3. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS:
(I) Nationality
A candidate must be either:—
(a) A citizen of India
(b) a subject of Nepal
(c) a subject of Bhutan
(d) a Tibetan refugee
who came over to India
Intention of
permanently settling in India
(e) a person of
Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Srilanka Or East African
countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or from
Vietnam with the intention of permanently
settling in India.
Provided that a
candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above 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.
(II) 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, 2012, i.e. he/she must have been born not
earlier than 2nd August, 1982 and not later than 1st August, 1991.
(b) The upper age
limit prescribed above will be relaxable as follows:–
(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 1st
August, 2012 and have been released
(i) on completion of
assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year
from 1st August, 2012) 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 1st August, 2012 and whose assignment has been extended
beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issue 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, 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 Exservicemen, persons
domiciled in the State of J & K, Physically disabled 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 ex-servicemen 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 recognised by an
Indian University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a
Register of Matriculates maintained by a University, and that extract must be
certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary
or an equivalent examination certificate.
These
certificate are required to be submitted only after the declaration of the
result of the written part of the examination.
No other
document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extracts from
Municipal Corporation, service records and the like will be accepted.
The
expression Matriculation/Higher Secondary Examination Certificate in this part
of the instruction includes the alternative cer tificates mentioned above.
NOTE 1:- Candidates should note that only the Date of Birth as
recorded in the Matriculation/Higher Secondary Examination Certificate or an equivalent
certificate as on the date of submission of applications will be accepted by
the Commission and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or
granted.
Note 2 :- Candidates should also note that once a Date of Birth
has been claimed by them and entered in the records of the Commission for the purpose
of admission to an Examination, no change will be allowed subsequently (or at any
other Examination of the Commission) on any grounds whatsoever.
Note 3 :- The
candidate should exercise due care while entering their date of birth in
respective column of the Online Application Form for the Examination. If on verification at any subsequent
stage, any variation is found in their date of birth from the one entered in
their matriculation or equivalent Examination certificate, disciplinary action
will be taken against them by the Commission under the Rules.
(III) Minimum
Educational Qualifications :
A candidate for the
Indian Economic Service must have obtained a Postgraduate degree in
Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/ Econometrics and a candidate
for the Indian Statistical Service must have obtained a Post-Graduate degree in
Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/ Applied Statistics from a University incorporated
by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India
Note I : A candidate who has appeared at an examination the
passing of which
would render him/her
eligible to appear at this examination but has not been informed of the result,
may apply for admission to the examination. A candidate who intend to appear at
such a qualifying examination may also apply. Such candidates will be admitted
to the examination if otherwise eligible, but their admission would be deemed
to be provisional and subject to cancellation, if they do not produce proof of
having passed the requisite qualifying examination along with the Detailed Application
Form which will be required to be submitted by the candidates who qualify on
the result of the written part of the examination.
Note II : In exceptional cases, the Union Public Service
Commission may treat a candidate who has none of the foregoing qualifications
as a qualified candidate provided that he/she has passed examination conducted
by other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission,
justifies his/her admission to the examination.
Note III : A candidate who is otherwise qualified but who has
taken a degree from a foreign University may also apply to the Commission and
may be admitted to the examination at the discretion of the Commission.
(IV) Physical
Standards:
Candidates must be
physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Indian Economic
Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination, 2012 as per Regulations given
in Appendix III of the rules for the Indian Economic Service/Indian Statistical
Service Examination, 2012 published in Gazette of India dated 1st September, 2012.
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