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Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2024 registration process conducted by the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) will conclude in just nine calendar days; IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS, and other budding aspirants are advised to fill up the application form. While the female, SC, ST, and Persons with Benchmark Disability candidates are exempted from paying the UPSC CSE Prelims application fee, other candidates are required to pay a fee of Rs. 100 either by remitting the money in any Branch of the State Bank of India by cash or by using the net banking facility of any bank or by using Visa/Master/RuPay/Credit/Debit Card/UPI payment. One can register for the UPSC CSE Prelims Examination, 2024 at upsc.gov.in and upsconline.nic.in.
Speaking of the competitive examination, let us tell you that this year, the number of vacancies to be filled through the examination is expected to be approximately 1056. This will include 40 vacancies reserved for Persons with Benchmark Disability Category, i.e. 06 Vacancies for candidates of (a) blindness and low vision; 12 Vacancies for (b) deaf and hard of hearing; 09 Vacancies for (c) locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy; and 13 Vacancies for (e) multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (a) to (c) including deaf-blindness.
According to the official notice, the final number of vacancies may undergo change after getting firm number of
vacancies from Cadre Controlling Authorities. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes. Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, the Economically Weaker Sections and Persons with Benchmark Disability in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
Candidates are required to apply online by using the website upsconline.nic.in. The applicant needs to register himself/herself first at the UPSC One Time Registration (OTR) platform, available on the Commission’s website, and then proceed to fill up the online application for the examination. OTR has to be registered only once in a lifetime. This can be done anytime throughout the year. If the candidate is already registered, he/she can proceed straightway for filling up the online application for the examination.
The Commission has also decided to extend the facility of correcting (s) in any field(s) of the application form for this examination from the next day of the closure of the application window of the examination. The window will remain open for 7 days from the date of opening of the same, i.e., from March 6 to March 12, 2024. In case a candidate wants to carry out any change in his/her OTR profile during this period, then he/she should log in to the OTR platform and do the needful accordingly. In other words, no change in the OTR profile can be made by visiting the window for modification in the application form.
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