Hey!!!! As per your demand here I am telling you Eligibility Criteria required for applying for UPSC Indian Forest Service Examination


-Age Limit:

The age limit is 21 to 32 years

The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable in the follwing cases:

-Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe: upto a maximum of five years.

-Other Backward Classes: upto a maximum of three years.

-State of Jammu & Kashmir (Domiciled during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to 31stupto a maximum of five years. December, 1989:

-Defence Services personnel (disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof): upto a maximum of five years.

-Ex-servicemen including Commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on and have been released (i) on completion of assignment otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or (ii) on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service, or (iii) on invalidment: upto a maximum of five years.

-ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service 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 that they will be released on three month's notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment : upto a maximum of five years.

-Blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons: upto a maximum of ten years.


Educational Qualifications:

The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree with at least one of the following subjects:

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology, Agriculture, Forestry, Agriculture Engineering, Forestry Engineering.


-Number of Attempts:


The maximum number of attempts restriction is effective from the examination held in 1984.

In case other eligibility conditions apply:

-General candidates: four attempts.

-Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates: No restriction.

-Other Backward Classes: seven attempts.