Civil Services in India - Part 2

CIVIL SERVICES IN INDIA - PART 2

Nationality:
•    For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, the candidate must be a citizen of India.
•    For other services, the candidate must be one of the following:
1.    A citizen of India
2.    A citizen of Nepal or a subject of Bhutan
3.    A Tibetan refugee who settled permanently in India before January 1, 1962.
4.    A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Educational Qualification:
All candidates must have as a minimum one of the following educational qualifications:
•    A degree from a Central, State or a Deemed university
•    A degree received through correspondence or distance education
•    A degree from an open university
•    A qualification recognized by the Government of India as being equivalent to one of the above.
The following candidates are also eligible, but must submit proof of their eligibility from a competent authority at their institute/university at the time of the main examination, failing which they will not be allowed to attend the exam.
•    Candidates who have appeared in an examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified enough to satisfy one of the above points.
•    Candidates who have passed the final exam of the MBBS degree but have not yet completed an internship.
•    Candidates who have passed the final exam of ICAI, ICSI and ICWAI.
•    A degree from a private university.
•    A degree from any foreign university recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.

Age:
The candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years (for the General category candidate) on August 1 of the year of examination. Prescribed age limits vary with respect to caste reservations.

•    For Other Backward Castes (OBC) the upper age limit is 35 years.
•    For Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), the limit is 37 years.
•    For Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities, the limit is 40 years.
•    For Candidates belonging to ex- servicemen including Commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered Military services for at least five years as on August 1, of the year 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 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 or
•    Relaxation of up to a maximum of five years will be given in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as on August 1 of the year 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 months’ notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment, the limit is 32 years.
•    For ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service, the limit is 32 years.
•    For PwD candidates, the limit is 37 years.
•    For Domiciles of Jammu and Kashmir from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1989, the limit is 32 years.

Types of Civil Services in India
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 Defense Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
VIII.    Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’.
IX.    Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration).
X.    Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’.
XI.    Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
XII.    Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’.
XIII.    Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
XIV.    Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’.
XV.    Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’
XVI.    Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’.
XVII.    Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’.
XVIII.    Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’ (Gr. III).
XIX.    Indian Corporate Law Service, Group “A”.
XX.    Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade).