Indian Economic Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination, 2012-Introduction

Indian Economic Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination, 2012 notification issued

UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

EXAMINATION NOTICE NO: 12/2012-IES/ISS             DATED: 01.09.2012

            (LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS: 01.10.2012)

No. 12/3/2012-EI(B): A combined competitive examination for recruitment to Grade IV of the Services mentioned in Para 2 below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission commencing from 1st December 2012 in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation in the Gazette of India dated the 1^st September, 2012. The examination will be held at the following centres:-

AHMEDABAD          JAIPUR

ALLAHABAD            JAMMU

BANGALORE           KOLKATA

BHOPAL                    LUCKNOW

CHANDIGARH          MUMBAI

CHENNAI                   PATNA

CUTTACK                 SHILLONG

DELHI                         SHIMLA

DISPUR                     THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

HYDERABAD          

The centres and the date of holding the examination as mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of the Commission. Applicants should note that there will be a ceiling on the number of candidates allotted to each of the Centres, except Chennai, Delhi, Dispur, Kolkatta and Ahmedabad. Allotment of Centres will be on the "first-apply-firstallot” basis, and once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, the same will be frozen. Applicants, who cannot get a Centre of their choice due to ceiling, will be required to choose a Centre from the remaining ones.  Applicants are, thus, advised that they may apply early so that they could get a Centre of their choice.

NB: Notwithstanding the aforesaid provision, Commission reserve the right to change the Centres at their discretion if the situation demands. Blind candidates will, however, be required to take the examination at anyone of the seven centres viz. Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Dispur and Mumbai.

Candidates admitted to the examination will be informed of the time table and place or places of examination. The candidates should note that no request for change of centre will be entertained.

2. (a) The Services to which recruitment is to be made on the results of this examination and the approximate number of vacancies in Grade IV of the Services are given below :-

(i) Indian Economic Service - 31

(ii) Indian Statistical Service – 29

NOTE : 3 vacancies have been kept reserved for PH category candidates (one for Hearing Impairment and two for Locomotor Disability or Cerebral Palsy) for Indian Statistical Service by the Government through lES/ISS Exam, 2012.

One vacancy for Blind or Low Vision category has been kept reserved for  Indian Economic Service by the Government through IES/ISS Exam, 2012.

The number of vacancies mentioned above is liable to alteration. Reservation will be given effect to as per policy of the Govt.

(b) A candidate may compete for any one of the Services only viz. the Indian Economic Service or the Indian Statistical Service, for which he/she is eligible in terms of the rules.

A candidate will be eligible to get the benefit of community reservation only in case the particular caste to which the candidate belongs is included in the list of reserved communities issued by the Central Government. If a candidate indicates in his/her Application Form for Indian Economic Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination that he/ she belongs to General Category but subsequently writes to the Commission to change his/her category, to a reserved one, such request shall not be entertained by the Commission.

While the above principle will be followed in general, there may be a few cases where there was a little gap (say 2-3 months) between the issuance of a Government Notification enlisting a particular community in the list of any of the reserved communities and the date of submission of the application by the  candidate. In such cases the request of change of community from general to reserved may be considered by the Commission on merit.

The closing date fixed for the receipt of the application will be treated as the date for determining the OBC status (including that of creamy layer) of the candidates.