Panchayat raj and rural development service district registrars

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ANDHRA PRADESH PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION: VIJAYAWADA

Once applicant registers his/her particulars, a user ID is generated and sent to his/her registered mobile number and email ID.

Note: i. One Time Registration is not considered as an application for any post under any circumstances.

in the 2 nd half of March, 2023.

The candidates are required to visit the Commissions website regularly to keep himself / herself updated about confirmed dates of Examination to be held. Instructions regarding Written Examination are attached as Annexure - III. The candidate has to choose the medium in which he/she wants to write the examination and the paper will be valued with reference to that medium only.

website regularly for the purpose.

1.11. The details of vacancies are as follows:-
CARRIED FORWARD VACANCIES

FRESH VACANCIES

Note: If the applicant possesses an equivalence of qualification other than prescribed qualification in the Commission’s notification, applicant should produce a copy of the Government Orders to the Commission in advance within 10 days of last date for submitting applications, failing which their application will be rejected.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:-

For Post Code No. 03 ,04 & 05 : Must be atleast 167.6 Cms. in height and atleast 86.3 Cms. round the Chest on full expansion, with a chest expansion of atleast 5 Cms. (as per G.O. Ms.No147, Finance (HR-I, Plg & Policy) Dept., dt.06/08/2016).

(ii)Visual Acuity - The Examination for determining the acuteness of vision includes two tests – one for distant and the other for near vision. Each eye will be examined separately.

(b)There shall be no limit for maximum naked eye vision but the naked eye vision of the candidates shall however be recorded by the Medical Board or other medical authority in every case, as it will furnish the basic information in regard to the condition of the eye.

4.1. There will be reservations in direct recruitment in respect of Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes, Physically Challenged Economically Weaker Sections, Women and Meritorious Sports Persons as per Rule 22 and 22 (A) of A.P. State and Subordinate Service Rules. However, Women reservation is not applicable for the post code nos. 04 & 05 as per Departmental Special Rules.

NOTE: The candidates belonging to SC, ST, BC, EWS & PH and who avails upper age relaxation will also be considered for open category vacancies”.

Certificate issued by the Revenue Authorities in the case of Backward Classes. The list of Caste/Tribe/Community is as incorporated in Schedule-I of above Rules. The list is also appended at Annexure –IV. The candidates have to produce proof of the community claimed in their application at all stages of selection along with the certificates relating to Educational Qualifications and local status certificates etc.,. Subsequent claim of change of community will not be entertained.

4.7. There shall be Reservation to Women horizontally to an extent of 33 1/3% in terms of rule 22 -A of APSSS Rules as per G.O. Ms. No. 63, GA (Ser-D) Dept., dated: 17.04.2018.

4.8. The reservation to meritorious sports persons will apply as per G.O.Ms.No.13, GA (Ser-D) Dept., dated: 23.01.2018, G.O.Ms.No.74, Youth, Advancement, Tourism and Culture (Sports) Dept., dated: 09.08.2012, G.O.Ms.No.473, Youth, Advancement, Tourism and Culture (Sports) Dept., dated: 03.12.2018 and G.O.Ms.No.08, Youth, Advancement, Tourism and Culture (Sports) Dept., dated: 23.11.2020.

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ZONE–I : Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram. (SKM, VSP, VZM) ZONE–II : East Godavari, West Godavari and Krishna. (EG, WG, KST)
ZONE–III : Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore. (GNT, PKM, NLR)
ZONE–IV : Chittoor, Cuddapah, Anantapur and Kurnool. (CTR, CDP, ATP, KNL)

For PC. No. 07, 08, 11, 12, 13 State wide Selection and allotment will be Multi-Zone I

PARA -6 DEFINITION OF LOCAL CANDIDATE:

(b) In cases where no minimum educational qualification has been prescribed for recruitment to the post, if he has resided in that local area for a period of not less than four years immediately proceeding the date on which the post is notified for recruitment. Explanations:- For the purpose of the paragraph.

(i) educational institution means a University or any educational institution recognized by the State Government, a University or other competent authority;
(ii) relevant qualifying examination in relation to a post means;
(a)the examination, a pass in which is the minimum educational qualification prescribed for the post;

(2) A candidate for direct recruitment to any post who is not regarded as a local candidate under sub paragraph (1) in relation to any local area shall.

(a) in cases where a minimum educational qualification has been prescribed for recruitment to the post.

(1)such local area where he has resided for a maximum period out of the said period of seven years: or

(2)where the periods of his residence in two or more local areas are equal, such local areas where he has resided last in such equal periods;

6.5. Candidates who migrated from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh between 2nd June, 2014 and 1st June, 2021 as per G.O.Ms.No. 130, General Administration (SPF&MC) Department, dated.29.10.2019 and as per terms laid down in circular memo no.4136/SPF & MC/2015-5, Dated.20.11.2017 of Government of Andhra Pradesh shall obtain the Local Status Certificate from competent authority and produce at the time of verification.

6.6. The composition of Districts in each zone is as hereunder:

For Post Code No. 03:- No person shall be eligible for direct recruitment if he/she is less than 21 years of age and if he / she is more than 30 years of age as on 01/07/2022 as per G.O.Ms.No.120, GA(SER-A) Department, dt:28/09/2022.

For Post Code No.04:-, No person shall be eligible for direct recruitment if he is less than 18 years of age and if he is more than 30 years of age as on 01/07/2022 as per G.O.Ms.No.120, GA(SER-A) Department, dt:28/09/2022.

PARA - 8 HOW TO APPLY:

notification number that he wants to apply. The basic details required for calculation of the fee and age relaxation will be pre-populated from the OTPR data. The applicant has to verify all the details that are displayed. Once the payment form is submitted, the respective details (used for calculation of fee and age relaxation) will not be altered in any stage of application processing. Hence if any details are to be changed, applicant should use the modify OTPR link, modify the details, save it and again click on application payment link.

STEP-III: After checking all the data and ensuring that the data is correct the applicant has to fill application specific data such as Local/Non Local status, white card details etc., which are also used to calculate the fee. Once all the data is filled appropriately, the applicant has to submit the payment form. On successful submission, the payment reference ID is generated and is displayed on the screen. By clicking “OK” the applicant is shown the various payment options where he/she can select any one among them and complete the payment process as given on the screen.

NOTE:

A. The Commission is not responsible, for any omissions made by the applicant in bio-data particulars while submitting the application form online. The applicants are therefore, advised to strictly follow the instructions given in the user guide before submitting the application.

PARA - 9: (a) FEE:

9.1. Applicant must pay Rs. 250/- (Rupees two hundred and fifty only) towards application processing fee and Rs 120/- (Rupees one hundred twenty only) towards examination fee.

exemption from payment of fee and not entitled for claiming any kind of reservation.

PARA-10: SCHEME OF EXAMINATION:-

PARA – 12 RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES RELATED TO QUESTION PAPER, ANSWER KEY AND OTHER MATTERS:

12.1. Invalidation of OMR Answer Sheet:
a. If any applicant fails to bubble or wrongly bubble the Booklet Series in the OMR Answer Sheet, such Answer sheets are invariably invalidated as the answer sheets are valued by Optical Mark Reader. This stipulation is to avoid any sort of human interface in evaluation of the Scripts.

objections with regard to the key / questions they shall have to file the objections within

three days after publication of the key in the prescribed proforma available in the

12.6. In the main examination, the papers of Telugu and English are in qualifying in nature and the marks secured in these papers are not counted for merit. The minimum qualifying marks for Telugu & English for each individual paper is 40 % for OC’s, Sports Persons & EWS, 35 % for B.C’s, 30% for SC / ST / PH. In all other papers the aggregate marks will be taken for counting of minimum qualifying marks as per para 15.4 of this Notification in his / her application, read with G.O. Ms. No. 570, G.A. (Ser.A) Dept., dated 31.12.1997 and G.O. Ms No.158, G.A (Ser.A)Dept., dated 26.12.2018.

12.7. All papers except Telugu & English may be answered in English or Telugu or Urdu chosen by the candidates at the time of filling the online option of medium of writing main examination along with post preferences and zonal preferences (Please see Para 1.6). The candidates are not permitted to write part of the paper in one language and another part of it other language. Once medium is chosen, the candidate has to write his answer in the medium chosen by him/her only. If there is a any deviation from paper to paper or part of the paper the candidature would become invalid. All 05 (Five) papers have to be written in the medium chosen only. And also different papers cannot be written in different languages.

13.1 Vacancies: The recruitment will be made to the vacancies notified only. There shall be no waiting list as per G.O. Ms. No. 81, General Administration (Ser. A) Department, Dated 22/02/1997, G.O.Ms.No.544, General Administration (Ser. A) Department, Dated:04.12.1998 and Rule 6 of APPSC Rules of procedure. In any case, no cognisance will be taken by Commission of any vacancies arising or reported after the completion of the selection and recruitment process or the last date as decided by the Commission as far as this Notification is concerned, and these will be further dealt with as per G.O. & Rule cited above. As per G.O.Ms.No:139 Finance HR (I) Planning Policy Dept., dt:28/07/2016 Rule 7 of APPSC Rules of procedure regarding relinquished vacancies has been deleted.

13.2 The Recruitment will be processed as per this Notification and also as per the Rules and Instructions issued by the Government and also as decided by the Commission from time to time in terms of respective Special Rules/Adhoc Rules governing the Recruitment and P.C.01: G.O. Ms. No. 1066, Rev. (Ser.I) Department , Dt. 26/10/1992, P.C.02 :G.O. Ms. No. 360, Revenue (CT-I) Department, dated 23/04/1994, G.O. Ms. No. 231, Rev. (CT.I) Dept., dt. 10/05/2018, G.O. Ms. No. 203, Rev. (CT.I) Dept., dt. 10/03/2010, P.C.03 :G.O.Ms.No.137, Home (Police-E) Department, dated 1/6/98, P.C.04 :G.O.Ms. No. 316, Home (Pri.A) Dept., Dt. 17/08/1996, P.C.05: G.O.Ms.No.574, Home (Prisons-A) Department, dated 30/09/1991, P.C.06: G.O.Ms.No:27 Finance(ADMN-1) Department,Dt:03/05/2021, P.C.07: G.O. Ms. No. 180, TR&B (TR-I) Dept., Dt. 01/07/1994, P.C.08: G.O. Ms. No. 347 PR&RD (E.VI) ,Department, dt. 21/11/2001, G.O. Ms. No. 330, PR & RD (E.VII-2) Department, dt. 28/10/2004, G.O. Ms. No. 150 PR&RD (E.VI) Department, dt. 29/04/2010, P.C.9: G.O.Ms.No.525, Revenue (Registration-1)Department, dated 21/05/2009, P.C.10: G.O. Ms. No. 123, Social Welfare (TW.SER.I-2) Dept., Dt. 23/12/1999, G.O. Ms. No. 69, Social Welfare (TW.SER.I-2) Dept., Dt. 27/09/2010, P.C.11: G.O. Ms. No. 35, Backward Classes Welfare (P2) Dept., dt. 09/07/1996, P.C.12: G.O. Ms. No. 109, Housing, Municipal Administration and Urban Development (L1) (M.A)Dept., dt. 17/02/1990, G.O.Ms.No:280,Municipal Admn & Urban Development (L2) Department, , Dt:13/06/2002, P.C.13: G.O. Ms. No. 458, HM & FW (C2) Dept., dt. 14/10/1998, G.O. Ms. No. 129, HM & FW (C2) Dept., dt. 25/06/2009, P.C.14: G.O. Ms. No. 262, F&A (Coop.II) Dept., Dt. 18/04/1990, P.C.15: G.O. Ms. No. 113, Finance (Admn.-II) Dept., dt. 20/05/2014, G.O. Ms. No. 187, Finance (Admn.-III) Dept., dt. 27/11/2017, G.O. M. No. 297, WD.CW & Disabled Welfare (DW) Dept., dt. 09/10/2006, G.O.Ms.No:263,G.A.(Ser.A)Department,Dt:16/07/1998 and Special Rules / Adhoc Rules Governing the recruitment and other related GOs, Rules etc., are applicable.

posts shall be filled duly following the rule of reservation”. This clause is applicable for post codes PC. No.15 only. The post codes P.C No. 01 to 14 which is a State level post covered under GSR 526-E of G.O. Ms. No. 675, Dated: 20/10/1975.

Educational Qualification. The onus, in case of doubt, of Proof of recognition by the D.E.C. that their Degrees / Universities have been recognised, rests with the candidate. Candidates may also refer G.O.R.T.No.143, Higher Education (EC) Dept., Dated: 11.07.2018 and the Supreme Court judgment CA Nos.17869 -17870/2017 dated: 03.11.2017 in this connection.

1. Open competition, Sports Persons, Ex-Service men & EWS 40%
2. Backward Class 35%
3. SCs, STs & PHs 30%
N.B.: Mere securing of minimum qualifying marks does not confer any right to the candidate for being considered to the selection.

15.5. The claims of members of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections and Women as the case may be, shall also be considered for the vacancies earmarked for open competition, which shall be filled on the basis of open competition. In respect of social reservations viz., Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, the vertical reservation will be applicable and the number of appointments reserved for that category shall in no way be affected during the period the reservation for that category is in force.

15.10. ANSWER KEY:Answer key would be published on the website.

in such manner or by such action as to violate or likely to violate the fair practices followed and ensured by the Commission will be sufficient cause for rendering such questionable means as ground for debarment and penal consequences as per law and rules as per decision of the Commission.

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equipment or programmable device or storage media like pen drive, smart watches etc., or camera or blue tooth devices or any other equipment or related accessories either in working or switched off mode capable of being used as a communication device during the examination is strictly prohibited. Any infringement of these instructions shall entail disciplinary action including ban from future examinations.

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H.Arun Kumar,I.A.S.

SECRETARY

I. CARRY FORWARD (CF) VACANCIES

3.The vacancies shown under the ** OC (G) category under Post Code No. 13 (OC (G)) meant for meritorious sports person. In the event of non-availability of eligible sports person, the