UPSC(Union Public Service Commission)

What is it?

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Engineering Services Examination 2009

1. A Combined Competitive Examination for recruitment to the Services/posts which is held by the Union Public Service Commission in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) in the Gazette of India.
2. Engineers are the wind beneath the wings of modern civilization. Every time we catch a train or board a bus or use a telephone – we are using infrastructure planned, executed and administered by the engineers working for the Government. Entry into the central Government Services is through the Combined Engineering Services Examination Conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.

Eligibility

Eligibility Conditions for UPSC Engineering Services Exam 2008

(I) Nationality :

       A candidate must be either:

1. A citizen of India, or
2. A subject of Nepal, or
3. A subject of Bhutan, or
4. A Tibetan refugee who came over to Indian before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
5. A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

• Provided that a candidate belonging to categories b., c., d. and e. above shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

(II) Age Limits:

1. A candidate for this examination must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on the 1st August, 2008 i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1978 and not later than 1st August, 1987.
2. The upper age-limit of 30 years will be relaxable up to 35 years in the case of Government servants of the following categories, if they are employed in a Department/Office under the control of any of the authorities mentioned in column 1 below and apply for admission to the examination for all or any of the Service(s)/Posts mentioned in column 2, for which they are otherwise eligible.

• A candidate who holds substantively a permanent post in the particular Department/Office concerned. This relaxation will not be admissible to a probationer appointed against a permanent post in the Department/Office during the period of his probation.
• A candidate who has been continuously in a temporary service on a regular basis in the particular Department/Office for at least 3 years on the 1st August, 2008.
• 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 by the Government of India.

Railway Department	I.R.S.E. I.R.S.M.E. I.R.S.E.E. I.R.S.S.E. I.R.S.S
Central Public Works Department	C.E.S.—Group ‘A’ C.E. & M.E.S., Group ‘A’
Military Engineers Service, Army Headquarters	Indian Defense Service of Engineers (IDSE)
Directorate General Ordnance Factories	I.O.F.S. Group A
Central Water Commission	C.W.E. Service (Group A)
Central Electricity Authority	CPE Service (Group A)
Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organization	Engineer (Group 'A')
Indian Navy	Indian Naval Armament Service, Assistant Naval Store Officer Grade I
Border Roads Organization	Border Roads Engineering Service.
Geological Survey of India, M/o Science & Technology	Drilling Engineer (Jr.) Gr. 'A' Survey of India Service Gr. 'A'
Directorate Central of Supply and Disposal	ISS Group A, IIS Group A
Ministry of Communication and IT, Department of Telecommunications	P&T Building Works Group A Service (Civil)

NOTE : The period of apprenticeship if followed by appointment against working posts on the Railways may be treated as Railway Service for the purpose of age concession.

• The upper age-limit prescribed above will be further relaxable.

1. Up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
2. 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.
3. Up to a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989.
4. Up to a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Service personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area, and released as a consequence thereof;
5. Up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs /SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st August, 2008 and have been released under,

• On completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1st August, 2008) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency,
• On account of physical disability attributable to Military Service,
• On invalidment;

6. Up to a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Services as on 1st August, 2008 and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and they will be released on three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
7. Up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons.

Note (I) - Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who are also covered under any other clauses of Para 3 (II) c. above, viz. those coming under the category of Ex-servicemen, persons domiciled in the State of J & K, blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped etc. will be eligible for grant of cumulative age-relaxation under both the categories.

Note (II) - The term ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as ex-servicemen in the Ex-servicemen (Re- employment in Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979, as amended from time to time.

Note (III) - The age concession under Para 3(II) c., 5. and 6. will not be admissible to Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs, who are released on own request.

Note (IV) - Notwithstanding, the provision of age-relaxation under Para 3(II) c.,7 above, a physically handicapped candidate will be considered to be eligible for appointment only if he/she (after such physical examination as the Government or appointing authority, as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the requirement of physical and medical standards for the concerned Services/posts to be allocated to the physically handicapped candidates by the Government.

N.B - The candidature of a person who is admitted to the examination under the age concession mentioned in Para 3(II) b. above shall be cancelled if, after submitting his application he resigns from service or his services are terminated by his department/office either before or after taking the examination. He will, however, continue to be eligible if he is retrenched from the Service or post after submitting his application. A candidate who after submitting his application to the department is transferred to other department/office will be eligible to compete under departmental age concession provided his application has been forwarded by his parent department.

Save as provided above the age limits prescribed can in no case be relaxed.

1. The date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation or Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a certificate recognized by an Indian University as equivalent to matriculation or in an extract from a Register of matriculates maintained by a University and that extract must be certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination certificate.
2. These certificates are required to be submitted along with the detailed applications which will be required to be submitted by the candidates who qualify on the result of the written part of the examination.
3. No other document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extracts from Municipal Corporation, service records and the like will be accepted.
4. The expression Matriculation/Secondary Examination Certificate in this part of the instruction includes the alternative certificates mentioned above.

Note 1. Candidates should note that only the date of birth as recorded in the matriculation/secondary examination certificate or an equivalent certificate on the date of submission of application will be accepted by the commission and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or granted.

Note 2. Candidates should also note that once a date of birth has been claimed by the them and entered in the records of the commission for the purpose of admission to an examination, no change will be allowed subsequently (or at any other examination of the commission) on any grounds whatsoever.

Note 3. Candidates should exercise due care while entering their date of birth in column 8 of the application form. if on verification at any subsequent stage, any variation is found in their date of birth from the one entered in their matriculation or equivalent examination certificate, disciplinary action will be taken against them by the commission under the rules.

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Examination Pattern

UPSC Examination

The Examination shall be conducted according to the following plan:-

Part I

• The written examination will comprise two sections—Section I consisting only of objective types of questions and Section II of conventional papers.
• Both Sections will cover the entire syllabus of the relevant engineering disciplines viz. Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.
• The standard and syllabi prescribed for these papers are given in Schedule to the Appendix.
• The details of the written examination i.e. subject, duration and maximum marks allotted to each subject.

Part II

• Personality tests carrying a maximum of 200 marks of such of the candidates who qualify on the basis of the written examination.

The following will be the subjects for the written examination:-

I - Civil Engineering Engineering
Section	Subject	Duration	Maximum Marks
I - Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English) (Part B: General Studies)	2 hrs	200
	Civil Engineering Paper I	2 hrs	200
	Civil Engineering Paper II	2 hrs	200
II – Conventional Papers	Civil Engineering Paper I	3 hrs	200
	Civil Engineering Paper II	3 hrs	200
	Total		1000
II - Mechanical Engineering
Section	Subject	Duration	Maximum Marks
I - Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English) (Part B: General Studies)	2 hrs	200
	Mechanical Engineering Paper I	2 hrs	200
	Mechanical Engineering Paper II	2 hrs	200
II – Conventional Papers	Mechanical Engineering Paper I	3 hrs	200
	Mechanical Engineering Paper II	3 hrs	200
	Total		1000
III - Electrical Engineering
Section	Subject	Duration	Maximum Marks
I - Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English) (Part B: General Studies)	2 hrs	200
	Electrical Engineering Paper I	2 hrs	200
	Electrical Engineering Paper II	2 hrs	200
II – Conventional Papers	Electrical Engineering Paper I	3 hrs	200
	Electrical Engineering Paper II	3 hrs	200
	Total		1000
III - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Section	Subject	Duration	Maximum Marks
I - Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English) (Part B: General Studies)	2 hrs	200
	Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Paper I	2 hrs	200
	Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Paper II	2 hrs	200
II – Conventional Papers	Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Paper I	3 hrs	200
	Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Paper II	3 hrs	200
	Total		1000

Note : Candidates are advised to read carefully special instruction to candidates for conventional type tests and objective type tests given including the procedure regarding filling in the Answer Sheet of objective type tests in the Examination Hall.

1. In the Personality Test special attention will be paid to assessing the candidate’s capacity for leadership, initiative and intellectual curiosity, tact and other social qualities, mental and physical energy, powers of practical application and integrity of character.
2. Conventional papers must be answered in English. Question papers will be set in English only.
3. Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write the answers for them.
4. The Commission has discretion to fix minimum qualifying marks in any or all the papers of the examination. The Objective Type papers as contained in Section-I of the Plan of the Examination will be evaluated first and evaluation of the Conventional Type papers contained in Section-II of the Plan of Examination will be done only of those candidates who obtain the minimum qualifying marks in Objective types papers, as fixed by the Commission.
5. Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.
6. Deduction up to 5 per cent of the maximum marks for the written papers will be made for illegible handwriting.
7. Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in the conventional papers of the examination.
8. In the question papers, wherever required, SI units will be used.

Note : Candidates will be supplied with standard tables/charts in SI units in the Examination hall for reference purpose, wherever considered necessary.

I.    Candidates are permitted to bring and use battery operated pocket calculators for conventional (essay) type papers only. Loaning or inter-changing of calculators in the Examination hall is not permitted.

• It is also important to note that candidates are not permitted to use calculators for answering objective type paper (Test book lets).
• They should not, therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.

J.    Candidates should use only International form of Indian numerals (e.g. 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.) while answering question papers.

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Important Dates

UPSC Important Dates

Ser No	Name of Examination	Date of Notification (Saturday)	Last Date for Receipt of Applications  See Note 2 Below	Date/Day of Commencement of Examination	Duration of Examination
15	Engineering Services Exam 2009	10 Jan 2009	09 Feb 2009 (Monday)	06 Jun 2009 (Saturday)	3 Days