TAMIL NADU PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
NOTIFICATION / ADVERTISEMENT
GROUP – I SERVICES
Applications are invited upto 5.45 p.m on 29-01-2010 for direct recruitment to the following posts included in Group-I Services (Service Code. 001):-

Name of the Post
Deputy Collector : 13
Deputy Superintendent of Police (Category-I) : 8
Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies : 23
Assistant Director of Rural Development Department : 17

IMPORTANT DATES AND TIME:-
A Date of Notification 20-12-2009 -
B Last date for receipt of applications 29-01-2010 5.45 P.M.
C Date of Preliminary Examination 02-05-2010 10.00 A.M. - 1.00 P.M.

SCALE OF PAY(for all posts):- Revised Pay (PB3) -Rs.15600-39100 + Grade Pay Rs.5400/-
(Pre-revised Pay : 8000-275-13500/-)

QUALIFICATIONS: -
(A) AGE (as on 01.07.2009):
(i) MINIMUM AGE LIMIT - Should have completed 21 years (for all candidates)
(i.e. should have been born on or before 01.07.1988)
(ii) MAXIMUM AGE LIMIT - Should not have completed -
(a) 35 years for SCs, STs, MBCs/DCs, BC(OBCM)s, BCMs and Destitute Widows of all castes.
(b) 30 years for candidates not belonging to any of the above said categories.

Age relaxation of 5 years in the maximum age limit will be applicable to persons affected by the ban order as per the orders issued by the Government
(Hence, candidates pertaining to (a) and (b) above should have been born on or after 02.07.1969 and 02.07.1974 respectively

PROCEDURE OF SELECTION:-
The selection will be made in three successive stages, viz. (i)` Preliminary Examination for selection of candidates for admission to the Main Written Examination (ii) Main Written Examination followed by (iii) an Oral Test in the shape of an Interview. For further details candidates should refer paragraph 22 (a) & (b) of the ‘Instructions, etc., to candidates’.

SCHEME & CENTRES FOR THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION:-
(a) Scheme of Preliminary Examination :
The Preliminary Examination will be in Single Paper of objective type in the Subject General Knowledge (Degree Standard)of 3 Hours duration having 200 questions, with a maximum of 300 marks.
The question paper will be set both in Tamil and English. The syllabus for the Preliminary Examination and the Main Written Examination have been published at page 490 in the
TNPSC Bulletin, dated 01.08.2004. The syllabi are also available at the Commission’s Website: www.tnpsc.gov.in
(b)Centres for Preliminary Examination:
The Preliminary Examination will be held at the Centres mentioned under classes A, B, C, and D in
Annexure I of the ‘Information Brochure to candidates’ and at Karaikudi (Centre Code: 138).
Candidates should choose any one of the above centres and appear for the examination at their own expenses. Request for change of centre will not be complied with. The Commissionreserves the right to increase or decrease the number of Examination Centres and to re-allot the candidates.

EXAMINATION FEE:-
(i) For Preliminary Examination Rs. 75/- (Rupees Seventy five only).
(ii) For Main Written Examination Rs. 125/- (Rupees One hundred and twenty five only).
The fee for Preliminary Examination should be paid only through any one of the Post Offices listed in Annexure –III to the Information Brochure and the Postal Receipt obtained for the payment of fee should be pasted in the space provided in the application form. Candidates (other than those who apply Online) should inform the Counter Clerk of the Post Office their OMR application Number for obtaining the Postal Receipt. The fee for Main Written Examination should be paid by those, who are to be admitted to the Main Written Examination based on the result of Preliminary Examination, on receipt of intimation from the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, unless exemption of fee is claimed

ISSUE OF APPLICATION FORMS: -
a) OMR application form along with an Information Brochure containing General Instructions for filling up the application form, Commission's 'Instructions, etc., to candidates' and an envelope for sending application can be obtained from any one of the HEAD POST OFFICES or selected Sub-Post Offices (284 Nos.) in Tamil Nadu / Puducherry on payment of Rs 30/-. (The list showing the names of Post Offices is available at the Commissions Website: www.tnpsc.gov.in).

b) OMR application forms can also be obtained in person from the sales counter of the office of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, Omanthoorar Government Estate, Anna Salai, Chennai-600 002,
on all the working days till the closing date upto 5.00 p.m. (excluding lunch interval between 1.30 and 2.00 p.m.) on cash payment of Rs.30/-. Application forms will not be supplied to the candidates by Post.

c). Candidates should use only the OMR application form. No other typed or printed or Xeroxed / Photocopy of the application form will be accepted and such application, if any received, will be summarily rejected.
Note:- THE OMR APPLICATION FORMS BEARING NUMBERS AA 000001 TO AA 1,00,000 FOUND IN THE OMR APPLICATION COVERS BEARING NUMBERS : AG 000001 TO AG 1,00,000 ARE TREATED AS APPLICATION FORMS IN ‘AG’ SERIES.

d) Candidates can also avail of the facility of applying Online at the Commission’s Website www.tnpsc.gov.in Candidates applying Online should possess and keep ready Postal Receipt for Rs.105/- (i.e. Application fee Rs.30/- and Examination fee Rs. 75/-) obtained from any one of the Post Offices listed in Annexure-III to the Information Brochure to candidates before registering Online. Candidates claiming exemption from payment of Examination fee should possess and keep ready Postal Receipt for Rs.30/- towards the application fee. The Postal Receipt obtained for the payment of Application Fee/ Examination Fee should be pasted in the space provided in the application form. Candidates applying Online shall also abide by the Commission’s instructions laid down in this Notification / Advertisement/Commission’s ‘Instructions, etc., to candidates’ / Information Brochure to candidates. Candidates applying Online should send the applications (i.e. The printout generated from the website and signed by the candidate) with the Postal Receipt along with attested copies of required Certificates so as to reach the Commission’s office on or before the last date for receipt of applications, failing which his/her application will be rejected. The facility of applying Online will be closed at 5.45.p.m on 27-01-2010 .

Last date:
Filled in applications must be sent to the Controller of Examinations,
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission,
Omanthoorar Government Estate,
Anna Salai,
Chennai 600 002
well in advance, so as to reach the Commission's Office before 5.45 p.m. on 29-01-2010.

For more details :
http://www.tnpsc.gov.in/Notification..._grp1_2009.pdf