126 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC. 1] MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES (xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group ‘B’. AND PENSIONS (xxiv) Pondicherry Police, Service, Group ‘B’ (Department of Personnel and Training) 1. The examination will be conducted by the Union NOTIFICATION Public Service Commission in the manner prescribed in New Delhi, the 7th February, 2018 Appendix I to these rules. RULES The dates on which and the places at which the Preliminary and Main Examinations will be held shall be fixed F. No. 13018/10/2017-AIS(I).—The rules for a by the Commission. competitive examination—Civil Services Examination—to be held by the Union Public Service Commission in 2018 for the 2. (1) A Candidate shall be required to mandatorily purpose of filling vacancies in the following services/posts indicate order of preferences only for those services are, with the concurrence of the Ministries concerned and participating in the Civil Services Examination for the year, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in respect of the for which he is interested to be allocated to, in the application Indian Audit and Accounts Service, published for general form for Main Examination. information :— (2) In case of recommendation of his name by UPSC for (i) Indian Administrative Service. service allocation, the candidate shall be considered for allocation to one of those services by the Government for (ii) Indian Foreign Service. which he shall indicate his preference subject to fulfilment of (iii) Indian Police Service. other conditions. No change in preferences of services once (iv) Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service, Group indicated by a candidate would be permitted. ‘A’. (3) A candidate who wishes to be considered for Indian (v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Administrative Service or Indian Police Service shall be Group ‘A’. required to indicate in his application form for the Main Examination his order of preferences for various Zones and (vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Cadres for which he would like to be considered for allotment Excise) Group “A”. in case he is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service (vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. or Indian Police Service and no change in preference of Zone (viii) Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) Group ‘A’. and Cadre once indicated by a candidate would be permitted. (ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’. Note 1 : The candidates are advised to be very careful (Asstt. Works Manager—Administration). while indicating preferences for various services or posts. In (x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’. this connection, attention is also invited to clause (i) of rule 19. (xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. Note 2 : The candidates are advised to visit Department (xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’. of Personnel and Training website www.dopt.gov.in for (xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. information or details about service allocation, Cadre allotment (xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’. and service profile. (xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner, Group Note 3 : The candidates who wishes to indicate ‘A’ in Railway Protection Force. IAS/IPS as their Service preference are advised to indicate all the Zones and Cadres in the order of preference in their (xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’. Detailed Application Form as per the extant Cadre Allocation (xvii) Indian Information Service, Junior Grade Group Policy applicable for Civil Services Examination, 2018. ‘A’. 3. The number of vacancies to be filled on the result of (xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’ (Gr. III). the examination will be specified in the Notice issued by the (xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group ‘A’. Commission. (xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade). the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward (xxi) Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Classes and candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Disability in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Haveli Civil Service, Group ‘B’. Government. (xxii) Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 4. Every candidate appearing at the examination who is Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar otherwise eligible, shall be permitted six attempts at the Haveli Police Service, Group ‘B’. examination : ¹Hkkx Iµ[k.M 1º Hkkjr dk jkti=k % vlk/kj.k 127 Provided that this restriction on the number of attempts A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is will not apply in the case of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled necessary may be admitted to the examination but the offer Tribes candidates who are otherwise eligible : of appointment may be given only after the necessary Provided further that the number of attempts eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the permissible to candidates belonging to Other Backward Government of India. Classes, who are otherwise eligible, shall be nine. The 6. (a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 relaxation will be available to the candidates who are eligible years and must not have attained the age of 32 years on to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates : the 1st of August, 2018 i.e., he must have been born not Provided futher that candidates belonging to persons earlier than 2nd August, 1986 and not later than 1st August, with benchmark disability will get as many attempts as are 1997. Necessary action to make corresponding changes in available to candidates other than persons with benchmark respective Rules/Regulations pertaining to various services disability of his or her community, subject to the condition is being taken separately. that a candidate of person with benchmark disability belonging to the General Category shall be eligible for nine (b) The upper age-limit prescribed above will be attempts. Necessary action to make corresponding changes relaxable: in respective Rules/regulations pertaining to various servcies (i) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate is being taken separately. The relaxation will be available to belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe; the candidate of persons with benchmark disability who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates. (ii) up to a maximum of three years in the case of Note :— candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (I) An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable deemed to be an attempt at the Civil Services to such candidates; Examination. (iii) up to a maximum of three years in the case of (II) If a candidate actually appears in any one paper Defence Services Personnel, disabled in in the Preliminary Examination, he/she shall be operations during hostilities with any foreign deemed to have made an attempt at the country or in a disturbed area and released as a Examination. consequence thereof; (III) Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancella- (iv) up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex- tion of candidature, the fact of appearance of the servicemen including Commissioned Officers and candidate at the examination will count as an ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five attempt. years Military Service as on 1st August, 2018 5. (1) For Indian Administrative Service and Indian and have been released; Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India. (2) For other Services, a candidate must be either— (a) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be (a) a citizen of India, or completed within one year from 1st August, (b) a subject of Nepal, or 2018 otherwise than by way of dismissal or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or discharge on account of misconduct or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before inefficiency; or the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of (b) on account of physical disability attributable permanently settling in India, or to Military Service; or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma (Myanmar), Sri Lanka, East (c) on invalidment. African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United (v) up to a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/ Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and SSCOs who have completed an initial period of Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of assignment of five years of Military Service as permanently settling in India : on 1st August, 2018 and whose assignment has Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), been extended beyond five years and in whose (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India : that they can apply for civil employment and that Provided further that candidates belonging to they will be released on three months notice on categories (b), (c) and (d) above will not be eligible for selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment to the Indian Foreign Service. appointment. 128 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC. 1] (vi) up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of (a) The expression Matriculation/Higher Secondary blindness and low vision; (b) deaf and hard of Examination Certificate in this part of the Instruction include hearing; (c) locomotor disability including cerbral the alternative certificates mentioned above. palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims Note 1:—Candidate should note that only the date of and muscular dystrophy; (d) autism, intellectual birth as recorded in the Matriculation/Secondary Examination disability, specific learning disability and mental certificate or an equivalent certificate on the date of illness; (e) multiple disabilities from amongst submission of application will be accepted by the Commission, person under clauses (a) to (d) including deaf- and no subsequent request for its change will be considered blindness.” or granted.