Civil Service is the most covered employment in India. Choice for the employments under Civil Services is done through the three pronged exam design Prelims - Mains - Interview that is led by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

Age limits

A competitor more likely than not accomplished the age of 21 years and must not have achieved the age of 32 years on the first of August, 2017 i.e., he/she probably been conceived not sooner than second August, 1985 and not later than first August, 1996.
The upper age confine endorsed above is casual:

Up to a most extreme of five years if an applicant has a place with a Scheduled Caste (SC) or a Scheduled Tribe (ST).

Up to a most extreme of three years on account of applicants having a place with Other Backward Classes (OBC) who are qualified to benefit of reservation appropriate to such competitors

Up to a most extreme of five years if a competitor had commonly been domiciled in the State of Jammu and Kashmir amid the period from the first January, 1980 to the 31st December, 1989

Up to a greatest of three years on account of Defense Services work force incapacitated in operations amid dangers with any outside nation or in an aggravated territory and discharged as an outcome thereof.

Up to a most extreme of five years on account of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered no less than five years Military Service as on first August, 2017 and have been discharged

On finish of task (counting those whose task is expected to be finished inside one year from first August, 2017) generally than by method for expulsion or release because of wrongdoing or wastefulness, or by virtue of physical inability owing to Military Service, or on invalidment.

Up to a most extreme of five years on account of ECOs/SSCOs who have finished an underlying time of task of five years Military Service as on first August, 2017 and whose task has been stretched out past five years and for whose situation the Ministry of Defense issues an endorsement that they can apply for common work and that they will be discharged on three months' notice on determination from the date of receipt of offer of arrangement

Up to a most extreme of 10 years on account of visually impaired, hard of hearing quiet and orthopedically crippled people.

NOTE I:

Applicants having a place with the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who are likewise secured under whatever other provisions of para 3(ii) (b) above, viz. those going under the classification of Ex-servicemen, people domiciled in the State of J and K, visually impaired, hard of hearing quiet and orthopedically impeded and so on will be qualified for give of aggregate age-unwinding under both the classes.

NOTE II:

The term ex-servicemen will apply to the people who are characterized as ex-servicemen in the Ex-servicemen (Re-work in Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979, as corrected now and again.

NOTE III:

The age concession under para 3(ii) (b) (v) and (vi) won't be allowable to Ex Servicemen and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs who are discharged on claim ask.

NOTE IV:

Despite the arrangement of age-unwinding under para 3 (ii) (b) (vii) over, a physically incapacitated hopeful will be thought to be qualified for arrangement just on the off chance that he/she (after such physical examination as the Government or naming expert, all things considered, may recommend) is found to fulfill the prerequisites of physical and medicinal measures for the concerned Services/presents on be apportioned to the physically debilitated competitors by the Government.