Eligibility Criteria for IPS Exam - Physical and Educational
77There are three All India Services in India – Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), and Indian Forest Service (IFS). These three services along with a Central Service named Indian Foreign Service (IFS) has distinct glamour in India which emanates from the power, prestige, and most importantly the responsibility that comes with these services.
Indian Police Service (IPS) is considered as the second most preferred career choice in India next to IAS. However, when it comes to courage, brevity, and charm IPS is the best. There are some misconceptions among Indian youths about the eligibility criteria to become an IPS officer. This article is an attempt to decipher all those criteria – physical and educational – at one place so that aspirants can see the horizon clearly.
Educational and Related Criteria
To become an IPS officer you need to be a graduate from a recognized university. That’s it. This is education eligibility for Civil Services Exam conducted by UPSC. Two All India Services namely IAS and IPS are part of Civil Services Examination along with about 20 Central Services which include Indian Foreign Service (IFS). Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers are not selected through this exam. UPSC didn’t ask for any percentage marks. All you need to have is a graduation degree to appear for IPS, i.e., for Civil Services Exam.
UPSC asks similar age requirement for all services that participates in yearly Civil Services Exam. The minimum age requirement is 21 and maximum is 30 for General Category aspirants. For OBC, the maximum age requirement becomes 33 and for SC/ST it becomes 35 while minimum age remains the same for all three categories.
Needless to say, you need to be an Indian Citizen to become a part of All India Services. It means to say to become an IPS officer you need to be an Indian Citizen. Migrants from certain countries with a cut-off date are allowed for Central Services, but not for IPS, IAS, and IFS (Forest).
Add to this, after the declaration of Prelims result you will be asked to fill a Detailed Application Form (DAF) where you need to mention about your choice for all services – IAS, IPS, and Central Services. Much will depend on your choice, final rank, and category to be allotted the career choice.
Physical Eligibility for IPS
Indian Police Service officers are supposed to work in a different environment. They are supposed to maintain the law and order of a vast diverse country like India which is nothing short of a challenge in some cases like in Maoists dominated areas. Hence, naturally UPSC asks for some different physical requirements from aspirants who want to become an IPS officer.
1. Height: Minimum height for men and women is fixed at 165 cm and 150 cm. The requirement of minimum height is same for General, OBC, and SC categories aspirants. However, there is some relaxation of 5 cm for both men and women in case of them belonging to ST, and some particular races like Assamese, Gorkhas, Garhwalias, etc.
2. Permitted problems in Vision: Total amount of Myopia which includes cylinder should be less than -4D, and total amount of Hypermetropia which again includes cylinder should not exceed +4D.
3. Additionally, aspirants must have high grade color vision and binocular vision.
4. Chest Girth expandable: Men - 84 cm, Women - 79 cm. [expansion: 5cm].
5. Spectacles is allowed, but UPSC doesn’t mention anything about Lasik.
6. All joints should show perfect motion.
7. One more common misconception is about the physical test. Please keep this in mind that UPSC will conduct only medical test. There will not be any physical test.
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i m in bca last year. Kya bca ke baad mai IPS ke liye apply kar sakta hu.
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sir,my right hand bone fractured twice in my childhood it is ok now but i cant bend it fully 85% i can bend. am i not eligible for IPS.please explain......
i want to join civil services but i do not know can i am apply or i am aligible for it . iam doing m.a in eco
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Now I am in Army as a autotech.I prepair for Ips exam.Can any age relaxation aplicable for me.My date of birth 16-07-1985.
Respected sir/madam,
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sir,
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thanx alote for this...
sir
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sir,
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in the past i have met with an accident and fractures 3-4 boned in my leg...but now i'm ok.. n can run and do ol kinds of work a leg should do. so will i pass in d medical test which is conducted for ips...??
Sir, I'm handicapped for left hand. (40%)
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Sir
My name is Ashish Negi.I am a student of B.Sc final year.can I given IPS exam in this year.
Sir meri hihgt 163 c.m hai or mai Garwal se belong karta hun kya mai eligible hun is test k liye?
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Sir
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sujeet 8 days ago
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