| 13th December 2015 10:26 AM | |
| Kiran Chandar | Re: IAS Openings The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the premier administrative civil service of the Government of India. The officers hold key and strategic positions in the Union Government, States and public-sector undertakings. Unlike Candidates selected to other civil services, a person once appointed to Indian Administrative Service becomes ineligible to reappear in Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission. IAS Openings The dates for new opening or recruitment for Indian Administrative Service (IAS) by UPSC or Union Public Service Commission for 2016 are as follows: Date of Notification: 23rd April 2016 Last Date to Apply: 20 May 2016 Date of IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam: 07 August 2016 (Sunday) IAS Openings  Minimum Educational Qualifications: The candidate must hold a degree 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. Age Limits : (a) One must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years. (b) The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable : (i) Upto a maximum of 5 years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe. (ii) Upto a maximum of 3 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 5 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 December, 1989. (iv) upto a maximum of 3 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 5 years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service (vi) Upto a maximum of 5 years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years 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 months 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. |
| 12th December 2015 05:59 PM | |
| Unregistered | IAS Openings Can you tell me about the dates for new opening or recruitment for Indian Administrative Service (IAS) by UPSC or Union Public Service Commission for 2016? |
