Section 11: Nationality

11. Nationality.-A candidate for appointment to the service must be- (a) a citizen of India, or (b) a subject of Nepal, or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia with the intention to permanently settling in India: Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government in the Department of Home Affairs and Justice after proper verification. * Substituted for “Reservation of vacancies for woman candidates.-Reservation of vacancies for woman candidates shall be 30 category wise in direct recruitment out of which five percent shall be for widow candidates. In the event of non-availability of the eligible and suitable widow candidates in a particular year, the vacancies so reserved for widow candidates shall be filled by other women candidates and in the event of non-availability of eligible and suitable women candidates, the vacancies so reserved for them shall be filled up by male candidates and such of the vacancies shall not be carried forward to the subsequent recruitment year and the reservation shall be treated as horizontal reservation i.e. the reservation of woman candidates shall be adjusted proportionately in the respective category to which the woman candidates belong." vide Notification No.F.7(2)DOP/A-II/88Pt-I dated 22.12.2015.