DAF Form registration will soon be replaced by the new. The decision is being taken for providing enhanced convenience to the candidates, streamline the application process and optimise the examination cycle, he said.
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UPSC conducts the civil services examination (CSE) annually in accordance with the CSE rules notified by the Department of Personnel & Training, said Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel. “A new module of registration and online application form will replace the Detailed Application Form (DAF)-I and DAF-II has been introduced by UPSC in CSE-2025,” he said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
Singh cited sections of the notified rules that make it mandatory for the applicant to submit requisite information and supporting documents towards various claims, such as date of birth, reservation category and educational qualification among others along with the online application form.
The new changes will be implemented and will be intimated to the public soon. The concern kept in mind that if the candidates fail to provide the required information/documents along with the registration and online application form will entail cancellation of candidature for the examination,” read the rules.
The candidates have to pass through three stages for being selected for this coveted post as mentioned below
– preliminary, main and interview — to select officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
The minister also replied to medical science subject in the Civil Service exam in a separate reply, the minister said at present, medical science is one of the subjects on the list of optional subjects for the civil services (main) examination. The matter of inclusion of any new subject as an optional subject for the civil services examination has been examined in the Department of Personnel and Training and “it has not been found feasible to consider the same”, he said.
The question is answered regarding the non inclusion of pharmacy in civil service exam to which Singh was responding in the parliament.
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