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 the 23rd May , 2010 in accordance with the Rules published by the Department of Personnel & Training in the Gazette in India Extraordinary dated the 2nd January, 2010.
Services/posts to which recruitment is to be made through the Examination are :
(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, Group ?A?.,(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group 'A' (Assistant Works Manager, Administration),(x) Indian Postal Service, Group ?A?.etc..
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.
Centre of Examination : The examination will be held at the following centres :
Agartala, Gangtok , Patna , Ahmedabad, Hyderabad , Puducherry, Aizwal , Imphal, Port Blair , Aligarh, Itanagar , Raipur , Allahabad , Jaipur , Ranchi , Aurangabad , Jammu , Sambalpur , Bangalore, Jodhpur , Shillong , Bareilly , Jorhat, Shimla , Bhopal, Kochi, Srinagar , Chandigarh, Kohima, Thiruvanathapuram, Chennai, Kolkata , Tirupati , Cuttack , Lucknow , Udaipur, Dehradun , Madurai, Vishakhapatnam , Delhi , Mumbai, Dharwad , Nagpur, Dispur, Panaji (Goa)
Nationality
(1) For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India. (2) 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, 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.
Age Limits :
(a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st August, 2010, i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1980 and not later than 1st August, 1989. (b) The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable:
How to Apply:
The UPSC have developed an application form common for all their examinations which will be processed on computerised machines. This application form alongwith an Information Brochure containing general instructions for filling up the form, an acknowledegment card and an envelope for sending the application is obtainable from the designated Head Post Offices/Post Offices throughout the country as listed in Appendix-III of Notice against cash payment of Rs. 20/- (Rupees twenty only). Form should be purchased from the designated Post Offices only and not from any other agency.
The Candidates should also write the name of examination viz. "Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2010" on the envelope before despatching it to "Secretary, Union Public Service Commission, Dholpur House, Shahajahan Road, New Delhi-110069".
Last date for receipt of applications :
The completed Application Form must reach the Secretary, Union Public Service Commission, Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi 110069 on or before 1st February 2010. In respect of applications received only by post (by post/speed post) from the candidates residing in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Lahaul and Spiti District and Pangi Sub-Division of Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands or Lakshadweep or abroad, the last date for receipt of applications is 8th February 2010 till 5 PM only.
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