Wednesday, 7 March 2012

UPSC Exam-IPS exam 2012 Eligibility conditions


INDIAN POLICE SERVICE LIMITED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION, 2012


3. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS:

(A) The candidates, who fulfill the following eligibility conditions would be eligible for this Examination:

(a) must be a citizen of India or he/she must belong to such category of persons as may be, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Central Government ;
(b) have completed 05 years of continuous and actual service as Deputy Superintendent of Police in States under State Police Service or Assistant Commandants in Central Para Military Forces (Central Reserve Police Service, Border Security Force, Indo Tibet Border Police, Central Industrial Security Force and Sashastra Seema Bal) or Officers of the Rank of Captain or Major or equivalent in the Armed Forces.

(c) Should have an unblemished service record.

(B) A candidate must not have attained the age of 35 years on the 1st August, 2012 i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1977. However, the upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable upto a maximum of 01 year for Other Backward Classes category candidates and 02 years for candidates belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe. 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 must be certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination certificate.

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 certificates mentioned above.

Note-I : Candidates should note that the date of birth as recorded in the Matriculation/ Secondary Examination Certificate or an equivalent Certificate will only be accepted by Commission and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or granted.

Note-II: 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.

SAVE AS PROVIDED ABOVE THE AGE LIMITS PRESCRIBED CAN IN NO CASE BE RELAXED.

(C) Every candidates appearing at the examination who is otherwise eligible, shall be permitted two attempts at this examination which may be further relaxed by one additional attempt in case of SC, ST and OBC candidates.

(D) A candidate must hold a degree of any of the 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.

4. After the Notification of the Rules of the Examination in the Gazette of India by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the candidates will have to submit their application within the prescribed last date of application,  to the Union Public Service Commission in the prescribed  manner/proforma as mentioned in para 2 above. The candidates will also have to submit separately another copy of their application to UPSC through proper channel, wherein their Cadre Controlling Authorities will have to verify that they are clear from vigilance angle and are having requisite service of 05 years in the eligible grades. The Union Public Service Commission will initially consider eligibility of a candidate in the Limited Competitive Examination for recruitment in the Indian Police Service on the basis of the Online Applications submitted directly by the candidates. It may, however, be noted that in case of non-receipt of their applications through proper channel with eligibility conditions duly verified, will result in rejection of their candidature at a later stage of the examination. The decision of the Union Public Service Commission as to the acceptance of the application of a candidate and his/her eligibility or otherwise for admission to the examination shall be final.

5. The candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility conditions for admission to the examination. Their admission at all the stages of examination for which they are admitted viz. Written Examination and Personality/Interview Tests will be purely provisional subject to their satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions. If on verification at any time before or after the written Examination, or Personality/ Interview Test, it is found that they do not fulfill any of the requisite eligibility conditions; their candidature for the Examination shall be cancelled.

6. E-admission Certificates to the eligible candidates will be issued by the Union Public Service Commission. No candidate will be admitted to the Examination unless he/she holds a valid Admission Certificate issued by the Commission.

7. A candidate who is or has been declared by the Commission to be guilty of:-

(i) Obtaining support for his/her candidature by the following means, namely:-
(a) Offering illegal gratification to, or

(b) Applying pressure on, or

(c) Blackmailing, or threatening to blackmail any person connected with the conduct of examination, or

(ii) Impersonating, or

(iii) Procuring impersonation by any person, or

(iv) Submitting fabricated documents, or documents which have been tampered with, or

(v) Making statements which are incorrect or false or suppressing material information, or

(vi) Resorting to the following means in connection with his/her candidature for the examination, namely:

(a) Obtaining copy of question paper through improper means,

(b) Finding out the particulars of the persons connected with secret work relating to the examination.

(c) Influencing the examiners, or (vii) Using unfair means during the examination, or

(viii) Writing obscene matter or drawing obscene sketches in the scripts, or

(ix) Misbehaving in the examination hall including tearing of the scripts provoking fellow examinees to boycott examination, creating disorderly scene and the like, or

(x) Harassing or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Commission for the conduct of their examinations, or

(xi) Being in possession of or using any mobile phone, pager or any electronic equipment or device or any other equipment capable of being used as a communication device during the examination, or

(xii) Violating any of the instructions issued to candidates along with their admission certificates permitting them to take the examination, or

(xiii)Attempting to commit or as the case may be abetting the Commission of all or any of the Acts specified in the foregoing clauses may in addition to rendering himself/herself liable to criminal prosecution be liable –

(a) to be disqualified by the Commission from the examination for which he/she is a candidate and/or

(b) to be debarred either permanently or for a specified period:

            (i) by the Commission from any examination or selection held by them.

            (ii) by the Central Government/ State Government from any        employment under them, and for any disciplinary action under the appropriate rules.

Provided that no penalty under these rules shall be imposed except after:

(i) Giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation, in writing as he/she may wish to make in that behalf; and

(ii) Taking the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate within the period allowed to him/her into consideration.

8. (1) Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written examination as may be fixed by the Commission in their discretion shall be called for the Interview for Personality Test  to be conducted by the Commission. Candidates will be recommended by the Commission as per the merit list drawn on the basis of performance of candidates in the Written Test and Interview.

8. (2) The Commission retains discretion to fix minimum qualifying marks in any or all of the papers at any stage and retains discretion to evaluate conventional papers of only those candidates who secure  minimum qualifying marks in the objective papers, as may be  determined by the Commission.

Provided that candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the OBC categories may be called for the Interview for Personality Test by applying relaxed standards, if the Commission is of the opinion that sufficient number of candidates from these categories are not likely to be called for the Interview for Personality Test on the basis of the general standard in order to fill up the vacancies reserved for them.

9. (1) After the interview, the candidates will be arranged by the Commission in order of merit as disclosed by the aggregate marks finally awarded to each candidate and in that order so many   candidates as are found by the Commission to be qualified at the examination shall be recommended for appointment upto the number of unreserved vacancies decided to be filled on the result of the examination.

9. (2) The candidates belonging to any of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the OBC may to the extent of the number of vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes  and the OBC be recommended by the Commission by a relaxed  standard, subject to the fitness of these candidates for selection to the Post.

Provided that the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the OBC who have not availed themselves of any of the concessions or relaxations in the eligibility or the selection criteria, at any stage of the examination and who after taking into account the general qualifying standards are found fit for recommendation by the Commission shall not be recommended against the vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the OBC.
10. The form and manner of communication of the result of the examination to individual candidates shall be decided by the Commission in their discretion and the Commission will not enter into correspondence with them regarding the result.

11. A candidate must be in good mental and bodily health and free from any physical defect likely to interfere with the discharge of his duties as an officer of the service. A candidate, who after such medical examination as Government or the appointing authority, as the case may be, may prescribe, is found not to satisfy these requirements will not be appointed. Any candidate called for the Personality Test by the Commission may be required to undergo medical examination to be conducted by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

No fee shall be payable to the Medical Board by the candidate for the medical examination.

12. 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 the Limited Competitive Examination for Indian Police Service 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 Online Application will be treated as the date for determining the OBC status (including that of creamy layer) of the candidates.

13. No person—
(a) who has entered into or contracted a marriage with a person having a spouse living, or

(b) who, having a spouse living, has entered into or contracted a marriage with any person, shall be eligible for appointment to Service.  Provided that the Central Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible under the personal law applicable to such person and the other party to the marriage and there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any person from the operation of this rule.

14. The list of recommended candidates would be forwarded by the Commission to the Ministry of Home Affairs for issue of offer of appointment with cadre allocation in respect of the selected candidates who are found medically fit as per Medical Examinations carried out by the Government. The selected candidates shall undergo training as decided by the Government and will remain on probation for a period of two years.

15. IMPORTANT: ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMMISSION SHOULD INVARIABLY CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING PARTICULARS.

1. NAME AND YEAR OF THE EXAMINATION.
2. REGISTRATION ID NUMBER (RID).
3. ROLL NUMBER (IF RECEIVED).
4. NAME OF CANDIDATE (IN FULL AND IN BLOCK LETTERS).
5. COMPLETE POSTAL ADDRESS AS GIVEN IN THE APPLICATION.

N.B. I. COMMUNICATION NOT CONTAINING THE ABOVE PARTICULARS MAY NOT BE ATTENDED TO.

N.B. II. CANDIDATES SHOULD ALSO NOTE DOWN THEIR APPLICATION FORM NUMBER FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. THEY MAY BE REQUIRED TO INDICATE THE SAME IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR CANDIDATURE FOR THE LIMITED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE INDIAN POLICE SERVICE, 2012.

16. WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATIONS:

NO REQUEST FOR WITHDRAWAL OF CANDIDATURE RECEIVED FROM A CANDIDATE AFTER HE/SHE HAS SUBMITTED HIS/HER APPLICATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

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