UPSC CSE Notification 2024

UPSC CSE 2024 Eligibility

i) Nationality

• For the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Foreign Service and the Indian Police Service, a
  candidate must be a citizen of India.
• For other services, a candidate must be either:—
  a citizen of India, or
  a subject of Nepal, or
  a subject of Bhutan, or
  a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently
  settling in India, or
  a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries
  of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam
  with the intention of permanently settling in India.
• Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour
  a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
• A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination
  but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to
  him/her by the Government of India.

(II) Age Limits:

(1) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32
years on the 1st of August, 2024 i.e., the candidate must have been born not earlier than 2nd August,
1992 and not later than 1st August, 2003.
(2) The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxable:
(a) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled
Tribe;
(b) up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward
Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates;
(c) up to a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services Personnel, disabled in
operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as
a consequence thereof;

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