Eligibility Condition

• Nationality
  •  For IAS, IFS and IPS, a candidate must be Citizen of India
  •  For other services, a candidate must be:
    • ❖ a citizen of India or
    • ❖ a subject of Nepal or
    • ❖ a subject of Bhutan or
    • ❖ a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
    • ❖ a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, 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.


• Age Limit
  • A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years.
  
  
  • Relaxation
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Schedule Tribe
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to OBC (Non Creamy layer)
    • ❖ Up to 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
    • ❖ Up to 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
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of
      • ➢ Blindness and low vision;
      • ➢ Deaf and hard of hearing;
      • ➢ Locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy;
      • ➢ Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness


• Minimum Educational Qualification
  
  • 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.

Note: Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified for the Commission’s examination but have not been informed of the result as also the candidates who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Preliminary Examination.

• Number of Attempts
  • Every candidate appearing at the examination shall be permitted six attempts at the examination.
  
  
  • NO restriction on the number of attempts in the case of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
  
  
  • Candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes shall be permitted nine attempts at the examination.
  
  
  •  Candidate of Persons with Benchmark Disability belonging to the General and EWS Category shall be eligible for nine attempts.
  
  

Center of Preliminary Examination

Agartala	Agra	Ajmer	Ahmedabad	Aizawl
Aligarh	Anantapur (AP)	Aurangabad	Bangalore	Bareilly
Bhopal	Bilaspur	Chandigarh	Chennai	Coimbatore
Cuttack	Dehradun	Delhi	Dharwad	Dispur
Faridabad	Gangtok	Gaya	Ghaziabad	Gorakhpur
Gurgaon	Gwalior	Hyderabad	Imphal	Indore
Itanagar	Jabalpur	Jaipur	Jammu	Jodhpur
Jorhat	Kochi	Kohima	Kolkata	Kozhikode
Lucknow	Ludhiana	Madurai	Mumbai	Mysore
Nagpur	Navi Mumbai	Gautam Buddh Nagar	Panji	Patna
Port Blair	Prayagraj	Puducherry	Pune	Raipur
Rajkot	Ranchi	Sambalpur	Shillong	Shimla
Siliguri	Srinagar	Thane	Thiruvananthapuram	Tiruchirapalli
Tirupati	Udaipur	Varanasi	Vellore	Vijayawada
Visakhapatnam	Warangal

Note: Allotment of Centers will be on the "first-apply-first allot" basis, and once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, the same will be frozen. UPSC reserves the right to change the Centers at its discretion if the situation demands.

Center of Mains Examination

Ahmedabad	Aizawl	Bengaluru	Bhopal
Chandigarh	Chennai	Cuttack (Guwahati)	Dehradun
Delhi	Dispur	Hyderabad	Jaipur
Jammu	Kolkata	Lucknow	Mumbai
Patna	Prayagraj	Raipur	Ranchi
Shillong	Shimla	Thiruvananthapuram	Vijayawada

• Restriction on Applying
  • ➢ A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to compete at this examination.
  
  
  • ➢ A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Police Service (IPS) on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to opt for the Indian Police Service (IPS) in Civil Services Examination.

Fees

Every Candidates are required to pay fee of Rs. 100/- (Rupees One Hundred only) Except

• ❖ Female
• ❖ Scheduled Cast (SC)
• ❖ Scheduled Tribes (ST)
• ❖ Persons with Benchmark Disability

Plan of Examination

• Two stage of Examination
  • ❖ Preliminary Examination (Only for Selection for Main Examination)
    • ➢ Objective Type
    • ➢ Two Paper
      • ■ Paper (I)
        • ● 200 Marks
        • ● 100 Question
        • ● Each Question have 2 Marks
      • ■ Paper (II)
        • ● 200 Marks
        • ● 80 Question
        • ● Each Question have 2 .5 Marks
  
  
  • ❖ Main Examination (Selection for various Services and Post)
    • ➢ Written Exam
      • ■ 9 paper out of which 2 paper will be qualifying nature
        • ● 7 paper: Each contain 250 marks
          • ◆ 4 Paper General Studies
          • ◆ 2 Paper Optional Subject
          • ◆ 1 Paper Essay
        • ● 2 paper: Qualifying nature: Each paper contain 300 Marks
    • ➢ Interview : 275 marks with no minimum qualifying marks

Note: Marks obtained by the candidates in the Main Examination would determine their final ranking.
Candidates will be allotted to the various Services keeping in view their ranks in the examination and the preferences expressed by them for the various Services and posts.

Syllabus of the Preliminary Examination

• ❖ Paper (I): 100 (Q) ; 200 (M) ; 2 hours
  • ➢ Current events of national and international importance.
  • ➢ History of India and Indian National Movement.
  • ➢ Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
  • ➢ Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
  • ➢ Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
  • ➢ General issues on Environmental ecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization.
  • ➢ General Science


• ❖ Paper (II): 80 (Q); 200 (M); 2 hours
  • ➢ Comprehension
  • ➢ Interpersonal skills including communication skills
  • ➢ Logical reasoning and analytical ability
  • ➢ Decision making and problem solving
  • ➢ General mental ability
  • ➢ Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level)
  • ➢ Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. — Class X level)

Notes: Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.

Syllabus of the Mains Examination

• ❖ Paper (I): Essay
  • ➢ Candidates may be required to write essays on multiple topics.
  • ➢ They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion, and to write concisely.
  • ➢ Credit will be given for effective and exact expression.


• ❖ Paper (II) : General Studies 1: Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of World and Society
  • ➢ Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.
  • ➢ Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues.
  • ➢ The Freedom Struggle — its various stages and important contributors/contributions from different parts of the country.
  • ➢ Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.
  • ➢ History of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of national boundaries,colonization, decolonization, political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.— their forms and effect on the society.
  • ➢ Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
  • ➢ Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
  • ➢ Effects of globalization on Indian society.
  • ➢ Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism. Salient features of world’s physical geography.
  • ➢ Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India).
  • ➢ Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., geographical features and their location-changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.


• ❖ Paper (III): General Studies II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relation
  • ➢ Indian Constitution—historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions and basic structure.
  • ➢ Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure,devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein.
  • ➢ Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.
  • ➢ Comparison of the Indian constitutional scheme with that of other countries.
  • ➢ Parliament and State legislatures—structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these.
  • ➢ Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary—Ministries and Departments of the Government;pressure groups and formal/informal associations and their role in the Polity.
  • ➢ Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.
  • ➢ Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various constitutional Bodies.
  • ➢ Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.
  • ➢ Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
  • ➢ Development processes and the development industry —the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations,donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.
  • ➢ Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
  • ➢ Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
  • ➢ Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
  • ➢ Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes,limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.
  • ➢ Role of civil services in a democracy. India and its neighborhood-relations.
  • ➢ Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
  • ➢ Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
  • ➢ Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate.


• ❖ Paper IV: General Studies (III): Technology, Economic Development,Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management.
  • ➢ Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment.
  • ➢ Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
  • ➢ Government Budgeting.
  • ➢ Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts of the country, - different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers.
  • ➢ Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution Systemobjectives,functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions;economics of animal-rearing.
  • ➢ Food processing and related industries in India- scope’ and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management.
  • ➢ Land reforms in India.
  • ➢ Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
  • ➢ Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.
  • ➢ Investment models.
  • ➢ Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
  • ➢ Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
  • ➢ Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nanotechnology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.
  • ➢ Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment. Disaster and disaster management.
  • ➢ Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
  • ➢ Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.
  • ➢ Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention.
  • ➢ Security challenges and their management in border areas - linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
  • ➢ Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.


• ❖ Paper (V): General Studies (IV): Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude:
  • ➢ Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in-human actions; dimensions of ethics;ethics - in private and public relationships. Human Values - lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators; role of family society and educational institutions in inculcating values.
  • ➢ Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behavior; moral and political attitudes;social influence and persuasion.
  • ➢ Aptitude and foundational values for Civil Service, integrity, impartiality and non-partisanship, objectivity, dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and compassion towards the weaker-sections.
  • ➢ Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance.
  • ➢ Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world.
  • ➢ Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration: Status and problems; ethical concerns and dilemmas in government and private institutions; laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of ethical guidance; accountability and ethical governance; strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance; ethical issues in international relations and funding; corporate governance.
  • ➢ Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; Philosophical basis of governance and probity; Information sharing andtransparency in government, Right to Information, Codes of Ethics, Codes of Conduct, Citizen’s Charters, Work culture,Quality of service delivery, Utilization of public funds, challenges of corruption.
  • ➢ Case Studies on above issues.
• ❖ Paper (VI & VII) ; Optional Paper: Subject

Agriculture	Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science	Anthropology	Botany
Chemistry	Civil Engineering	Commerce and Accountancy	Economics
Electrical Engineering	Geography	Geology	History
Law	Management	Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering
Medical Science	Philosophy	Physics	Political Science and International Relation
Psychology	Public administration	Sociology	Statistics
Zoology	Literature

• ❖ Literature of any language: As an Optional Subject

Assamese	Bengali	Bodo	Dogri
Gujarati	Hindi	Kannada	Kashmiri
Konkani	Maithili	Malayalam	Manipuri
Marathi	Nepali	Odia	Punjabi
Sanskrit	Santhali	Sindhi	Tamil
Telugu	Urdu	English

• ❖ Qualifying Paper on Indian Language and English
  • ➢ Paper on English Language
    • ■ Comprehension of given passages.
    • ■ Précis Writing.
    • ■ Usage and Vocabulary.
    • ■ Short Essays.
  • ➢ Indian Languages
    • ■ comprehension of given passages.
    • ■ Précis Writing.
    • ■ Usage and Vocabulary
    • ■ Short Essays.
    • ■ Translation from English to the Indian Language and vice-versa.

Note: The papers on Indian Languages and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature only.

The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking

How to Apply

• Candidates are required to apply online using the website http://www.upsconline.nic.in
• Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available on the above mentioned website