• Candidate’s height will be measured as follows:

The candidate will remove his shoes and be placed against the standard with his feet together and the weight thrown on the heels and not on the toes or outer sides of the feet. The candidate will stand erect without rigidity and with the heels, calves, buttocks and shoulders touching the standard, the chin will be depressed to bring the vertex of the head level under the horizontal bar and the height will be recorded in millimeters.

• Male candidates whose height is less than 1524 millimeters will not be considered physically fit for appointment to any of the BS-17 posts under the Federal Government. In the case of female candidates, this standard will be reduced to 1473 millimeters for posts that are completely sedentary provided the weight of such candidates is not less than 43.5 kilograms except for special candidates.

• In the matter of the correlation of age, height and chest-girth of candidates, it is left to the Medical Board to use whatever correlation figures are considered most suitable as a guide in the examination of the candidates except for the Police.
• For the Police, the correlation of age, height and chest-girth will not be less than that given in the following Table:

• The candidate‘s chest will be measured as follows:

Candidate will be made to stand erect with his feet together and to raise his arms over his head. The tape will be so adjusted round the chest that its upper edge touches the interior angles of the shoulder blades behind and lies in the same horizontal plane when the tape is taken around the chest. The arms will then be lowered to hang loosely by the side and care will be taken that the shoulders are not thrown upward or backward so as to displace the tape. The candidate will then be directed to take a deep aspiration several times and the maximum expansion of the chest will be carefully noted and the minimum and maximum will then be recorded in millimeters 838—890, 864—927, etc. In recording the measurements fractions of less than 13 millimeters should not be noted.

The candidate will also be weighed and his weight recorded in kilograms. Fractions of a kilogram should not be noted.

• The candidate‘s eyesight (except for special candidates i.e. visually impaired) will be tested in accordance with the following rules. The result of each test will be recorded:
  • 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 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.
  • Visual Acuity.— 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 and the lids must be kept wide open during the test.

POLICE SERVICE

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

RAILWAYS

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

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 color 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.

OTHERS

No candidate will be accepted whose Visual Acuity falls below the following standard:

* Temporarily lowered to 6/60

• Snellen‘s test types will be used for the test for distant vision, without glasses at a distance of 6096 millimeters, and for the test for near vision, without glasses, at any distance selected by the candidate.
• Inability to distinguish the principal colors will not be regarded as a cause for rejection but the fact will be noted in the proceedings and the candidates will be informed.
• Each eye must have a full field of vision as tested by hand movements.
• 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

• In cases of serious abnormality the opinion of an ophthalmic specialist should be obtained.
• No candidate will be accepted for an appointment if his/her vision doesn’t come up to the requirements specified above without the use of contact glasses. (Av 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.)

• The candidate‘s hearing in each ear should be good except for special candidates i.e. hearing/speech impaired and there is no sign of disease of the ear.

• The candidate‘s speech should be without impediment except for special candidates i.e. hearing/speech impaired.

• The candidate‘s teeth should be in good order and he/she is provided with dentures where necessary for effective mastication (well-filled teeth will be considered as sound).
• Candidates for the Police Service of Pakistan must have 10 sound teeth in the upper jaw, functionally opposed to 10 sound teeth in the lower jaw. Two of these teeth in each jaw must be molars.

Following additional points are also observed:

• Candidate’s heart and lungs should be sound.
• there should be no evidence of any abdominal disease.
• The candidate should not be ruptured
• The candidate does not suffer from hydrocele, a severe degree of varicocele, varicose veins or polyps. A candidate for the Police Service of Pakistan who has been successfully operated on will be accepted ;
• The candidate‘s limb, hands and feet (except special candidates i.e. physically impaired) should be well-formed and developed and there is no shortening of any limbs and there should be free and perfect movement of all joints.
• the candidate does not suffer from any inveterate skin disease.
• There should be no congenital malformation or defect.
• The candidate does not bear traces of acute or chronic disease pointing to an impaired constitution ;
• The candidate should bear the marks of efficient vaccination; or in the case of the Police Service of Pakistan he has been vaccinated (twice unsuccessfully) within the last five years.
• (In support of this the candidates will be required to produce a certificate signed by a Medical Officer); and
• The candidate should be free from communicable diseases.