme is valid as it is not arbitrary and the government has the right to formulate such rules.

Answer 8

The government here has framed a scheme for a specific sub-category, dependants of employees who retired on medical grounds, and then further narrowed it to those who retired at least five years before their normal retirement age. The question is whether drawing that line makes the scheme invalid.

1. Option A (valid subject to the dependents' approval): This makes no sense as a legal test. Whether a government scheme is valid does not depend on the dependants themselves approving of its terms; validity turns on whether the classification the scheme draws is reasonable, not on consent from the very people the scheme benefits.
2. Option B (not valid, since medical invalidation is not an exception to the general rule): This is factually off. Compassionate appointment to dependants of employees medically invalidated out of service is itself recognised as one form of this exception, so treating it as outside the exception altogether misdescribes the scheme rather than identifying a real flaw in it.
3. Option C (not valid, as it is unconstitutional): This is too strong without more. Governments are allowed to draw reasonable classifications when framing welfare schemes, and a line based on how many years remained before superannuation is a rational way to identify cases of genuine, ongoing need rather than an arbitrary or discriminatory one, so nothing here points to a constitutional violation.
4. Option D (valid, as it is not arbitrary and the government has the right to frame such rules): This fits how such schemes are ordinarily tested. Government bodies have the authority to design the eligibility conditions for a compassionate appointment scheme, and a five year cutoff before superannuation is a rational way to target cases of real hardship rather than picking beneficiaries at random.

A classification survives scrutiny once it is shown to serve a rational purpose, here distinguishing genuine premature-loss-of-livelihood cases from those close to retirement anyway, which is exactly what this scheme does.

So the correct answer is (D): The scheme is valid as it is not arbitrary and the government has the right to formulate such rules.

Answer 9

The correct Answer is (C):The immediacy of the need is not the basis for the state to allow the benefit of compassionate appointment.

Answer 10

This question asks which statement about the nature of compassionate appointment is wrong, and the passage's whole framing of the scheme, as relief for an immediate crisis, is the key to spotting it.

1. Option A (a request must be preferred without undue delay): This matches the passage's own reasoning about lapse of time. Since the scheme answers an immediate crisis, a request has to be made promptly, and this statement is accurate.
2. Option B (the general rule of appointment may not always apply): This is also accurate. Compassionate appointment is described as an exception to the general, merit based rule of appointment, precisely because it responds to a family emergency rather than an ordinary recruitment process.
3. Option C (the immediacy of the need is not the basis for the benefit): This is the one that gets the scheme backwards. The passage repeatedly ties the benefit to the family's present financial crisis and to acting before that crisis passes, which means immediacy of need is exactly the basis for the benefit, not something irrelevant to it.
4. Option D (it is a benefit given at the time of distress): This is accurate and consistent with the passage's description of the scheme as meant to provide solace and support at the difficult time following the employee's death.

A, B and D all track how the passage frames the scheme, while C denies the one thing the scheme is actually built around, the urgency of the family's need at the time of the crisis.

So the correct answer is (C): The immediacy of the need is not the basis for the state to allow the benefit of compassionate appointment.