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10. The candidate’s eye sight will be tested in accordance with the following rules. The result of each test will be recorded :—

(i) General—The candidate’s eyes will be submitted to a general examination directed to the detection of any disease of abnormality. The candidate will be rejected if he/she suffers from any squint or morbid conditions of eyes, eyelids or contiguous structures, or such a sort as to render, or to be likely at a future date to render him/her unfit for service.

(ii) Visual Acuity.—(A). The examination for determining the acuteness of vision includes two tests—one for distant, the other for near vision. Each eye will be examined separately.

1. Police

11. The Army test types will be used for the test for distant vision without glasses at a distance of 6096 millimetres and for the test for near vision, without glasses, at any distance selected by the candidate.
12. (B). No candidate will be considered fit for the service whose Visual Acuity falls below the following standards :—

Standard-I

Right eye Left eye

Distant vision V. 6/6 . . . . . . . . V. 6/6

Near vision—Reads 0.6 . . . . . . . . Reads 0.6

Standard-II

Better eye Worse eye
Distant vision, V. 6/6 . . . . . V, without glasses, not below 6/60 and after
correction with glasses not below 6/24.

Near vision—Reads 0.6 . . . . Reads 1.

Standard-III

Better eye Worse eye

Distant vision—V, without glasses :— V, without glasses, not below 6/60 not below 6/60 and after correction with glasses— and after correction with glasses—Not below 6/6. not below 6/24.

Near vision—Reads 0.8 Reads 1.

13. No relaxation of the standards of vision will be allowed.

(a) Each eye will be examined separately and the lids must be kept wide open during the test.

II. RAILWAYS

14. No candidate will be accepted whose Visual Acuity falls below the following standards :—

Better eye Worse eye

Distant vision without glasses . . . . . . . . 6/12 6/19

Corrected with glasses . . . . . . . . 6/6 6/9

Near vision with or without glasses . . . . . . 0.6 0.6

Colour perception, night blindness and field of vision Railway :

15. The candidates will be examined, with the apparatus and according to the methods prescribed by the Railway Board’s Standing Advisory Committee of Medical Officers. Any defect of colour perception or in regard to field vision will be a cause for rejection of the candidate. The candidate under the condition of ordinary test for Visual Acuity having 6/6 vision with both eyes open with or without glasses, will be rejected, if, under the conditions of the Night Blindness Test his/her vision with both eyes open, with or without glasses; falls below 6/24.

III. OTHERS

16. Snellen’s test types will be used for the test for distant vision, without glasses at a distance of 6096 millimetres, and for the test for near vision, without glasses, at any distance selected by the candidate.

17. No candidate will be accepted whose Visual Acuity falls below the following standard :—
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Better eye Worse eye
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Distant vision without glasses *6/24 *6/24

Corrected with glasses 6/6 6/12

Near vision with or without glasses 0.8 1
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* Temporarily lowered to 6/60.

18. Colour perception, night blindness and field of vision :

(a) Each eye will be examined separately and the lids must be kept wide open during the test.

(b) Inability to distinguish the principal colours will not be regarded as a cause for rejection but the fact will be noted in the proceedings and the candidates will be informed.

(c) Each eye must have full field of vision as tested by hand movements.

19. The degree of acuteness of vision of all candidates for appointment will be entered in the proceedings in the manner :—

V.P. ……………….. with glasses ……........... Reads ........................

V.L………......…….. with glasses ................... Reads .…..................

20. In cases of serious abnormality the opinion of an ophthalmic specialist should be obtained.

21. No candidate will be accepted for appointment if his/her vision does not come up to the requirements specified above without the use of contact glasses. (A contact glass or lens is defined as a glass shell, the concavity of which is in contact with the globe of the eye, a layer of liquid being interposed between the lens and the cornea. The meaning of the word “glasses” wherever used above is to be interpreted as not covering contact glasses.