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Indian Forest Service

NEW SCHEME OF EXAMINATION FOR INDIAN FOREST SERVICE

EXAMINATION, 2013

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 : 9

th March, 2013

(ii) Last date of submission of online application form : 8

th 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