WRIT Wr 1/195 : aifistririr 113 Orf l- Burl .1 I. The examination will be conducted by the Union MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES Public Service Commission in the manner prescribed in AND PENSIONS Appendix Ito these rules. (Department of Personnel and Training) The dates on which and the places at which the NOTIFICATION Preliminary and Main Examinations will be held shall be fixed New Delhi, the 4th February, 2012 by the Commission. RULES 2. A candidate shall be required to indicate in his/her F. No. 13018/20/2011-AIS(I).—The rules for a application form for the Main Examination his/her order of competitive examination—Civil Services Examination—to be preferences for various services/posts for which he/she would like to be considered for appointment in case he/she held by the Union Public Service Commission in 2012 for the is recommended for appointment by Union Public Service purpose of filling vacancies in the following services/posts Commission. No change in preference of services once are, with the concurrence of the Ministries concerned and indicated by a candidate would be permitted. the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in respect of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service, published for general A candidate who wishes to be considered for IAS/IPS shall be required to indicate in his/her application form for information :- the Main Examination his/ her order of preferences for various () The Indian Administrative Service. State caders for which he/she would like to be considered for (i) The Indian Foreign Service. allotment in case he/she is appointed to the IAS/1PS. No. (ii) The Indian Police Service. change in preference of cadre once indicated by a candidate (iv) The Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service, would be permitted. Group 'A'. Note 1.—The candidate is advised to be very careful while indicating preferences for various services/posts. In (v) The Indian Audit and Accounts Service, this connection, attention is also invited to rule 19 of the Group 'A'. Rules. The candidate is also advised to indicate all the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central (vi) services/posts in the order of preference in his/her application Excise) Gr. "A". form. In case he/she does not give any preference for any (vii) The Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group 'A'. services/posts, it will be assumed that he/she has no specific (viii) The Indian Revenue Service, (LT) Group 'A'. preference for those services. If he/she is not allotted to any one of the services/posts for which he/she has indicated (ix) The Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group 'A'. (Asstt. Works Manager—Administration). preference, he/she shall be allotted to any of the remaining services/posts in which there are vacancies after allocation The Indian Postal Service, Group 'A'. (x) of all the candidates who can be allocated to services/posts (m) The Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group 'A'. in accordance with their preferences. Odi) The Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group 'A'. Note II.— The candidates are advised to visit DOP & (xii) The Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'. T's website www.persmin.nie.in for information/details about (Ay) The Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group 'A'. service allocation/cadre allotment. Note III.—"A candidate who wishes to be considered (xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner, Group for IAS/IPS shall be very careful while indicating preferences 'A' in Railway Protection Force. for various cadres. The candidate is advised to indicate all (xvi) The Indian Defence Estates Service, Group 'A'. the cadres in the order of preference in his/her Detailed (xvii) The Indian Information Service, Junior Grade Application form (DAF) [which is to be filled in case of his/ Group 'A'. her selection for the Civil Services (Main) Examination]. In i) Indian Trade Service, Group 'A' (Gr. Ill). case he/she does not give any preference for any cadre it will be assumed that he/she does not have a specific preference ) Indian Corporate Law Service. Group 'A'. for any cadre. If he/she is not allotted to any one of the ) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group xx cadres for which he/she has indicated preference, he/she 'B' (Section Officer's Grade). shall be allotted to any ofihe remaining cadres in which there Ow) Delhi, Andaman and Nicober Islands, are vacancies after allocation of all the candidates who can Lakshadweep. Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar be allocated to those cadres in accordance with their Haveli Civil Service, Group '8'. preferences." Delhi, Andaman and Nicober Islands. 3. The number of vacancies to be filled on the result of Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar the examination will be specified in the Notice issued by the Haveli Police Service. Group '13'. Commission. ) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group 'B'. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes. Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward ) Pondicherry Police Service, Group '8'. 496 GU12-15 114 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [Pan I--Stv. I Classes and Physically disabled categories in respect of A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is vacancies as may be fixed by the Government. necessary may be admitted to the examination but the oiler 4. Every candidate appearing at the examination who of appointment may be given only after the necessary is otherwise eligible, shall be permitted four attempts at the eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the examination : Government of India. Provided that this restriction on the number of attempts 6. (a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 will not apply in the case of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on Tribes candidates who are otherwise eligible : the 1st of August, 2012 i.e., he must have been born not Provided further that the number of attempts earlier than 2nd August, 1982 and not later than I st August, permissible to candidates belonging to Other Backward 1991. Classes, who are otherwise eligible, shall be seven. The .;b) Die upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxation will be available to the candidates who are eligible relaxable : to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates : (i) up to a maximum of live years if a candidate Provided futher that a physically handicapped will get belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe; as many attempts as are available to other non-physically (ii) up to a maximum of three years in the case of handicapped candidates of his or her community, subject to candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes the condition that a physically handicapped candidate who are eligible to avail ofrescrvation applicable belonging to the General Category shall be eligible for seven to such candidates; attempts. The relaxation will be available to the physically (iii) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate had handicapped candidates who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates. ordinarily been domiciled in the State ofJammu and Kashmir during the period from the 1st Note January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989: (I) An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be (iv) up to a maximum of three years in the case of deemed to be an attempt at the Examination. Defence Services Personnel, disabled in (II) If a candidate actually appears in any one paper operations during hostilities with any foreign in the Preliminary Examination, he/she shall be country or in a disturbed area and released as a deemed to have made an attempt at the consequence thereof; Examination. (v) up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex- (III) Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancella- servicemen including Commissioned Officers and tion of candidature, the fact of appearance of the ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five candidate at the examination will count as an years Military Service as on 1st August, 2012 attempt. and have been released; 5. (I) For the Indian Administrative Service and Indian (a) on completion of assignment (including Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India. those whose assignment is due to be (2) For other Services, a candidate must be either- - completed within one year from 1st August. (a) a citizen of India, or 2012) otherwise than hn way of dismissal or (b) a subject of Nepal, or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency; or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (b) on account of physical disability attributable (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before to Military Service; or the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of (c) permanently settling in India, or on invalidment. (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from (vi) up to a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs. , Pakistan, Burma (Myanmar), Sri Lanka, East SSCOs who have completed an initial period of African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United assignment of five years of Military Service as Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and on 1st August, 2012 and whose assignment has Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of been extended beyond live years and in whose permanently settling in India : case the Ministry of De lence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and that Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), they will be released on three months notice on (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate selection from the date of of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India : receipt of offer of appointment. Provided further that candidates belonging to (vii) up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind.