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Bsf Constable Tradesman Apply Online 2022
Information : Online applications are invited from MALE & FEMALE Indian Citizens for filling up 2788 vacancies (2651 Vacancies for MALE candidates and 137 Vacancies for FEMALE candidates) for the post of Constable (Tradesman) Exam 2021-22 in Border Security Force in the pay Matrix Level-3, Pay scale Rs.21,700-69,100.
EXAMINATION FEE AND MODE OF PAYMENT
(a) Candidates belonging to UR/General, EWS category or OBC category applying for recruitment to the posts shall have to deposit Rs. 100/- (One Hundred) only as examination fee through following mode :-
(i) Net banking of any Bank.
(ii) Credit/Debit Card of any Bank.
(iii) Nearest authorised Common Service Centre.
(b) Women candidates and candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste,Scheduled Tribes, BSF serving personnel and Ex-Servicemen are exempted from payment of examination fee.
(c) Payment of examination fee will be accepted only through Online mode.
(d) Fee once paid will not be refunded under any circumstances.
(e) In case of non-receipt of examination fee from the candidates of nonexempted categories, their form will not be accepted.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA/CONDITIONS
Education Qualification :- Matriculation or equivalent from a recognized University or Board with:-
(i) Two years work experience in respective trades;
(OR)
(ii) One year certificate course from Industrial Training Institute/Vocational Institute with at least one year experience in the trade;
(OR)
(iii) Two years Diploma from Industrial Training Institute in the trade or similar trade.
METHOD OF SELECTION
The selection method will be as under:-
(A) FIRST PHASE OF EXAMINATION Candidates whose online application forms are found to be in order will be called to appear in PST/PET.
(a) Physical Standard Test (PST) and Physical Efficiency Test (PET):-
(i) At the very beginning of the recruitment process, candidates will be asked to go through the height bar and thereby, candidates with lesser height will get eliminated and will not be allowed to participate in further process of recruitment.
(ii) Those candidates who qualify the height bar will be subject to Physical Efficiency Test (PET) which will be as under:- 5000 metre RACE completed within 24 minutes.
(iii) Those candidate(s) who qualify in PET will be subject to bio-matric identification & screening of testimonials/document by the Board. The candidates who do not fulfill the laid down physical standards will be
eliminated from recruitment process. However, elimination on grounds of weight will be done at the time of medical examination only.
(iv) Woman candidate, who as a result of tests is found to be pregnant of 12 weeks standing or over, shall be declared temporarily unfit and her appointment held in abeyance until the confinement is over. The vacancy against which a women candidate was selected should be kept reserved for her. She should be re-examined for PET six weeks after the date of confinement, subject to the production of the medical certificate of fitness from a registered medical practitioner.
(v) Original documents/testimonials of candidates will be checked by the Board of Officers and only eligible candidates will be go to the next stage.
(vi) Candidates are advised to refrain themselves from consuming/intaking performance enhancing drugs/injections during PET. Candidates are advised to keep in mind their own physical stamina and endurance level. BSF will not be responsible for any untoward incident occurring during PET as a consequence of consumption of performance enhancing drugs/injections or other reasons.
Note-I : No physical efficiency test will be held for Ex-servicemen.
Note-II : PET will be only qualifying in nature and it will not carry any marks.
(b) TRADE TEST :-
The candidates who qualify in the PST, PET & Documentation will be
put through the respective Trade Test. Each candidate will be allowed to
appear for one trade test only. The Trade test will be qualifying in
nature and it will not carry any marks. The requisite skill/qualification for
each trade are as under
(B) SECOND PHASE OF EXAMINATION
Written Examination for 100 marks :-
(i) Successful candidate in the first phase examination i.e. PST, PET, Documentation and Trade Test will be called to appear in second phase of examination i.e. Written Examination which will be communicated to the candidates through E-Mail address/ SMS for call letters through online.
(ii) The Written Examination will be of 100 marks containing 100 questions (qualifying marks 35% for General Category/EWS & ExServicemen and 33% for SC/ST/OBC) will consist of only OMR based objective type multiple choice questions to be answered using a Blue or Black ball point pen only.
(iii) While all the question papers in an examination may contain the same set of questions, the question papers may be in different series, which will have the questions in different order.
(iv) The question paper will consist of one objective type paper containing 100 questions carrying 100 marks with the following composition.
(C) THIRD PHASE EXAMINATION
(a) Detailed Medical Examination:-
(i) The candidates who qualify all the above stages i.e. PST, PET, Documentation, Trade Test and Written test will put through Detailed Medical Examination (DME) which will be carried out by Medical Board of Officers to assess their physical & medical fitness.
(ii) The medical examination of candidates will be carried out as per revised uniform medical guidelines issued by MHA vide UO No. A.VI1/2014-Rectt(SSB) dated 20.05.2015 as amended from time to time.
(iii) Candidates have to qualify all the stages of the third phase examination one by one. Any candidate not qualified any of the stage of examination, he/she will be eliminated from the recruitment process.
(iv) Candidates having Tattoos will be considered as per following instructions:-
(a) Content: Being a secular country, the religious sentiments of our countrymen are to be respected and thus, tattoos depicting religious symbol or figures and the name as followed in Indian Army are to be permitted.
(b) Location: Tattoos marked on traditional sites of the body like inner aspect of forearm but only left forearm, being non saluting limb or dorsum of the hands are to be allowed.
(c) Size: Size must be less than ¼ of the particular part (Elbow or Hand) of the body.
(d) In case a candidate has undergone removal of tattoo(s) prior to appearing for recruitment process and the same has faded substantially, this will be treated as a “scar” and not a tattoo. Such candidates will be permitted to undergo the entire selection process with the approval of Presiding Officer of the recruitment Board. Further, the scar resulting due to removal of tattoo will be reviewed by the Medical Board of Officer during Detailed Medical Examination”.
(v) Candidates will be called for medical examination in order of merit. Such candidates will be called till such time all vacancies in their respective categories are filled.
(vi) For female candidates only : Any such female candidates who during the medical examination is found to be pregnant of twelve weeks or above, she shall be declared temporarily unfit and her appointment will be held in abeyance until the confinement is over.
(b) Review Medical Examination :-
(i) The candidates who are declared Unfit in Detailed Medical Examination (DME) and not satisfied with the findings of the Initial Medical Examination, can submit their appeal. RME of candidates will be conducted in continuation of DME preferably on the next day of DME according to MHA(Police-II Division) OM No.E.32012/
ADG(Med)/DME & RME/DA-1/2020(Part File)/1166 dated 31st May‟2021 containing “Revised uniform Guidelines for Review Medical Examination in central armed police forces and Assam Rifles for GOs & NGOs”.
(ii) All candidates declared unfit during Detailed Medical Examination (DME) will be allowed to undergo Review Medical Examination (RME), provided they give their written consent by appending their signature on the intimation indicating the reasons for being unfit. The appeals for Review Medical Examination (RME) will be preferred in the name of Appellate authority of concerned Recruiting Agency (RA).
(iii) The consent in prescribed proforma for RME duly signed by the candidate should be submitted within 24 hours after he/she is informed of his/her unfitness in DME.
(iv) Recruiting Agencies (RA) will endeavor to keep the venue for RME in the vicinity of a Composite Hospital of CAPFs or Government Medical College/Hospitals, for facilitating specialist opinion/ investigations etc, if required.
(v) The decision of RME board will be final. No appeal will be entertained against the findings of Review Medical Examination.
FINAL MERIT LIST
(i) Post wise and category wise final merit list will be drawn separately in respect of each State/UT on the basis of marks secured by the candidates in the Written Examination.
(ii) SC/ST/OBC candidates who are qualified on their own merit, without relaxed standards along with candidates belonging to UR candidates, will not be adjusted against the reserved vacancies. Such candidates will be accommodated against the Un-Reserved (UR) vacancies as per their position in the overall merit list. The reserved vacancies will be filled up separately from amongst eligible SC, ST and OBC candidates.
(iii) No waiting list will be kept/maintained in anticipation of vacancies.
(v) The list of finally selected candidates will be published on BSF website
RESOLUTION OF TIE CASES :-
In case of tie in marks, the candidate older in age will be placed higher in the
merit list. If the candidates of similar date of birth have obtained equal number of
marks, the candidates whose name comes first in the alphabetic order (English) will
be kept higher in the merit list.
WARDS OF SERVING BSF PERSONNEL
Wards of BSF serving personnel may apply either from their Home State or from the State where his or her father/mother is posted/deployed at the time of recruitment. However, they will be considered against vacancies of domiciled Home State only. To avail this concession, they have to submit certificate in the format prescribed in Annexure – VI. However, they will not be entitled to avail any relaxation of the State from which they are appearing if they are not actually domiciled in that State. Eligibility/relaxation of such candidates will be considered as applicable to them as per their domiciled State.
EXPERIENCE CERTIFICATE
The post of Constable (Tradesmen) is purely skill-based. Hence, candidates are required to submit necessary certificates as a proof of their expertise or proficiency in the applied trade.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
(i). Merely qualifying all the prescribed tests/events for recruitment of CT(TM) does not confer the right of selection to the candidates but they should have to stand in merit keeping in view the available vacancies of that particular post/trade.
(ii). In case a candidate is found unfit/ineligible for service on any ground after his selection/appointment, his service will be terminated without assigning any reason.
(iii). Candidates should come duly prepared for 3-4 days stay under their own arrangements at the Recruitment Centres. No TA/DA will be admissible for the journey and stay. Mobile Phone and Calculator are strictly prohibited in the recruitment venue.
(iv). BSF reserves the right to make changes or cancel or postpone the recruitment without assigning any reason.
(v). BSF strives to recruit fit committed, sincere and best candidates with transparency and impartiality. Hence candidates are advised to be “BEWARE OF TOUTS”. If anyone demands money or promise recruitment, inform the Presiding Officer of recruitment board immediately.
(vi) Caste certificate issued other than domicile state of candidate will not be considered. Both certificate (caste and domicile) should be issued by same State/UT. If Caste certificate is to be submitted by the candidate from other than domicile then such candidate will be treated as General category.
(vii) Important Note :- Relaxation of reserved categories i.e SC/ST/OBC will only be given in those circumstances where vacancies in these reserved categories are available in the applied trade/post. If vacancies in reserved categories (SC/ST/OBC) are not available in the trade/post and candidate is meeting criteria of UR category candidate, then, he/she will be treated as „Un-Reserved‟ (UR) Category candidate. On the other hand, if, vacancies of reserved vacancies (SC/ST/OBC) are not available and candidate doesn‟t fulfill the criteria of Un-Reserved Category‟ candidate, candidature of such candidates will be rejected at any stage. Any further notification in regard to this recruitment will be made in the BSF website only. Candidates are advised to visit this website regularly.