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(Notification) UPSC: Indian Forest Service (IFoS), 2014

Indian Forest Service Examination, 2014

F.No.13/1/2014-EI(B): The Union Public Service Commission will hold a Screening Test for selection to Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, 2014 through Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2014 which will be held on 24th August, 2014, in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in the Gazette of India dated the 31st May 2014.

IMPORTANT INFO:

CANDIDATES SHOULD NOTE THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS CHANGED THE PATTERN OF INDIAN FOREST SERVICE EXAMINATION FROM THE EXAMINATION YEAR 2013 BY INTRODUCING A COMPONENT OF SCREENING MECHANISM THROUGH CIVIL SERVICES (PRELIMINARY) EXAMINATION. ALL THE CANDIDATES APPLYING FOR INDIAN FOREST SERVICE EXAMINATION ARE THEREFORE REQUIRED TO APPEAR IN THE CIVIL SERVICES (PRELIMINARY) EXAMINATION AND QUALIFY THE SAME FOR GOING TO THE SECOND STAGE OF INDIAN FOREST SERVICE (MAIN) EXAMINATION (WRITTEN AND INTERVIEW).
CANDIDATES DESIROUS OF APPLYNG FOR INDIAN FOREST SERVICE EXAMINATION AS WELL AS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION CAN APPLY THROUGH A COMMON ONLINE APPLICATION FORM SUBJECT TO MEETING THE REQUISITE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA BY THEM.

MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

The candidate must hold a Bachelor's degree with at least one of the subjects namely Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Forestry or in Engineering of any of Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared
to be deemed as a University Under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS :

(i) 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.

AGE LIMITS :

(a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years on 1st August, 2014, i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1982 and not later than 1st August, 1993.

PLAN OF EXAMINATION

The Indian Forest Service Examination will consist of two successive stages (vide Appendix I Section-I below).

(i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective type) for the selection of candidates for the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination; and

(ii) Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the Indian Forest Service.

Applications are now invited for the Preliminary Examination only. Candidates who will be declared by the Commission to have qualified for admission to the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination will have to apply again, in the Online Detailed Application Form which would be made available on the Website of the Commission after declaration of Results of Preliminary Examination. The Main Examination is likely to be held in
November, 2014.

2. The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination is expected to be approximately 85. 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 Handicapped Categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.

Note : As per the information received from the Ministry of Environment & Forests. 1 vacancy each has been kept reserved by them for Low Vision and Hearing Impaired categories. However the vacancies indicated are liable to further alteration.

Exam Cemters:

(A) The Preliminary Examination will be held at the following Centers:

AGARTALA
GURGAON
PANAJI (GOA)
AHMEDABAD
GWALIOR
PATNA
AIZAWL
HYDERABAD
PORT BLAIR
ALIGARH
IMPHAL
PUDUCHERRY
ALLAHABAD
ITANAGAR
PUNE
AURANGABAD
JABALPUR
RAIPUR
BANGALORE
JAIPUR
RANCHI
BAREILLY
JAMMU
SAMBALPUR
BHOPAL
JODHPUR
SHILLONG
CHANDIGARH
JORHAT
SHIMLA
CHENNAI
KOCHI
SRINAGAR
COIMBATORE
KOHIMA
THANE
CUTTACK
KOLKATA
THIRUVANANDEHRADUN
KOZHIKODE
THAPURAM
DELHI (CALICUT)
TIRUPATI
DHARWAD
LUCKNOW
UDAIPUR
DISPUR
MADURAI
VARANASI
FARIDABAD
MUMBAI
VIJAYAVADA
GANGTOK
NAGPUR
VISHAKHAPATNAM
GHAZIABAD
NAVI MUMBAI
GORAKHPUR
NOIDA

HOW TO APPLY :

Candidates are required to apply online only by using the website www.upsconline.nic.in Brief instructions for filling up the online Application Form have been given in Appendix- II. Detailed instructions are available on the above mentioned website.