What: The Union Public Service Commission will hold the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2007 on May 20, 2007 for recruitment to the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and certain other Group A and Group B Central Services/ Posts.

The examination will be held at various centres across the country.

For details regarding the syllabus and scheme of the examination, centres of examination, guidelines for filling up the application form, consult the detailed notice of the examination published in the Employment News/ Rozgar Samachar dated December 16, 2006.

Do you qualify?

~ You must be not less than 21 years and no more than 30 years as on August 1, 2007.

~ You must hold a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university.

~ You must be physically fit according to the regulations given in Appendix-III of Rules for the Civil Services Examination, 2007 published in the Gazette of India dated December 16, 2006.

Number of attempts

~ The maximum number of attempts permissible of an aspirant is four times.

Important date

~ Please send in your completed application form before January 15, 2007.

How to apply

~ Please submit the Common Application Form devised by the Commission for its examinations. This can be purchased from the designated Head Post Offices/ Post Offices (specified in Appendix-III of the Notice) throughout the country against a cash payment of Rs 20.

~ If you find it difficult obtaining Application Forms from the designated HPOs/ POs, please contact the concerned Post Master of UPSC's Forms Supply Monitoring Cell, at the following number:

Phone: (011) 23389366

~ Please pay a fee of Rs 50 through the Central Recruitment Fee Stamp only.

~ Please mail or speed post (not by hand or courier) your application to:

Secretary
Union Public Service Commission
Dholpur House
Shahjahan Road
New Delhi --110 069 

~ For further information, please contact UPSC's Facilitation Counter near Gate C of its campus.

When: 10 am to 5 pm

Phones: (011) 23385271, 23381125, 23098543

~ Please visit http://www.upsc.gov.in/ for details of the examination, information about registration, venues of the examination, results and more.

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