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Process
- Stage I: Indian Forest Service (IFoS) Exam will be of a two-tier examination similar to that
of the Civil Services Examination. The Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT)(Preliminary) Examination
shall serve as the Screening Test for both the Civil Services as well as the Indian
Forest Service Examinations. CSAT (Preliminary examination) - This is qualifying test held in May/June every year. Notification for this is published in December/January. Results are published in the first half of August.
- Stage II: Main examination - This is the main test, held in October/November every year. Results are usually published in the second week of March.
- Stage III: Personality Test (Interview) - It is the final test and is held in April/May every year. Final results are usually announced a few days before the next preliminary examination.
Eligibility
Nationality
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.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person
in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to
the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary
eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Government of 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, 2013, i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd
August, 1983 and not later than 1st August, 1992.
(b) The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable:–
(i) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a
Scheduled Tribe.
(ii) upto a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other
Backward Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such
candidates.
(iii) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in
the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the 1st January, 1980
to the 31st day of December, 1989.
(iv) upto a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services personnel
disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a
disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof:
(v) upto a maximum of five 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, 2013 and have been released (i) on
completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be
completed within one year from August, 2013) otherwise than by way of
dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or (ii) on
account of physical disability attributable to Military Service, or (iii) on
invalidment.
(vi) Upto a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have
completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as
on August, 2013 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 month's
notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
(vii) upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and
Orthopaedically handicapped persons.
NOTE I: Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the
Other Backward Classes who are also covered under any other clauses of para 3(ii) (b)
above, viz. those coming under the category of Ex-servicemen, persons domiciled in
the State of J & K, blind, deaf-mute and orthopadically handicapped etc. will be
eligible for grant of cumulative age-relaxation under both the categories.
NOTE II: The term ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as exservicemen
in the Ex-servicemen (Re-employment in Civil Services and Posts) Rules,
1979, as amended from time to time.
NOTE III: The age concession under Para 3(ii)(b)(v) and (vi) will not be admissible to
Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs, who are released
on own request.
NOTE IV: Notwithstanding the provision of age-relaxation under para 3(ii) (b) (vii)
above, a physically disabled candidate will be considered to be eligible for appointment
only if he/she (after such physical examination as the Government or appointing
authority, as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the requirements of
physical and medical standards for the concerned Services/posts to be allocated to the
physically disabled candidates by the Government.
SAVE AS PROVIDED ABOVE THE AGE LIMITS PRESCRIBED CAN IN NO
CASE BE RELAXED.
The date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation or
Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a certificate recognized by an Indian
University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a Register of
Matriculates maintained by a University, which extract must be certified by the proper
authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination
certificate.
These certificates are required to be submitted only at the time of
applying for the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination.
No other document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extracts from
Municipal Corporation, service records and the like will be accepted.
Education
All candidates must have a minimum of any of the following educational qualifications:
- A degree from a Central, State or Deemed university
- A degree received through Correspondence Education or Distance Education
- A degree from an Open University
- A qualification recognized by the Government of India as being equivalent to either of the above
The following candidates are also eligible, but have to 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 any of the above points
- Candidates who have passed the final exam of the MBBS degree but have not yet completed their internship
Numbers of attempts
The number of attempts a candidate can give the exam is limited as follows:
- General and OBC category under the Creamy layer: 4 attempts
- OBC category: 7 attempts
- SCs/STs: No limit on the number of attempts.
However, please note:
- An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be deemed to be an attempt at the Examination.
- If a candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, he/she shall be deemed to have made an attempt at the Examination.
- Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.
- Candidates just applied but not appeared at the exam is not an attempt.
Reservation
Reservations to SC/ST/OBC categories as per Govt.of India norms.
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