Application for Preliminary Examination for Manipur Civil Service

Examination, 2013 under the Manipur Civil Seruices Combined Competitive Examination

Rules, 2010 for selecting candidates for the Main Examination for recruitment to the following

posts:-

Name of the post

• Manipur Civil Service-Grade-II (Group -A) 
• Manipur Police Seruice-Grade-II (Group -A)
• Manipur Finance Service-Grade-III (Group-A)
• Sub-Deputy Collector ( Group -A)
• Election Officer (Group -A)

The number of vacancies is liable to change. 

Centre of Examination : Imphal

 Eligibility Conditions :

(i) The candidate must be a citizen of India.

(ii) Age Limit : (a) Shall not be less than 21 years and not more than 30 years as on

lst of July, 2013.

(b) The upper age limit is relaxable by 5 years for SC/ST, 3 years for OBC and 10

years for Persons with Disabilities. Candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC who are also

physically handicapped will be eligible for grant of cumulative age relaxation under

both the categories.

(c) Further, the upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years for candidates of all categories

as a last time and the maximum age limit for all categories of candidates shall be :-

(i) 35 years for General category;

(ii) 38 years for OBC;

(iii) 40 years for SC & ST;

(iv) 45 years for visually impaired, hearing impaired and ofthopadicaly

candidates belonging to General category;

(v) 48 years for visually impaired, hearing impaired and orthopadicaly

candidates belonging to OBC; and

(vi) 50 years for visually impaired, hearing impaired and ofthopadicaly

belonging to SC & ST.

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

(iii) EducationalQualifications:

A candidate must hold a degree of any of the 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 as prescribed under Clause 6 (iii) of Schedule II, Chapter I of the Manipur Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination Rules, 2010.

Note: AII candidates, who are declared qualified by the Commission for taking Combined Competitive (Main) Examination will be required to produce proof of passing the requisite examination along with their application for the Main Examination failing which candidates will not be admitted to the Main Examination.

Note:2 Candidates possessing professional and technical qualifications which are recognized by the Government as equivalent to professional and technical degree would also be eligible for admission to the Examination.

Note:3 Candidates who have passed the final professional MBBS or any other Medical Examination but have not completed their Internship by the time of submission of their application for Combined Competitive (Main) Examination, will be provisionally admitted to the Examination provided they submit along with their application a copy of certificate from the concerned authority of the University/Institution that they had passed the requisite final professional medical examination. In such cases, the candidates will be required to produce at the time of their interview, original degree or a certificate from the concerned competent authority for the University/Institution that they had completed all requirements (including completion of Internship) for award of the Degree.

(iv) No. of attempts :

(a) 4(four) attempts for general candidates,

(b) 7(seven) attempts for OBCs,

(c) No restriction for SC/ST candidates who are otherwise eligible.

(d) A physically disabled person will get as many attempts as are available to other non-physically handicapped candidates of his or her community, subject to the condition that a physically handicapped candidate belonging to General Category shall be eligible for seven attempts. The relaxation will be available to the physically handicapped candidates who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates.

Note: 

I. An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be deemed to be an attempt at the Examination, 

II. Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.

FEE : Rs. 200/-(Gen & OBC) and Rs. 50/- (SC & ST) in cash payable to the Secretary, Manipur

Public Service Commission, Imphal. Physically handicapped candidates are exempted from payment of fee. Any other forms of payment will not be entertained. Applications not accompanied by the full prescribed fee will not be considered except for the physically handicapped candidates.

The prescribed application forms along with syllabus for Preliminary Examination and information to the candidates will be available on payment of Rs. 50/- from the counter of the office of MPSC during office hour from 03-08-2013.

The candidate or his/ her representative shall submit in person/ by hand the dully filled in

application forms along with the self addressed stamped(Rs 5/-) envelope of the size of 23x10 cm. 

In no case the candidates should submit their application forms through postal service/ couriers in the wake of the uncertainty of postal seruices at this present juncture. Loss or delay due to postal service will not be the responsibility of the Commission and no claims in such matters will be entertained.

All candidates in service other than casual or muster roll will be required to state in the application Form that they have informed in writing their employer/controlling authority that they have applied for the examination, In case the employer or the controlling authority withholds permission to the candidates applying for appearing at the examination their application will be rejected and his/her candidature will be liable to be cancelled.

The last date for issue and receipt of application form is 09-09-2013.

Admission Card will be issued from 30-09-2013.

No candidate will be admitted to the Preliminary/Main Examination unless he/she hold acertificate of admission from the Commission for that purpose.

The decision of the Commission as to the eligibility or otherwise of a candidate for admission to the Examination shall be final. If on verification at any time before or after the Preliminary Examination, Main Examination and Interview, it is found that a candidate does not fulfill any of the eligibility condition, his/her candidature for the Examination will be cancelled by the commission.

Preliminary Examination will be held on 13-10-2013.

The plan of the Combined Competitive Examination is as given below :

The Combined Competitive Examination will consist of the Preliminary and the Main Examination.

The preliminary Examination will consist of only one paper viz, 

General Studies - 300 marks and will be of 3 (three) hours duration.

Note : The question paper will be set in English and will be objective type multiple-choice questions. The main Examination will consist of written examination and Interview/ Personality Test. The written examination will consist of the following papers : -

1.  PAPER{ (General English)(Qualifying) - 300 marks,
2.  PAPER- II (Essay) - 300 marks,
3.  PAPER-III & IV (General Studies) - 300 marks for each paper,
4.  PAPER-V, VI VII and VIII (any 2 subjects to be selected from the list of optional subjects)given below. Each subject will have 2 papers of 300 marks each. Each paper will be of 3(three) hours duration.

List of Optional subiects for Main Examination :-

(1) Agriculture, (2) Anthropology, (3) Animal Husbandry & Vety. Science,(4) Botany, (5) Chemistry, (6) Civil Engineering, (7) Commerce & Accountancy, (8) Computer Science,(9) Economics, (10) Education, (11) Electrical Engineering, (12) Geography, (13) Geology, (14) Indian History, (15) Law,  (16) Management, (17) Mathematics, (18) Mechanical Engineering, (19) Medical Science, (20) Philosophy, (21) Physics, (22) Political Science,& International Relations,(23) Psychology,(24) Public Admin istration,(25) Sociology, (26) Statistics,  (27)Zoology, (28) Literature of one of the following languages: Manipuri, Hindi, and English,

Language          Script

Hindi               Devanagari,

Manipuri          Bengali

English            English, 

Note : (i) The paper on General English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature. The marks obtained in this paper will not be counted for ranking.

(ii) The papers on Essay, General Studies and Optional subjects of only such candidates will beevaluated as attained such minimum standard as may be fixed by the Commission in their discretion for the qualifying papers i.e. General English.

(iii) For the literature papers of the Languages Viz. Hindi, Manipuri and English the scripts to be used are Devanagari, Bengali and English respectively.

(g) Of the Engineering Subjects viz . Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering- not more than one subject,

(h) Animal Husbandry & Vety. Science and Medical Science, (i) Education and Philosophy or Psychology or Sociology. (ii) The question papers for the main Examination will be of conventional (Essay) type.

Question papers in all the subjects shall be answered in English except those in the literature papers of the languages in which the answer should be in the script concerned.

Interview/Personality Test will carry 200 marks.

For more details, visit to commission's website http://mpscmanipur.gov.in/