Indian Forest Service Examination

Eligibility : BSc(Biology, Botany / Agricultural Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Phy, Stati, Zoology)

Location : Anywhere in India

Last Date : 27 May 2016

Hiring Process : Written-test

Indian Forest Service Examination 2016 Conducts Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

Qualification : The candidate must hold a Bachelor's degree with at least one of the subjects namely Animal Husbandry &  Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor's  degree in Agriculture, Forestry or in Engineering 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 I : 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 results as also  the candidates who intend  to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible  for admission  to  the  Preliminary  Examination.  All  candidates  who  are  declared  qualified  by  the  Commission  for  taking  the  Indian  Forest  Service  (Main)  Examination  will  be  required  to  produce  proof  of  passing  the  requisite  examination  with  their  application  for  the  Main  Examination  failing  which  such  candidates  will  not  be  admitted to the Indian Forest Service Main Examination. The applications  for the Main Examination will be  called sometime in the month of September/October, 2016 through on?line mode.  

Note II : In addition, the candidates who possess qualification equivalent to those specified in Rule 7 will be  required to produce a certificate from University incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in  India or other educational institutions established by an Act of the Parliament or declared to be deemed as a  University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 clarifying that the degree is at par  with the Bachelor's degree specified in Rule 7 along with their application for the Main Examination  failing  which such candidate will not be admitted to the Main Examination. 

Note III : In exceptional cases the Union Public Service Commission may treat a candidate who has not any  of  the  foregoing  qualifications  as  a  qualified  candidate  provided  that  he/she  has  passed  examination  conducted by the other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission justifies his/her  admission to the examination.

No. of Posts : 110

Age : A candidate must have attained  the age of 21 years and must not have attained  the age of 32  years on 1st August, 2016, i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1984 and not  later than 1st August, 1995.

Application Fee : Candidates applying  (excepting Female/SC/ST/PH  candidates who are exempted  from payment  of  fee)  for  Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination are required  to pay a fee of Rs.100/?  (Rupees One Hundred only)  either  by depositing  the money in any Branch  of SBI  by cash,  or  by  using net  banking  facility  of SBI, State  Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur/State Bank of Hyderabad/State Bank of Mysore/State Bank of Patiala/State Bank of  Travancore or by using Visa/Master Credit/Debit card

Plan of Examination   : The  Indian  Forest  Service  Examination  will  consist  of  two  successive  stages  (vide  Appendix  I  Section-I below).   (i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective type) for the selection of candidates for the  Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination; and   (ii)  Indian  Forest  Service  (Main)  Examination  (Written  and  Interview)  for  the  selection  of  candidates for the Indian Forest Service.   Applications  are  now  invited  for  the  Preliminary  Examination  only.  Candidates  who  will  be  declared  by  the  Commission  to  have  qualified  for  admission  to  the  Indian  Forest  Service  (Main)  Examination  will  have  to  apply  again,  in  the  Online  Detailed  Application  Form  which  would  be  made  available  on  the  Website  of  the  Commission  after  declaration  of  Results  of  Preliminary  Examination. The Main Examination is likely to be held in November, 2016. 

The Preliminary Examination will be held at the following Centers :  Agartala, Gaya , Navi Mumbai , Agra, Ghaziabad,  Panaji (Goa),  Ajmer,  Gorakhpur, Patna, Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Portblair, Aizawl, Gwalior, Puducherry, Aligarh, Hyderabad,  Pune,  Allahabad, Imphal, Raipur, Ananthapuru,   Indore , Rajkot ,Aurangabad,   Itanagar, Ranchi, Bengaluru,  Jabalpur, Sambalpur ,Bareilly , Jaipur Shillong, Bhopal, Jammu, Shimla ,Bilaspur , Jodhpur, Siliguri, Chandigarh, Jorhat ,Srinagar, Chennai, Kochi, Thane, Coimbatore ,Kohima, Thiruvananthapuram,   Cuttack,   Kolkatta, Tiruchirapalli, Dehradun,   Kozhikode (Calicut), Tirupati, Delhi,   Lucknow, Udaipur, Dharwar,   Ludhiana, Varanasi, Dispur ,  Madurai ,Vellore , Faridabad ,  Mumbai, Vijayawada , Gangtok,   Mysuru, Vishakhapatnam , Gautambuddhnagar ,  Nagpur, Warangal City

How to apply

The Online Applications can be filled up to 27th May, 2016 till 11.59 PM, after which the link will  be disabled.