- (1.) In the Union Territory of Chandigarh, 5% of the seats are reserved in favour of sons/daughters/spouses of Military / Para-Military personnel Orders in this behalf are issued by the Administration in its memo dated 19th May, 1982 which were later modified in memo dated 6-9-1990. In accordance with the said orders, Punjab Engineering College (a College run by the Chandigarh Administration and affiliated to Punjab University) reserved 15 seats in favour of sons/daughters spouses of Military/ParaMilitary personnel. The College published a prospectus for the session 1991-92. It contains inter alia the rule governing the admission of students to the said college. So far as the reservation in favour of children and spouses of Military/ Para-Military Personnel is concerned, the rule (printed at pages 23 and 24 of the Prospectus) reads as follows: Sons/ Daughters/ Spouses of Military'/ ParaMilitary Personnel etc.: The Admission of the candidates against the reserved seats under this category will be made on the basis of merit list prepared according to the priorities given below in the descending order:- 1. Sons/Daughters/Spouses of defence personnel who are awardees of gallantry decorations of Paramvir/ Mahavir/ Vir Chakra in person or posthumously. Or Sons/daughters/spouses of defence personnel and para-military personnel like CRPF, BSF etc. who are killed or are totally incapacited in action while in service and were wholly dependent on them.
(2.) Sons/daughters/spouses of defence personnel and paramilitary personnel like CRPF/ BSF etc. who die while in service and were wholly dependent on them;
(3.) Sons/daughters/spouses of defence personnel and paramilitary personnel like CRPF/BSF incapacitated while in service and were wholly dependent on them;;