Haryana Government has amended the Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) Rules, 2008 and the new rules would be called as the Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) Amendment Rules, 2016.
A spokesman of Personnel Department said that a notification to this effect has been issued by the Department.
He said that the examination hereinafter called the competitive examination for the post of Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) and Allied Services shall be held at any place in Haryana each year for the purpose of selection by competition of as many candidates for the Service as the Government may determine.
While referring to the examination, he said that the Preliminary Examination would consist of 200 marks (for screening only), main written examination will be of 600 marks and Personality Test of 75 marks.
He said that the preliminary examination would comprise two papers (objective type and multiple choice) and would be of total 200 marks. Paper-I General Studies (As per existing and notified syllabus) and Paper-II: Civil Services Aptitude Test would be of 100 marks each. Civil Services Aptitude Test would include comprehension, interpersonal skills including communication skills, logical reasoning and analytical ability, decision making and problem solving, general mental ability, basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, order of magnitude, etc-Class X level), data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, date sufficiency etc.- Class X-level).
Both the question papers would be of objective type (multiple choice) questions and both the question papers would be set bilingual that is in English and in Hindi. Each paper would be of two hours duration and for each wrong answer, one fourth (0.25) mark would be deducted. The spokesman said that the main written examination would comprise of five papers of total 600 marks.
He said that the notice of the date fixed for examination would be published in the Haryana Government Gazette. If the total marks of Main Written Examination and Personality Test and Viva-Voca obtained by two or more candidates are equal, the candidate securing higher marks in the compulsory papers of main written examination would be considered higher in merit.