UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

UPSC UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Posted On: 25 FEB 2026 11:09AM by PIB Delhi On the basis of the result of the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, 2025 held by the Union Public Service Commission from 16th November 2025 to 23rd November 2025, the candidates with the Roll Numbers, as given below, have qualified for the Personality Test (Interview) for Indian Forest Service Examination, 2025.

2. Candidature of these candidates is provisional subject to their being found eligible in all respects. The candidates will be required to produce the original certificates in support of their eligibility/reservation claims viz. age, educational qualifications, community, economically weaker section, Person with Benchmark Disability (PwBD) and other documents such as TA Form etc. at the time of their Personality Test (Interview). They are, therefore, advised to keep the said documents ready with them. The candidates seeking reservation/relaxation benefits available for SC/ST/OBC/EWS/PwBD/Ex-servicemen etc., must also produce original certificate(s) issued by the closing date of the application of the Indian Forest Service Examination, 2025 through Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2025 i.e. 21.02.2025.

3. Dates of Personality Tests (Interviews) of these candidates will be notified in due course, which will be held in the Office of the Union Public Service Commission at Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi-110069. The schedule of the Personality Test (Interview) and e-Summon Letter will be made available in due course, which may be downloaded from the Commission’s Website https://www.upsc.go v.in & https://upsconline.gov.in. The candidates, who may not be able to download their e-Summon Letters, should immediately contact the office of the Commission through letter/e-mail or phone on Phone Nos. 011-23385271, 011-23381125, or Fax No. 011-23387310, 011-23384472 or by email on (soexam9- upsc[at]gov[dot]in). No separate paper Summon Letters will be issued for the Personality Tests

(Interviews) by the Commission.

4. No request for change in the date and time of the Personality Test (Interview) intimated to the candidates will ordinarily be entertained.

5.1 (a) All the candidates, who qualified for the Personality Test (Interview), are mandatorily required to fill/update the requisite field(s) viz. details of educational qualification status (whether appearing/appeared) along with proof of passing the requisite qualifying Examination, and upload the relevant document as proof of their claim, failing which his/her candidature shall stand cancelled and no correspondence will be entertained by the Commission in this regard. Further, no e-summon letter will be issued to such candidates.

5.1(b) In addition to the above para 5.1(a), the candidates (wherever applicable) are required to update the Correspondence/Permanent Postal Address, Higher Educational Qualification, Achievement in different fields (if any), Employment Details/Service Experience, Details of the Service allocated on the basis of earlier/previous Indian Forest Service Examinations (if any), Marital status, PwBD Recommendation details in past, Parental Details, Debarment information, Earlier Examination details, Attempts Information, OBC/EWS Annexure (wherever applicable), socio-economic questionnaire, whichever is applicable and submit the same.5.1(c) Candidates who have uploaded the required documents/information earlier and have no information to update/fill in, are also required to login and finally submit after verifying the details so as to generate the e-summon letter for the Personality Test.

5.1(d) The candidates are advised to regularly visit the Commission’s website with regard to further updates.

Regarding this, following provisions have been made in the Indian Forest Service Examination, 2025

Rules:

B.3 The Commission shall also provide a window of 15 (Fifteen) days from the date of declaration of result of written part of Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination to the candidates qualified for Personality Test/Interview. The candidates as per Note I below Rule 7 of IFSE, 2025 shall be required to update their details/educational qualification status (whether appearing/appeared) and to produce/upload the proof of passing of the requisite qualifying examination at the specified module/portal, failing which such candidates will not be allowed to appear in the Personality Test/Interview and his/her candidature will be liable to be cancelled.

Note: In this period, all the candidates qualified for Personality Test shall also be provided an option to update Correspondence/ Permanent Postal Address, Higher Educational Qualification, Achievement in different fields (if any), Employment Details/Service Experience, details of the Service allocated on the basis of earlier/previous Indian Forest Service Examinations (if any) and Cadre Preferences for the current examination. The details updated in this window will be treated as final and no request for any change in these fields received through any other mode will be entertained.

B.4 (i) A candidate shall be required to indicate, as and when asked for by the Commission, and in the manner prescribed by it, his/her choice in the order of preference from amongst the various State Cadres including his/her ‘Home State’.

(ii) The cadre allotment to candidates appointed to Indian Forest Service will be governed by the policy of cadre allotment in force at the time of allotment of cadre. Due consideration will be given at the time of making allocation on the results of the examination to the preferences expressed by a candidate for various cadres.

(iii) No change in preference for Cadre once submitted by a candidate would be permitted.

5.2 The details in respect of Cadre Preference will be sought in due course from the candidates who are qualified to appear in the Personality Test (Interview) of IFSE-2025. The candidates are, therefore, advised to visit the Commission’s website frequently.

5.3 On successfully submission of the requisite field(s)/information in OAF (as mentioned in Para 5.1), a unique reference number will be generated and furnished to the candidates through email/SMS at their registered email ID/mobile for their acknowledgment.

5.4 Therefore, in accordance with the aforesaid provisions of the Rules of the Examination, all these candidates have to fill up/update and submit the requisite details ONLINE only, which will be available on the Website of the Union Public Service Commission (https://upsconline.gov.in) during the period from 27th February, 2026 to 13th March, 2026 till 6:00 P.M., failing which no further correspondence will be entertained by the Commission in this regard.

6. No request for any type of change/modification of information given in Online Application Form (OAF) will be entertained by the Commission. However, wherever necessary, the candidates are advised to notify changes in their address/contact details only, if any, to the Commission immediately through letter, email(soexam9-upsc[at]gov[dot]in) or Fax at numbers indicated in Paragraph 3 within 7 days of publishing this Press Note.

7. The marks sheets of all the candidates will be uploaded on the Commission’s Website within 15 days from the date of publication of the final result [after conducting Personality Tests (Interview)] and will remain available on the Website for a period of 30 days.

8. The result of the petitioner candidate has been kept in sealed cover in compliance of the Hon’ble Gujarat High Court’s interim order dated 15.10.2025 in SCA No. 12450/2025.

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