Notification

3.  Eligibility Conditions:

• Nationality
  • FortheIndianAdministrativeService, theIndianForeignServiceandtheIndianPoliceService,acandidatemustbeacitizenofIndia.
  • Forotherservices,acandidatemust beeither:—
    • acitizenofIndia,or
    • asubjectofNepal,or
    • asubjectofBhutan,or
    • a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanentlysettlinginIndia,or
    • a person ofIndian originwho has  migrated from Pakistan,  Burma,  Sri Lanka,  East  African countriesofKenya,Uganda,theUnitedRepublicof  Tanzania,  Zambia,  Malawi,  Zaire,  Ethiopia  and 

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favouracertificateofeligibilityhasbeenissuedbytheGovernmentofIndia.

A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examinationbut the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued tohim/herbytheGovernmentofIndia.

(II)    AgeLimits:

• A candidate must have attained the age of21 years and must not have attained the age of 32yearsonthe1stofAugust,2024i.e.,thecandidatemusthavebeenbornnotearlierthan2ndAugust,1992andnotlaterthan1stAugust,2003.
  
  
• Theupperage-limitprescribedabovewillberelaxable:
  • up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a ScheduledTribe;
  • uptoamaximumofthreeyearsinthecaseof candidates  belonging to  Other  BackwardClasseswhoareeligibletoavailofreservationapplicabletosuchcandidates;
  • up to a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services Personnel, disabled inoperations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released asaconsequencethereof;
  • up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned OfficersandEmergencyCommissioned Officers (ECOs)/ Short Service Commissioned Officers(SSCOs) whohaverendered atleastfive years  Military Service  as  on 1st August, 2024 andhavebeenreleased:
    • oncompletionofassignment(includingthosewhoseassignmentis due to becompleted withinoneyearfrom1stAugust,2024,otherwisethanbywayofdismissalordischargeonaccountofmisconductorinefficiency);or
    • onaccountofphysicaldisabilityattributabletoMilitaryService;or
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  • up to a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initialperiod of assignment of five years of Military Service as on 1st August, 2024 and whoseassignmenthasbeenextendedbeyondfiveyearsandinwhosecasetheMinistryofDefence

issuesacertificatethattheycanapplyforcivilemploymentandthattheywillbereleasedonthreemonthsnoticeonselectionfromthedateofreceiptofofferofappointment.

• up toa maximum of 10 yearsin thecaseofcandidates belonging to Personswith BenchmarkDisabilities(PwBD)categoriesviz.
• blindnessandlowvision;
• deafandhardofhearing;
• locomotordisabilityincludingcerebralpalsy,leprosycured,dwarfism,acidattackvictimsandmusculardystrophy;
• autism,intellectualdisability,specificlearningdisabilityandmentalillness;
• multipledisabilitiesfromamongstpersonunderclauses(i)to(iv)includingdeaf-blindness.

Note-I:  Candidates  belonging  to either the SC  or the ST or the  OBC category who  are  also covered underanyotherclausesofpara3(II)(2)above,viz.thosecomingunderthecategoryofEx-servicemenorPwBD,willbeeligibleforgrantofcumulativeage-relaxationunderbothcategories.

Note-II : The term Ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as Ex-servicemen in the Ex-servicemen(Re-employmentinCivilServicesandPosts)Rules,1979,asamendedfromtimetotime.

Note-III : The age concession under para 3(II)(2) (d) and (e) will be admissible to Ex-servicemen i.e. a personwhohasserved in any  rank whether as combatant  or non-combatant  in  the Regular Army,  Navy and AirForceoftheIndianUnionandwhoeitherhasbeenretiredorrelievedordischargedfrom  such  servicewhetheratownrequestorbeingrelievedbytheemployerafterearningpension.

Note-IV : Notwithstandingthe provision of age-relaxation under para 3(II) (2) (f) above, candidates of PwBDcategorywillbeconsideredtobeeligibleforappointmentonlyifthey(aftersuchMedicalExaminationastheGovernmentorappointingauthority,asthecasemaybe,mayprescribe)arefoundtosatisfytherequirements of physical and medical standards  for the concerned Services to be  allocated to  the candidatesofPwBDcategorybytheGovernment.

Note-V:Saveasprovidedunderpara3(II)(2)above,theage-limitsprescribedcaninnocaseberelaxed.

• Thedateofbirth,acceptedbytheCommissionisthatenteredin the  Matriculation  or  SecondarySchoolLeavingCertificateorinacertificaterecognisedby an Indian University as equivalent toMatriculation orin an extract from a Register of Matriculates  maintained by a University which extract  Thecertificateinsupportofthedateofbirthis  required  to  besubmitted by a candidate only at the time of applying for the Civil Services (Main) Examination. No otherdocumentrelatingtoagelikehoroscopes,affidavits,birthextractsfromMunicipal  Corporation,  Servicerecordsandthelikewillbeaccepted.