Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2010 - Application Form

The candidate should also fill up in the relevant places of the Acknowledgement Card, their Civil Services Application Form Number (8-digit) and the name of the Civil Services Examination.

The applicants are required to affix the postage stamp of Rs. 6/- on the Acknowledgement Cards and sent the same along with Civil Services Application Form to UPSC.

If an applicant fails to affix the postage stamp of requisite amount, his Acknowledgment Cards will be not be despatched and Union Public Service Commission will not be responsible for non-receipt of acknowledgement cards by the applicant.

The duly filled in Civil Services application form and the acknowledgement card should then be mailed in the special envelope supplied with the Information Brochure. The Candidates should also write the name of examination viz. "Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2010" on the envelope before despatching it to,

Secretary,
Union Public Service Commission,
Dholpur House, Shahajahan Road,
New Delhi-110069.

(b) All candidates, whether already in Government Service, or in Government owned industrial undertakings or other similar organisations or in private employment should submit their applications direct to the UPSC Commission.

If any candidate forwards his application through his employer and it reaches the Union Public Service Commission late, the Civil Services application, even if submitted to the employer before the closing date, will not be considered.

Persons already in Government service, whether in a permanent or temporary capacity or as workcharged employees other than casual or daily rated employees or those serving under the Public Enterprises are however, required to submit an undertaking that they have informed in writing their Head of Office / Department that they have applied for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination.

Candidates should note that in case a communication is received from their employer by the Union Public Service Commission withholding permission to the candidates applying for / appearing at the Civil Services Preliminary Examination, their applications will be liable to be rejected / candidature will be liable to be cancelled.

Note 1: While filling in his application form, the candidate should carefully decide about his choice for the centre and optional subject for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination. More than one Civil Services application from A candidate giving Different centres and / or optional subjects will not be accepted in any case. Even if a candidate sends more than one completed Civil Services application the Commission will accept only one application at their discretion and the Commission's decision in the matter shall be final.

If any candidate appears at a centre / optional subject other than the one indicated by the Commission in his Admission Certificate, the papers of such a candidate will not be valued and his candidature will be liable to cancellation.

Note 2: Since these Civil Services application forms are to be processed in a computerised system, Due care should be taken by the candidates to fill up their application form correctly. Necessary instructions for filling up the UPSC Civil Services 2010 form may be seen at appendix II. No column of the Civil Services Application should be left blank. Incomplete or defective Civil Services applications shall be summarily rejected. No representation or correspondence regarding such rejection shall be entertained under any circumstances.

Candidates are not required to submit along with their Civil Services applications any certificate in support of their claims regarding Age, Educational Qualifications, Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes / Other Backward Classes and Physically disabled etc. Which will be verified at the time of the Civil Services Main examination only.

The candidates applying for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination should ensure that they fulfil all the eligibility conditions for admission to the Civil Services Preliminary Examination.

Their admission at all the stages of Civil Services Preliminary Examination for which they are admitted by the Commission viz. Civil Services Preliminary Examination, Civil Services Main Examination and Interview Test will be purely provisional, subject to their satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions.

If on verification at any time before or after the Civil Services Preliminary Examination, Civil Services Main (written) Examination and Civil Services Interview Test, it is found that they do not fulfil any of the eligibility conditions, their candidature for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination will be cancelled by the UPSC Commission.

If any of their Claims is found to be Incorrect, they may render themselves liable to disciplinary action by the Union Public Service Commission in terms of rule 14 of the rules for the Civil Services Examination, 2010 reproduced below :

A candidate who is or has been declared by the Union Public Service Commission to be guilty of :

1. Obtaining support for his candidature by the following means, namely :
1. offering illegal gratification to, or
2. applying pressure on, or
3. blackmailing, or threatening to blackmail any person connected with the conduct of the Civil Services Preliminary Examination, or
2. impersonating, or
3. procuring impersonation by any person, or
4. submitting fabricated documents or documents which have been tampered with, or
5. making statements which are incorrect or false or suppressing material information, or
6. resorting to the following means in connection with his candidature for the examination, namely
1. obtaining copy of question paper through improper means,
2. finding out the particulars of the persons connected with secret work relating to the Civil Services examination.
3. influencing the examiners, or
7. using unfair means during the examination, or
8. writing obscene matter or drawing obscene sketches in the scripts, or
9. misbehaving in the Civil Services examination hall including tearing of the scripts, provoking fellow examinees to boycott examination, creating a disorderly scene and the like, or
10. harassing or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Union Public Service Commission for the conduct of their examinations, or
11. being in possession of or using mobile phone, paper or any electronic equipment or device or any other equipment capable of being used as a communication device during the Civil Services Preliminary Examination; or
12. violating any of the instructions issued to candidates along with their admission certificates permitting them to take the Civil Services examination; or
13. attempting to commit or as the case may be abetting the UPSC commission of all or any of the acts specified in the foregoing clauses;

may in addition to rendering himself liable to criminal prosecution, be liable.

1. to be disqualified by the Union Public Service Commission from the examination for which he is a candidate and / or
2. to be debarred either permanently or for a specified period
1. by the UPSC Commission from any examination or selection held by them;
2. by the Central Government from any employment under them; and
3. if he is already in service under Government to disciplinary action under the appropriate rules.

Provided that no penalty under this rules shall be imposed except after

1. giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation, in writing as he may wish to make in that behalf; and
2. taking the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate within the period allowed to him into consideration.

Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2010 - Application Form