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Last date for receipt of applications: 05th March, 2012
The Candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to examination. Their admission to all the stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions
Preliminary examination of the Civil Services Examination for recruitment to the Services and Posts mentioned below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 20th May, 2012 in accordance with the rules published by the Department of Personnel and Training in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 4th February, 2012
The examination will be held at various centres across the country
(i) Indian Administrative Service
(ii) Indian Foreign Service
(iii) Indian Police Service
(iv) Indian P&T Accounts & Finance Service, Group 'A'
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group 'A'
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group 'A'
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group 'A'
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group 'A'
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group 'A' (Assistant Works Manager, Non-technical)
(x) Indian Postal Service, Group 'A'
(xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group 'A'
(xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group 'A'
(xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'
(xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group 'A'
(xv) Post of Assistant Security Officer in Railway Protection Force, Group 'A'
(xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group 'A'
(xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group 'A'
(xviii) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group 'A'
(xix) Armed Force Headquarters Civil Service, Group 'B' (Section Officer's Grade)
(xx) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group 'B'
(xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakhadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group 'B'
(xxii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group 'B'
(xxiii) Pondicherry Police Service, Group 'B'
The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination is expected to be approximately 965. The number of vacancies is liable to alteration.
Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes. Other Backward Classes and Physically Disabled Categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
Eligibility conditions
Nationality: For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India
For other services, a candidate must be either (a) a citizen of India, or (b) a subject of Nepal, or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia,
Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Govt of India
Provided further that candidates belonging to categories (b), (c) and (d) above will not be eligible for appointment to the Indian Foreign Service
A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Govt of India
Age Limits: A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 01st August, 2012, i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 02nd August, 1982 and not later than 01st August, 1991
The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable (i) 05 years for SC/ST candidate; 03 years for OBC candidates; 05 years for a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989; 03 years in the case of Defence Services personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof; 05 years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 01st August, 2012 and have been released; 05 years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years Military Service as on 01st August, 2012 and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and that they will be released on three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment; 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped persons
Educational qualifications: The candidate must hold a degree of any of Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University u/s 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification
Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified for the Commission's examination but have not been informed of the results as also the candidates who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Preliminary examination
All candidates who are declared qualified by the Commission for taking the Civil Services (Main) examination will be required to produce proof of passing the requisite examination with their application for the Main examination failing which such candidates will not be admitted to the Main examination. The applications for the Main examination will be called sometime in the month of July/August, 2012
In exceptional cases the Union Public Service Commission may treat a candidate who has not any of the foregoing qualifications as a qualified candidate provided that he/she has passed examination conducted by the other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission justifies his/her admission to the examination
Candidates possessing professional and technical qualifications which are recognised by Govt as equivalent to professional and technical degree would also be eligible for admission to the examination
Candidates who have passed the final professional MBBS or any other medical examination but have not completed their internship by the time of submission of their applications for the Civil Services (Main) examination, will be provisionally admitted to the examination provided they submit along with their application a copy of certificate from the concerned authority of the University/Institution that they had passed the requisite final professional medical examination. In such cases, the candidates will be required to produce at the time of their interview original degree or a certificate from the concerned competent authority of the University/Institution that they had completed all requirements (including completion of internship) for the award of the degree
Number of attempts: Every candidate appearing at the examination who is otherwise eligible, shall be permitted four attempts at the examination. Provided that this restriction on the number of attempts will not apply in the case of SC/ST candidates who are otherwise eligible
Provided further that the number of attempts permissible to candidates belonging to OBC, who are otherwise eligible shall be seven. The relaxation will be available to the candidates who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates
Provided further that a physically handicapped will get as many attempts as are available to other non-physically handicapped candidates of his or her community, subject to the condition that a physically handicapped candidate belonging to the general category shall be eligible for seven attempts
The relaxation will be available to the physically handicapped candidates who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates
Restrictions on applying for the examination: A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Foreign Service on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to compete at this examination
In case such a candidate is appointed to the IAS/IFS after the preliminary examination of Civil Services Examination, 2012 is over and he/she continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be eligible to appear in the Civil Services (Main) Examination-2012 notwithstanding his/her having qualified in the Preliminary Examination-2012
Also provided that if such a candidate is appointed to IAS/IFS after the commencement of the Civil Services (Main) Examination-2012 but before the result thereof and continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be considered for appointment to any service/post on the basis of the result of this examination viz Civil Services Examination-2012
Physical standards: Candidates must be physically fit according to the regulations given in the appendix-III of rules for the civil services examination, 2011 published in the gazette of India extraordinary dated 19th February, 2011
Number of attempts: The maximum number of attempts permissible to different categories of aspirants, who are otherwise eligible, will be as follows
General category (04); P.H. candidates belonging to general category (07); OBC (07); SC/ST/ (no limit)
