Combined State Agriculture Services Examination-2020

ADVT. NO : A-4/E-1/2020 UTTAR PRADESH PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Date : 29/12/2020

Date of Commencement of On-line Application : 29/12/2020 

Last Date for Receipt of Examination Fee On-line in the Bank: 25/01/2021

 Last Date for On-line Submission of Application: 29/01/2021

Application Fee: In the ON-LINE Application process, after completing the procedure of first stage, Category wise prescribed examination fee is to be deposited as per instructions provided in second stage. The prescribed fee of priliminary examination for different categories is as under:-

 (i) Unreserved / – Exam fee Rs. 100/- + On-line processing Economically weaker fee Rs. 25/- Total = Rs. 125/- Sections / Other Backward Class

(ii) Scheduled Caste / – Exam fee Rs. 40/- + On-line processing Scheduled Tribe / fee Rs. 25/- Total = Rs. 65/- Ex-Serviceman

 (iii) Handicapped – Exam fee NIL + On-line processing fee Rs. 25/- Total = Rs. 25/-

 (iv) Dependents of the Freedom–According to their original category Fighters/Women

No. of Vacancies: Presently, the no. of vacancies is 564 which may increase or decrease depending upon the circumstances/requirements. Pay Scale:–The posts having the pay scale of ` 9300–34800/- Grade Pay ` 4600/- (Revised Pay Scale Level-7 Pay matrix ` 44900-142400/-) to ` 15600-39100/- Grade Pay ` 5400/- (Revised Pay Scale ` 56100- 177500 Pay Matrix Level-10) are included in aforesaid Examination.

 

Reservation: The reservation for Economically weaker sections of U.P./Scheduled Castes of U.P./Scheduled Tribes of U.P./Other Backward Class candidates of U.P. shall be admissible in accordance with the provisions of relevant Govt. Rules. Accordingly, reservation for category under horizontal as Dependents of Freedom Fighters of U.P., P.H. of U.P. Ex-service man of U.P. and Women candidates shall be admissible as per rules.

Educational Qualifications: The candidates must passess prescribed qualification upto the last date for receipt of on-Line application. This should be mentioned by the candidates in the relevent column of their on-Line application form. Educational qualifications for the different posts as specified in the relevent service rule are as follows:– 

Group 'A' Post through written Examination and Interview 

1. Distt. Horticulture B.Sc. (Agriculture)/B.Sc. (Horticulture) degree Officer, Group–2 Grade–1

 from a recognised University or Institute. 

Group 'B' Post only through written Examination

1(i) Senior Technical Assistant Group-A (Agronomy Branch) Postgraduate degree in Agronomy from  recognized university or institution must be a graduate in Agriculture.

Age Limit: (i) Candidates must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have crossed the age of 40 years on July 1, 2020 i.e. they must have not been born earlier than 2nd July, 1980 and not later than July 1, 1999. For PH candidates, the maximum age limit is 55 years i.e. they must have not been born before 02 July, 1965,

(ii) Relaxation in Upper Age Limit: (a) Upper age limit shall be greater by five years for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes of U.P., Scheduled Tribes of U.P., Other Backward Classes of U.P., Skilled players of U.P. of classified Games, State Govt. employees of U.P. including the teachers/Staff of Basic Shiksha Parishad of U.P. and teachers/Staff of the Govt. Aided Madhyamik Vidyalayas of U.P. i.e. they must have not been born before 2nd July 1975. (b) Upper age limit shall be greater by fifteen years for physically handicapped persons of U.P. (c) Upper age limit shall also be greater by five years for Group-"B" posts for the Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers/Ex-Army Personnel's of U.P. who have rendered five years service in Army but there shall be no reservation for Group- "B" posts. For Group "C" posts the age relaxation and reservation shall be given according to Rule.

In the Preliminary Examination for the objective type Question papers, penalty (Negative Marking) shall be imposed for wrong answers given by the candidates which is as below:– (i) There are four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one third (0.33) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. (ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answer happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question. (iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

he minimum efficiency standard for S.C. & S.T. candidates is fixed 35% i.e. the Candidates of these Categories shall not be placed in the merit/select list if they have secured less than 35% marks in the Preliminary/Main examination. Similarly, the minimum efficiency standard for the candidates of other categories is fixed 40% i.e. such candidates shall not be placed in the merit/select list if they have secured less than 40% marks in the Preliminary/Main examination. All such candidates who have secured less marks than the marks of minimum efficiency standard as fixed by the Commission shall be treated disqualify.

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