According
to the official website of Indian Forest Service, there will be a new scheme of
examination for Indian Forest Service, which is conducted by UPSC.
The salient features of the scheme are
as under:-
(i) Indian Forest Service (IFoS) Exam
will be of a two-tier examination similar to that
of the Civil Services Examination. The
Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination
shall serve as the Screening Test for
both the Civil Services as well as the Indian
Forest Service Examinations.
(ii) Notification of Indian Forest
Service Examination will be done simultaneously with
the Civil Services Examination. The
application form will be called as Combined
Online application
Form for Civil Services and Indian Forest Service
Examinations. In the notifications
for both Indian Forest Service Examination as
well as Civil Services Examination,
candidates will be asked to exercise their
option to either choose Civil Services
or Indian Forest Service or both, as per their
eligibility conditions.
(iii) There will be no change in the
eligibility of the candidates in the Indian Forest
Service Examination.
(iv) The candidates who will be
applying for Indian Forest Service, Civil Services or
both will be asked to appear in the
Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination which
will be a Screening Test for
short-listing the candidates for Indian Forest Service
and Civil Services (Main)
Examinations. Otherwise these two examinations will be
separate in all respects.
(v) Based on the performance of the
candidates in the CS(P) Examination, the
candidates for the Indian Forest Service
as well as the Civil Services examinations,
will be short-listed separately for
the IFS(Main) as well as the Civil Services (Main)
Examination.
The same principle of
short listing 12 to 13 times the number of posts could be used at this stage. However,
the criteria for selection of candidates for Civil Services (Main) Examination and
Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination will be different – based on relevant
functional matrices.
The Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination and the Civil
Services (Main) Examination could then be conducted on different dates in order
to accommodate candidates who may be
short-listed separately for both the
examinations. The interviews and merit list for
both these examinations could be drawn
up separately.
2. The tentative schedule for IFoS
Examination, 2013 is as under:-
(i) Date of Notification : 9th March, 2013
(ii) Last date of submission of online
application form : 8th
April,
2013
(iii) Date of Civil Services
(Preliminary) Exam for
screening of candidates for IFoS
(Main) Exam,2013 : 26th May, 2013
(iv) Date of commencement of IFoS (Main) Exam : 21st September,
2013
By this, now it is very much clear that
notifications for UPSC Civil Services Exam 2013 and IFS exam 2013 will come
together on 9th March, 2013.There is a report in media that, weightage will be
less for optional papers in CSE mains 2013 and total marks will be increased
for General Studies (GS) papers. Let’s wait for the official notification from
UPSC.
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1 Comments
Hello sir, I want to know that BCA/MCA qualified student can fill form of IFS or not?
ReplyDeleteActually I completed my MCA and want to fight for IFS (Indian Forest Service), so can I do this?