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Ú Indian Administrative Service

Ú India Foreign Service
Ú Indian Police Service

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Ú Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service
Ú Indian Audit and Accounts Service
Ú Indian Customs and Central Excise Service
Ú Indian Defence Accounts Service
Ú Indian Revenue Service
Ú Indian Ordnance Factories Service
Ú Indian Postal Service
Ú Indian Civil Accounts Service
Ú Indian Railway Traffic Service
Ú Indian Railway Accounts Service
Ú Indian Railway Personnel Service
Ú Posts of Assistant Security Officer in Railway Pr otection Force
Ú Indian Defence Estates Service
Ú Indian Information Service

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Ú Railway Board Secretariat Service
Ú Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service
Ú Customs Appraisers' Service
Ú Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Civil Service and Police Service
Ú Pondicherry Civil Service


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The Application Procedure for the Civil Services Examination is pretty simple. Electronically
scannable Application Forms along with the Information Brochure can be obtained from the
designated Head Post Offices / Post Offices throughout the country. The duly filled in
Application Form with the acknowledgement card should be sent to - Secretary, Union Public
Service Commission, Dholpur House, New Delhi - 110011. For more details regarding Syllabi,
Examination Centres and other clauses, interested candidates are advised to check UPSC's
Notification issued during December in 'Employment News' and
all major newspapers.




  
The successive stages of examination are:

| Preliminary Examination for the selection of candidates for the Main Examination
| Main Examination (Written) for the selection of candidates for interview for a
Personality Test.
| Interview (Personality Test)


      

| A degree of any of the 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 a Deemed University under the UGC Act, 1956, or an
equivalent qualification.
 | Candidates who have appeared or intend to appear for the qualifying examination
and are awaiting results are also eligible to appear for the Preliminary Examination.
All such candidates who qualify to appear for the Civil Services Main Examination
must produce proof of having passed the said examination along with their
application for the Main Examination.
| The UPSC may in exceptional cases treat a candidate without the foregoing requisite
qualification as an eligible candidate if he / she has passed an examination
conducted by other institutions, the standard of which justifies his / her admission in
the opinion of the Commission.
| Candidates with professional and technical qualifications recognised by the
Government as equivalent to professional and technical degrees.
| Candidates who have passed the final year of MBBS or any Medical Examination but
are yet to complete the internship can also appear for the Main Examination.
However they must submit along with their Main Examination application, a certificate
from the concerned authority of the University / Institution that they have passed the
final professional medical examination. At the Interview stage they must then produce
a certificate from a competent authority that they have completed (including
internship) all the requirements for the award of the Medical Degree.


      
 

   
! Only Indian nationals are eligible for IAS and IPS.
!For other services a candidate can be either of the following:
! a citizen of India,
! a subject of Nepal,
! a subject of Bhutan,
! a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before January 1, 1962 with the
intention of permanently settling in India, or

! a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Burma, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Vietnam, Zaire or Zambia
with the intention of permanently settling in India. Candidates belonging to either
categories of b., c., d. or e., must produce an eligibility certificate issued by the
Government of India. Those who belong to either of b., c., or d., categories are not
eligible for appointment to the Indian Foreign Service.

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! A candidate must have attained 21 years and not be over 30 years on August 1 of the year
of examination.
! The upper age limit is relaxed in specific cases as mentioned below:
! upto a maximum of 5 years if the candidate belongs to SC/ST.
! upto a maximum of 3 years if the candidate belongs to Other Backward Classes.
! upto a maximum of 5 years if the candidate had been domiciled in Jammu &
Kashmir during the period between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 1989.
! upto a maximum of 3 years in the case of Defence Services personnel disabled
during hostilities with foreign countries or in a disturbed area and consequently
released.

! upto a maximum of 5 years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned
Officers and ECOs / SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as
on August 1 of the year of examination and have been released:

† on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be

completed within one year from August 1 of the year of examination)
otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or
inefficiency, or
† on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service, or
† on invalidment.
 ! upto a maximum of 5 years in the case of ECOs / SSCOs who have completed an
initial period of assignment (5 years Military Service) as on August 1 of the year of
examination and whose assignment has been extended beyond 5 years. Such
candidates will have to provide a certificate from the Ministry of Defence stating that
they can apply for civil employment and they will be released on a notice of 3 months,
upon selection, from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
! upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically
handicapped candidates.