Eligibility for UPSC
Civil Service Exam
Nationality
A
candidate must be either:
1.
a citizen of India, or
2.
a subject of Nepal, or
3.
a subject of Bhutan, or
4.
a Tibetan refugee who came over to India
before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India.
5.
a person of Indian origin who has migrated
from Pakistan, Burma, Srilanka, 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
Government 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 1st August, in the year of examination.
The upper
age limit prescribed above will be relaxable in the follwing cases:
o Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe: upto a maximum of
five years.
o Other Backward Classes: upto a maximum of three years.
o State of Jammu & Kashmir (Domiciled during the period
from the 1st January, 1980 to 31st December, 1989): upto a maximum of five
years.
o Defence Services personnel : upto a maximum of five years
o (disabled in operations during hostilities with any
foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof)
o Ex-servicemen including Commissioned officers and
ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service and have been
released (i) on completion of assignment otherwise than by way of dismissal or
discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or (ii) on account of
physical disability attributable to Military Service, or (iii) on invalidment:
upto a maximum of five years.
o ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of
assignment of five years of Military Service 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 month's notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer
of appointment : upto a maximum of five years.
o Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons:
upto a maximum of ten years.
NOTE
I
Cumulative
Age relaxation:
Scheduled
Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who are also
covered under other clauses mentioned above will be eligible for grant of
cumulative age-relaxation under both the categories.
Ex-servicemen
eligibility:
The
term ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as ex-servicemen
in the Ex-servicemen (Re-employment in Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979,
as amended from time to time.
The
age concession will not be admissible to Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned
Officers including ECOs/SSCOs, who are released on own request.
NOTE
II
Date
of Birth Certificate:
The
date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation
or Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a certificate recognized by an
Indian University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a
Register of Matriculates maintained by a University, which extract must be
certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary
or an equivalent examination certificate.
No
other document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extracts from
Municipal Corporation, service records and the like will be accepted.
Once
the date of birth is recorded in the Commission, no change is allowed
subsequently (or at any other Examination of the Commission) on any grounds
whatsoever.
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
Under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or possess an
equivalent qualification.
NOTE:
Candidates
who have appeared at an examination which would educationally qualify them for
the UPSC examination but have not received the the results will also be
eligible for admission to the Preliminary Examination. They will have to
produce the proof of passing the requisite examination with their application
for the Main Examination.
In
exceptional cases, UPSC may treat a candidate who has not any of the foregoing
qualifications as a qualified candidate, provided that he has passed
examination conducted by other Institutions, which UPSC deems fit.
Candidates
possessing professional and technical qualifications, recognised by Government
as equivalent to professional and technical degree would also be eligible for
admission to the examination.
Candidates
who have passed the final professional M.B.B.S. 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. They will however, have to submit a
copy of a certificate from the concerned authority of the
University/Institution that they have passed the requisite final professional
medical examination with their application . In such cases, the candidates will
be required to produce original Degree or a certificate from the
University/Institution at the time of their interview .
Number
of attempts
The
maximum number of attempts restriction is effective from the examination held
in 1984. In case other eligibility conditions apply:
o General candidates: four attempts.
o Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates: No
restriction.
o Other Backward Classes: seven attempts.
NOTE 1:
An
attempt at a Preliminary Examination is considered an attempt at the
examination.
If a
candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, he
is considered to have made an attempt at the examination.
Notwithstanding
the disqualification/cancellation of candidature the fact of appearance of the
candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.
NOTE 2: Restrictions
on reapplying 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.
If a
candidate is appointed to the IAS/IFS after the Preliminary Examination of
Civil Services Examination 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 notwithstanding his/her having qualified in the Preliminary
Examination.
If a
candidate is appointed to IAS/IFS after the commencement of the Civil Services
(Main) Examination, 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.
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