IFS Exam Eligibility Criteria

I have completed MBBS and now want to give IFS Exam so please give detailed Eligibility Criteria?

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Here I am giving you detailed Eligibility Criteria for IFS (Indian Forest Services) Examination.

Eligibility for Indian Forest Services Exam:

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.

Povided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has ben issued by the Government of India.


Age Limits:
A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years.


Age Relaxation:
The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable in the following cases:

● Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe: upto a maximum of five years.

● Other Backward Classes: upto a maximum of three years.

● State of Jammu & Kashmir (Domiciled during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to 31stupto a maximum of five years. December, 1989:

● Defense Services personnel (disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof): upto a maximum of five years.

● Ex-servicemen including Commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on and have been released (i) on completion of assignment 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: upto a maximum of five years.

● ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues 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 : upto a maximum of five years.

● Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons: upto a maximum of ten years.


Educational Qualifications:
The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree with at least one of the following subjects:

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology, Agriculture, Forestry, Agriculture Engineering, Forestry Engineering


Number of attempts:

● General candidates: four attempts.

● Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates: No restriction.

● Other Backward Classes: seven attempts.