Sunday 19 April 2015

UPSC IAS (Mains) revised preference forms: Important instructions

The result for Indian Administrative Services (Main) Exam, conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), last year has been released. According to the changes in the norms, the candidates will have to submit their changed preferences between April 20 and April 27. The revised service preference forms have been published online. Only the registered candidates who have qualified the Civil Services (Main) exam 2014 will be able to avail the option.
The candidates should note the following instructions/guidelines for filling up of revised service preferences in the application form:
The candidates who have qualified the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2014 shall be required to mandatorily indicate revised order of preferences only for those services participating in the said Examination for which they are interested to be allocated to and such revised order of preferences shall be in supersession of the earlier order of preferences filled by the candidates in their detailed application form;
In case of recommendation of their name by UPSC, the candidates shall be considered for allocation to one of those services by the Government for which they shall indicate revised order of preference subject to fulfilment of other conditions;
The candidates should note that they would not be considered for allocation to the service for which they would not indicate any preference;
The candidates would be required to fill up and submit their revised service preferences online in the following manner:
The candidates will be mandatorily required to fill up their revised service preferences during the period April 20 and April 27
The candidates will be required to register on Commission's website using their roll number to get a new password, which would be forwarded to their e-mail registered with the Commission
The candidates will have to login with their user ID (Roll No.) and the password which will be sent through email and fill up the revised preferences in order of preference say 01, 02 and 03 etc
The candidates can give preference for as many services as they desire
In case of the service/services, which they do not want to opt for, they will have to mark '99' against such service/services
A printout of the revised preferences duly signed by the candidates concerned will also have to be handed over by the candidates to the officers concerned of the commission at the time of their personality test.