Friday, February 4, 2011

UPSC - Engineering Services Exam 2011

UPSC Engineering services examination-2011


              

UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Engineering Services Exam 2011


Candidates to ensure their eligibility for the examination: The candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to the examination. Their admission at all the stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions Mere issue of admission certificate to the candidate will not imply that his/her candidature has been finally cleared by the commission .Commission take up verification of eligibility conditions with reference to original documents only after the candidate has qualified for interview/personality test


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


es are required to apply online only by using the website http://www.upsconline.nic.in. Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available on the above mentioned website. However candidates residing in certain remote areas may also apply through offline mode, by using the common application form being used for examinations conducted by the commission. This form can be purchased from the designated head post offices/post offices throughout the country against cash payment of Rs 20/- (Rs twenty only). Each such Form can be used only once and only for one examination. In case of any difficulty in obtaining application forms from the designated HPOs/POs the candidates should immediately contact the concerned post master or UPSC’s forms supply monitoring cell over Tele 011-23389366/Fax 011-23387310. It may be noted that all offline applications, if any, received from candidates residing in normal areas/abroad, shall be summarily rejected by the commission. The option of offline application is available only to candidates residing in specified remote areas

Important dates

Last date of receipt of applications

Online (from all candidates): The online applications can be filled up to 7th February, 2011 till 11.59 p.m. after which the link will be disabled

Off-line (from candidates residing in specified remote areas only): All off-line applications from candidates residing in remote areas only, must reach the controller of examinations, union public service commission, Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi-110069 by post/speed post only by 14th February, 2011. Candidates should note that no application will be received by hand or by courier

Penalty for wrong answers (in objective type papers): Candidates should note that there will be penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the objective type question papers

Facilitation counter and website for guidance of candidates: In case of any guidance/ information/ clarification regarding their applications, candidature etc, candidates can contact UPSC’s facilitation counter near gate ‘C’ of its campus in person or over Tel 011-23385271/011-23381125 on working days between 10.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs

The Commission also has website at address http://www.upsc.gov.in over which the candidates can obtain details of the examination as well as information about registration of their applications, venue of the examination and results etc

Candidates are advised to read carefully the instructions/guidelines for filling up the application form and special instructions to the candidates for conventional type tests and objective type tests
Candidates are required to apply only through online mode (except candidates residing in remote areas, who have the option of applying through offline or online mode)

A combined competitive examination for recruitment to the services/posts will be held by the UPSC at Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Aligarh, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwad, Dispur, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat, Kochi (Cochin), Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Udaipur and Vishakhapatnam commencing on 14th May, 2011
The centres and the date of holding the examination as mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of the commission, while every effort will be made to allot the candidates to the centre of their choice for examination, the commission may, at their discretion allot a different centre to a candidate when circumstances so warrant, candidates admitted to the examination will be informed of the time table and place or places of examination

The candidates should note that no request for change of centre will normally be entertained. However, when a candidate desires a change in centre from the one he had indicated in his application form for the examination, he must send a letter addressed to the controller of examination, UPSC giving full justification as to why he desires a change in centre. Such requests will be considered on merits but requests received in the commission’s office after 7th March, 2011 will not be entertained under any circumstances nor will such communications be replied to

Recruitment on the results of this examination will be made to the services/posts under the following categories
Category-I-Civil Engineering
Category-II-Mechanical Engineering
Category-III-Electrical Engineering
Category-IV-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination is expected to be approximately 745 including 50 PH vacancies
The number of vacancies is liable to alteration
Reservations will be made for candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/PH in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the govt of India

Eligibility conditions
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 the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the govt of India. A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued by the govt of India

Age limits: A candidate for this examination must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on the 1st August, 2011 i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1981 and not later than 1st August, 1990


The period of apprenticeship if followed by appointment against a working posts on the Railways may be treated as Railway Service for the purpose of age concession

The upper age limit prescribed above will be further relaxable; up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a SC/ST; upto a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to OBC who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates; upto a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the state of J&K during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the 31st December, 1989; upto a maximum of three years in the case of defence service 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 in the case of ex-servicemen including commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs; upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped persons

Minimum educational qualification: For admission to the examination, a candidate must have; (a) obtained a degree in engineering from a university 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 Universities u/S 3 of the UGC Act, 1956; or (b) passed sections A and B of the Institution examinations of the Institution of engineers (India); or (c) obtained a degree/diploma in engineering from such foreign University/College/Institution and under such conditions as may be recognized by the govt for the purpose from time to time, or (d) passed graduate membership examination of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (India); or (e) passed associate membership examination parts II and III/sections A and B of the Aeronautical Society of India; or (f) passed Graduate Membership Examination of the Institution of Electronics and Radio Engineers, London held after November, 1959

Provided that a candidate for the post of Indian Naval Armament Service (Electronics Engineering Posts) and Engineer, Gr 'A' in Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organization may possess any of the above qualifications or the qualification mentioned namely; M.Sc degree or its equivalent with Wireless Communication, Electronics, Radio Physics or Radio Engineering as a special subject

A candidate who has appeared at an examination the passing of which would render him educationally qualified for this examination, but has not been informed of the result, may apply for admission to the examination. A candidate who intends to appear at such a qualifying examination may also apply. Such candidates will be admitted to the examination, if otherwise eligible, but their admission would be deemed to be provisional and subject to cancellation, if they do not produce proof of having passed the requisite qualifying examination along with the detailed application form which will be required to be submitted by the candidates who qualify on the result of written part of the examination
In exceptional cases, the commission may treat a candidate, who has not any of the qualifications prescribed in this rule, as educationally qualified provided that he/she has passed examinations conducted by other institutions the standard of which in the opinion of the commission justifies his/her admission to the examination

A candidate who is otherwise qualified but who has taken a degree from a foreign University which is not recognized by govt, may also apply to the commission and may be admitted to the examination at the discretion of the commission

Fee: Candidates applying online (excepting SC/ST/Female/PH candidates who are exempted from payment of fee) are required to pay a reduced fee of Rs 50/- (Rs fifty only) either by remitting the money in any branch of SBI by cash, or by using net banking facility of SBI or by using Visa/Master credit/debit card

Candidates residing in remote areas, who may apply offline also (through common application form) are required to pay a fee of Rs 100/- (Rs one hundred only) through a single central recruitment fee stamp of the requisite denomination. Central recruitment fee stamp (not postage stamp) must be obtained from the post office and affixed on the application form in the space provided therein. The stamp may be got cancelled from the issuing post office with the date stamp of the post office in such a manner that the impression of the cancellation mark partially overflows on the application form itself but within the space provided on the form. The impression of the cancellation mark should be clear and distinct to facilitate the identification of date and the post office of issue

All female candidates and candidates belonging to SC/ST/PH categories are exempted from payment of fee. No fee exemption is, however, available to OBC candidates and they are required to pay the prescribed fee in full

Applications not accompanied by the prescribed fee (unless remission of fee is claimed) shall be summarily rejected. Fee once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances nor can the fee be held in reserve for any other examination or selection

If any candidate who took the Engineering Services Examination held in 2010 wishes to apply for admission to this examination, he/she must submit his/her application so as to reach the commission’s office by the prescribed date without waiting for the results or an offer of appointment