Good news for civil services aspirants
Posted on: 11/Feb/2014 5:42:04 PM
The Union Public Service Commission has decided to give two additional attempts to all categories of candidates of the prestigious exams. The central government has approved two additional attempts to all categories of candidates with effect from Civil Services Examination 2014, with consequential age relaxation of maximum age for all categories of candidates, if required.
The Civil Services Examination (Preliminary), 2014 is tentatively scheduled to be held on August 24, this year. The Civil Service Examinations is conducted by the UPSC to select Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Foreign Service (IFS) among others.
The examinations is conducted in three stages-- preliminary, mains and interview. A candidate is permitted a maximum of four attempts for the examination. However, there is no restriction on number of attempts by a candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
A candidate who has attained the age of 21 years but not attained 30 years may apply for the civil services examination, as per eligibility mentioned in the notification.
It can also be relaxed 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.
There is also a relaxation in upper age up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopedically handicapped candidates besides other categories.
