The Rules for a competitive examination to be held by the Union Public Service Commission in 2022 to fill vacancies of Assistant Commandants in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) viz. Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) are published for general information.
1. The number of vacancies to be filled through the examination will be specified in the Notice issued by the Commission. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and the Economically Weaker Sections. 10% of the total vacancies will be reserved for ExServiceman candidates. An Ex-serviceman candidate of UR/SC/ST/OBC/EWSs category will be counted against the vacancies of the respective category.
NOTE:
In case the vacancy reserved for Ex-servicemen remain unfilled due to the non-availability of eligible or qualified candidates, the same shall be filled by candidates from the non-ex-servicemen category.
2. The examination will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission in the manner prescribed in Appendix-I to these rules. The dates on which and the places at which the examination will be held shall be fixed by the Commission.
3. No person who is not a citizen of India shall be appointed or employed under these Rules except with the consent of the Central Government signified in writing. Provided that nothing contained in these rules shall debar the appointment, enrolment, or employment of a subject of Nepal or Bhutan under these rules.
4. Both Male and Female candidates will be eligible for this examination.
5(a) A candidate must have attained the age of 20 years and should not exceed the age of 25 years on 1st August 2022 i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd August 1997 and not later than 1st August 2002.
Note-I:
Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who are also covered under any other category of Para 5(b) above, viz. those coming under the category of Civilian Central Government Servants / Ex-servicemen 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 Service and Posts) Rules, 1979, as amended from time to time and the decision on the issue of the eligibility of ex-servicemen shall be governed by the decision taken by the DoP&T on the communication of the UPSC dated 22.12.2020 concerning the judgment of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi in Writ Petition (C) No.520/2020 dated 1.12.2020.
Note-III: The term “Civilian Central Government Servants” in Para 5(b)(iii) above will apply to persons who are defined as “Government Servants” in the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control, and Appeal) Rules, 1965 as amended from time to time.
Note IV: The age concession under rule 5(b)(iii) will be admissible to Ex-Servicemen i.e. a person who has served in any rank whether as a combatant or non-combatant in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of the Indian Union and who either has been retired or relieved or discharged from such service whether at his request or being relieved by the employer after earning his or her pension. (b) The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable-
(i) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
(ii) 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;
(i) writing obscene matter or drawing obscene sketches or irrelevant matter in the scripts; or
(j) misbehaving in the examination hall including tearing of the scripts, provoking fellow examinees to boycott examination, creating a disorderly scene, and the like; or
(k) harassing, threatening, or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Commission for the conduct of the examination; or
(l) having or using any mobile phone, (even in switched-off mode), pager or any electronic equipment or programmable device or storage media like pen drive, smart watches, etc. or camera or Bluetooth devices or any other equipment or related accessories (either in working or switched-off mode) capable of being used as a communication device during the examination; or
(m) violating any of the instructions issued to candidates along with their admission certificates permitting them to take the examination; or
Provided that candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections or the Ex-servicemen may be summoned for the Physical Standards/Physical Efficiency Tests and Medical Standards Tests by the Commission by applying relaxed standards if the Commission thinks that a sufficient number of candidates from these categories are not likely to be summoned for the Physical Standards/Physical Efficiency Tests and Medical Standards Tests based on the general standard to fill up the vacancies reserved for them.
The Physical Standards / Physical Efficiency Tests and Medical Standards Tests will be conducted under the supervision of a Nodal Authority to be appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs. These tests will be conducted at various centers to be notified after the results of the written examination.
All candidates declared unfit during Detailed Medical Examination (DME) will submit their consent for RME in prescribed proforma duly signed by the candidate and the same should be submitted within 24 hours after he/she is informed of his/her unfitness in DME.
Candidates, who are declared qualified in the Medical Standards Tests {consisting of Detailed Medical Examination (DME) & Review Medical Examination (RME), if required}, will be called for the Interview/Personality Test to be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. Candidates, who are declared unfit during Detailed Medical Examination (DME) will be allowed to undergo Review Medical Examination (RME), provided they give their written consent by appending their signature on the intimation indicating the reasons for being unfit. The Interview/Personality Test will carry 150 marks.
A woman candidate, who as a result of a test is found to be pregnant of 12 weeks standing or over, shall be declared temporarily unfit and her appointment is held in abeyance until the confinement is over. The vacancy against which a woman candidate was selected should be kept reserved for her. She should be re-examined for the Physical Efficiency Test six weeks after the date of confinement, subject to the production of the medical certificate of fitness from a registered medical practitioner. If she is found fit she may be appointed to the post kept reserved for and allow the benefit of seniority by the instructions of the Government, as amended from time to time.
After the interview, the candidates will be arranged by the Commission in the order of merit as disclosed by the aggregate marks finally awarded to each candidate in the Examination. Thereafter, the Commission shall, to recommend candidates against unreserved vacancies, fix a qualifying mark (hereinafter referred to as general qualifying standard) concerning the number of unreserved vacancies to be filled up based on the Examination. To recommend reserved category candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, and the Ex-servicemen against reserved vacancies, the Commission may relax the general qualifying standard concerning the number of reserved vacancies to be filled up in each of these categories based on the examination.
Provided that the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Other Backward Classes and the Economically Weaker Sections who have not availed themselves of any of the concessions or relaxations in the eligibility or the selection criteria, at any stage of the examination and who after taking into account the general qualifying standards are found fit for recommendation by the Commission shall not be recommended against the vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Other Backward Classes, and the Economically Weaker Sections. However, this provision will not apply in the case of Ex-serviceman candidates who will be counted towards a 10% reservation irrespective of the merit/marks obtained.
The candidates recommended in terms of the provisions of Sub-rule(4), shall be allocated by the government to the services, and where certain vacancies remain to be filled up, the Government may forward a requisition to the Commission requiring it to recommend, in order of merit from the reserve list, the same number of candidates as requisitioned for the unfilled vacancies in each category.
Suppose a candidate indicates in his/her application form for Central Armed Police Forces (Assistant Commandants) Examination that he/she belongs to the General category but subsequently writes to the Commission to change his/her class to a reserved one. In that case, such request shall not be entertained by the Commission. Further, once a candidate has chosen a reserved category, no request shall be entertained for change to another reserved category viz. SC to ST, ST to SC, OBC to SC/ST or SC/ST to OBC, SC to EWS, EWS to SC, ST to EWS, EWS to ST, OBC to EWS, EWS to OBC. No reserved category candidates other than those recommended on General Merit shall be allowed to change his/her class from Reserved to Unreserved or claim the vacancies (Forces) for the UR category after the declaration of the final result by UPSC.
Candidates should ensure that in Paper II they write the Answers only in the Medium allowed by the Commission for the different components as mentioned above. No credit will be given for answers written in a medium other than the one allowed in the Paper.