Friday, 10 February 2017

How to clear/Ace CAPF(central armed police forces), Assistant commandants(ACs) exam conducted by UPSC?

Let us know about the ACs(Assistant commandant) post details:

They are also known as DySP/ACPs(state police equivalent) in central armed police forces(CRPF,CISF,ITBP,BSF, & SSB). they are group A gazetted officers selected by UPSC every year for these five central armed police forces which are headed by IPS officers(Director generals). these ACs can climb up to the rank of IG. see the following ranks.


Roles played by ACs:
Apart from performing various decision making and supervisory functions, similar to any other Group ‘A’ service, the executive officers of the CAPF perform several other managerial functions peculiar to the service, besides leading the troops in the field. 

Roles played by different CAPFs:

1. CRPF:

  • Assist the states and UTs in maintaining law and order(Especially in case of riots)
  • VIP security, security to parliament, and some critical infrastructure
  • Election duties
  • Operating in Naxal hit areas and Insurgency areas of the country
  • United nations peace keeping etc
2. BSF

  •  primary role is manning indo-pak and indo- Bangladesh border.
3. ITBP
         safeguard Indo- China border.

4. SSB
      Indo- Bhutan and Indo- Nepal border guarding.

5. CISF
      Providing  security to some of the India's critical assets like PSUs, Metro, Airport, Nuclear power plants etc

apart form these roles they also play major roles in disaster management.


 Recruitment process of Assistant commandant(Directly appointed by UPSC) :

1. Stage 1: Written exam:
       In this stage there are two papers. paper 1, is a objective type test containing 125 questions(250 marks) of 2 hour duration(General studies like civil services paper 1 and nearly 20 questions of mental ability), paper 2 is a descriptive one of  hours duration carrying 200 marks(essay type questions, and general English).

refer previous year questions to get exact idea from http://www.upsc.gov.in/

2.Stage 2: Physical and Medical test

Once you clear the written test, you will be called for this round after around one  month of declaring the result.  you have to clear all the following tests.
  • 100 meter running: in 16 seconds (18 sec for female)
  • 800 meter running : 3 min 45 seconds (4 min 45 sec for female)
  • Long jump: 3.5 meter (3 chances) (3 meter for female)
  • Shot put: 7.26 Kg , 4.5 meter .. only one chance (NA for female)
after this, next days there will be Medical test for qualified candidates. please see to it that you satisfy all the criteria mentioned by UPSC in its notifications.

You can have glance about the syllabus and different medical standards in the UPSC notification 2016 here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Q5TeAVaIg3eDJHX2pTSi10ZTg/view?usp=drivesdk

3. stage 3 : Interview (150 marks)  by UPSC, New Delhi.



after all these rounds final list will be released by combining all the marks(250+200+150).
they will allocate different services based on your preferences.

you can read my UPSC interview transcript here: http://inspiringanil.blogspot.in/2017/02/upsc-interview-transcript-capf-2016.html 

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