HIMACHAL PRADESH ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-2020
Important instructions For HPAS 2021 Examination :
1. The Candidates must read instructions carefully, which are available on website of the Commission before applying for the post(s)
concerned.
2. The Candidates must ensure their eligibility in respect of category, experience, age and essential qualification(s) etc. as mentioned in the
advertisement by uploading copies of certificates of essential qualification, Matriculation Certificate as age proof, Category Certificate and
Experience Certificate (where required) to avoid rejection of their candidature after the closing date.
3. The benefit of reservation for various post(s) will be admissible only to the candidates, who are bonafide residents of Himachal Pradesh in
respect of categories, viz. Scheduled Caste (S.C.), Scheduled Tribe (S.T.), Other Backward Classes (O.B.C.), Economically Weaker Section
(E.W.S.), Ex. Servicemen, Ward of Ex. Servicemen, Ward of Freedom Fighter (W.F.F.) and Persons with Disabilities (Loco motor
Disabled/Visually Impaired/Hearing Impaired)etc.
4. The reserved Category Candidates belonging to other States will be treated as GENERAL CATEGORY CANDIDATES and benefit of
reservation and fee concession will not be admissible to such candidates.
5. The Candidates should possess requisite essential qualification(s) prescribed for the post(s) for which he/she wants to apply as detailed in
Eligibility Criteria of advertisement.
6. Number of Post(s) is/are tentative and may increase or decrease from time to time.
7. No in service (regular service) candidate will be interviewed unless he/she produce N.O.C. from concerned employer.
8. The eligibility of the Candidates applying for the post(s) reserved for Ex. Servicemen of H.P. for HPAS and H.P. Police Service will be
decided as per erstwhile Demobilized Indian Armed Forces Personnel (Reservation of Vacancies in the H.P. Administrative Service Rule
1974) notified by the Government of H.P. (in the Department of Personnel) vide Notification No. 8-159/73-DP(APPTT.I) dated 16-08-1974
and further amended/repealed by Notification No. Per (A-IV)-A(3)-1/2018 dated 25-02-2020 and as per these rules the candidates
belonging to Ex. Servicemen shall not be permitted to compete more than three times for HPAS and H.P. Police Service. For other
posts reserved for Ex. Servicemen Candidates (except HPAS and HPPS) the eligibility will be decided in accordance with the Demobilized
Armed Forces Personnel (Reservation of vacancies in Himachal State Non-Technical Services) Rules, 1972 amended from time to time
and there shall be no limit to avail number of chances.
9. Examination Fee once paid will not be refunded.
10. Disputes, if any, Shall be subject to Court jurisdiction at Shimla.
11.The desirous & eligible Candidates may visit the Official Website of the Commission (http://www.hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc) and click on the
link “Apply Online” on the Home Page.
The Candidate will register and create his/her profile on ‘One Time Registration’ and after logging into his/her account OTR, the list of
advertisements will be displayed to the candidate on dashboard. Candidate will apply for a particular post through portal. The application of
the candidate will be submitted only after uploading of requisite documents as per advertisement. The Candidate shall specify in his/her
Online Recruitment Application form the optional subject he/she desires to take.
Before submission of application the candidate will be shown the preview of uploaded documents and he/she shall give an
undertaking/declaration that:
“It is certified that I have checked the preview of all the requisite uploaded documents and I am satisfied that documents are legible,
readable and true. That I shall not object to rejection of my candidature based on the sole reason of uploaded documents being non
readable/poor quality of scanning”.
No further opportunity will be given to the candidate for submission of any document after the submission of Online Recruitment
Application. Online Recruitment Application once submitted shall not be allowed any change.
12. No representation/Correspondence will be entertained against final rejection of candidature.
Note: The number of vacancy(s) in the service/post(s) if received from the Govt. upto closing date of Online Recruitment Application shall be included for the purpose of selection of candidates on the basis of aforesaid examination. All the candidates are requested to apply under their respective category(s) as any above post of any reserved category can be included to be filled up on the basis of H.P.A.S. Combined Competitive Examination-2020. The number of vacancies and reservation of post(s) is liable to be altered without any notice.
List of Documents to be uploaded on the OTRS portal by the candidate:-
(i) Matriculation certificate for age proof.
(ii) Bachelor Degree certificates along with Marks Sheets of all years/Consolidated mark sheet in support of Educational
Qualifications i.e. Graduation.
(iii) Category certificate(s) in support of their eligibility, if any, viz., S.C., S.T ., O.B.C., E.W .S., Ex-Servicemen, Ward of Ex.
Servicemen, WFF and Persons with disabilities etc. All these certificates along with undertaking wherever required, should be on
Performa prescribed by the Government of H.P. from time to time.
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Certificates should be in accordance with the instructions of
the Govt. issued vide letter No. PER (AP)-C-F(10)-4/2010 dated 5th August, 2019.
(iv) Bonafide Himachali Certificate in case of reserved category candidates.
(v) Candidates applying under EWSs category will have to submit either ‘Income & Asset Certificate’ or valid BPL Certificate countersigned by B.D.O. alongwith non-SC/ST/OBC certificate issued by the competent authority on the format prescribed by H.P. Government vide letter No. PER (AP)-C-B(12)-1/2019 dated 11th June, 2019.
(vi) The candidates belonging to Ex-Servicemen of Himachal Pradesh will have to furnish Discharge Certificate and full detail in respect of their P.P.O. No., Rank and NOC with date of retirement from the Defence Services to claim the benefit of reservation for the category of Ex-Serviceman of Himachal Pradesh and they will also have to upload an undertaking regarding number of chances availed by them earlier for the posts reserved for Ex. Servicemen.
Post Details for HPAS 2021:
Eligibility Conditions for HPAS Examination:
1. A candidate must be a citizen of India.
2. Minimum Educational Qualifications
a) A candidate must possess a Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent from a recognized University.
b) A candidate, who has appeared at an examination the passing of which would render him eligible to appear at this examination but has not
been informed of result, may apply for admission to the examination. A candidate, who intends to appear at such a qualifying examination,
may also apply, provided the qualifying examination is completed before the commencement of this examination. Such candidates will be
admitted to the examination, if otherwise eligible, but the admission would be deemed to be provisional and subject to cancellation, if they
do not produce proof of having passed the examination as soon as passed and in any case not later than two months after the commencement
of this examination.
c) Candidates who have passed the final professional M.B.B.S. or any other Medical Examination equivalent thereto, but have not completed
their internship by the time of submission of their applications for the HAS etc. examination will be provisionally admitted to the
examination provided they submit along with their applications a copy of certificate from the University/ Institutions that they had passed
the requisite final professional medical examination. In such cases, the candidates will be required to produce at the time of their Personality
Test original degree or a certificate from the concerned competent authority of the University / Institution that they had completed all
requirement (including completion of internship) for the award of degree
Essential Qualification for HPAS :
Knowledge of customs, manners and dialects of Himachal Pradesh and suitability for appointment in the peculiar conditions prevailing in the Pradesh is a desirable qualification.
Age Limits For HPAS :
(a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 35 years on the 01-01-2021, meaning thereby that
candidates born on or after 02-01-2000 are underage whereas applicants born on or before 01-01-1986 are overage.
(b) Provided that the upper age limit is relaxable by five years for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes/ Other
Backward Classes / Persons with disabilities and Children/Grand Children of Freedom Fighters of Himachal Pradesh as declared by the
Govt. from time to time.
(c) Age relaxation is also available to Ex-servicemen candidates of H.P. for the post of Himachal Pradesh Administrative Service
(HPAS) and Himachal Pradesh Police Service of H.P. as per provisions of erstwhile Demobilized Indian Armed Forces Personnel
(Reservation of Vacancies in the H.P.
Clarification For HPAS :
a) Five years relaxation in upper age limit is admissible only to the bonafide S.C. of H.P. / S.T . of H.P. / O.B.C. of H.P. /W .F.F. of
H.P. / Persons with disabilities of Himachal Pradesh. For H.P. Govt. employees and Ex-Servicemen of H.P.; age relaxation is as
per Government’s instructions issued from time to time and as mentioned in detail under title Age Limits. The age relaxation
for bonafide S.C. of H.P. / S.T . of H.P. / O.B.C. of H.P. /W .F.F. of H.P. / Persons with disabilities of Himachal Pradesh/ Ex.
Servicemen of H.P. is available only if there is a post reserved for these categories.
b) Age of a candidate shall be reckoned as on 01.01.2021.
Examination Stations For HPAS 2021:
BILASPUR, CHAMBA, HAMIRPUR, KANGRA, DHARAMSHALA, PALAMPUR, MANDI, SHIMLA, NAHAN, SOLAN, UNA, SUNDERNAGAR
HPAS How to apply :
Detailed instructions for filling up Online Recruitment Applications (ORA) are available on “http://www.hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc” website of the
Commission.
a) Desirous/ eligible candidates must have to apply online through official website of the Commission i.e. http://www.hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc.
Applications received through any other mode would not be accepted and will be rejected straightway.
b) The candidates should exercise due care while entering their Mobile Numbers and e-mail IDs in the Online Recruitment
Applications (ORA) for immediate intimation with regard to their application.
c) The desirous & eligible candidate may visit the official website of the Commission (http://www.hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc) and click on the link
“Apply Online” on the Home Page. The candidate will register and create his/ her profile on ‘One Time Registration’ and after logging into
his/ her account in OTR. the list of advertisements will be displayed to the candidate on dashboard. “It is certified that I have checked the preview of all the requisite uploaded documents and I am satisfied that documents are legible,
readable and true. That I shall not object to rejection of my candidature based on the sole reason of uploaded documents being non
readable/ poor quality of scanning.”
d) No representation / correspondence will be entertained against final rejection of candidature.
Examination Fees For HAS 2021 :
{including General Physically Disabled, i.e. Orthopedically disabled, Deaf & Dumb,
Hearing impaired/ Economically Weaker Section (EWS)/ W.F.F. of HP/ ExServicemen of HP relieved from Defence Services on their own request before
completion of normal tenure, General wards of Ex-SM of H.P.,i.e. Dependent sons
of Ex-SM of H.P.} = RS 400/-
(including reserved category(s) candidates of other states) = RS 400/-
3. S.C. of H.P. /S.T. of H.P. /O.B.C. of H.P./ EWS (Covered under BPL)/(including S.C.
/S.T. /O.B.C. Ex.-Servicemen of H.P. relieved from Defence Services on their own
requests before completion of normal tenure and SC/ ST/ OBC wards of Ex-SM of
H.P., i.e. Dependent sons of Ex-SM of H.P.) = RS 100/-
4. Ex-Servicemen of H.P. (Ex-Servicemen, who are relieved from Defence Services
after completion of normal tenure)/ Blind/Visually Impaired of H.P./Female
Candidates. = No Fee
Syllabus For HPAS 2021:
A. Preliminary examination:
Initially, Preliminary examination consisting of 02 papers based on objective type (multiple choices) questions on the following pattern
will be held.
Paper-I General Studies (Code No.01): This paper shall be of 200 marks and there shall be 100 objective type (Multiple choices) questions.
History, geography, political, art & culture and socio economic development of Himachal Pradesh.
Currents events of national and international importance.
History of India and Indian national movement.
Indian and World Geography-physical, social, economic geography of India and the world.
Indian polity and governance –Constitution, political system, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights issues, etc.
Economic and social development – sustainable development poverty, inclusion, demographics, social sector initiatives, etc.
General issues on environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate Change – that do not require subject specialization.
General Science
Paper-II Aptitude Test (Code No.02): This paper shall be of 200 marks and in this paper there shall be 100 objective type(Multiple choices) questions.
Interpersonal skills including communication skills
Logical reasoning and analytical ability
Decision making and problem solving
General mental ability
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude etc. (Class X level), Data interpretation
(charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level).
English Language comprehension skills (Class X level).
This was the syllabus For HAS Mains Examination .
This preliminary examination will consist of two objective type papers (multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks in the subjects of General Studies and Aptitude Test. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only:
After HAS 2021 Pre Examination : the marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about 20 times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year through this examination. Only those candidates who have been declared by the Commission to have qualified the preliminary examination will be eligible for admission to the main examination corresponding to the said Preliminary Examination provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Main Examination.
Provided that Aptitude Test (Paper-II) of the Preliminary Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33% and, therefore, marks obtained in this paper shall not be counted for determining the merit of the candidates to be drawn exclusively on the basis of marks obtained in General Studies (Paper-I) of the Preliminary Examination for their admission to the Main Examination.
Note: There will be penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the objective type question papers.
i. There are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one third of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty.
ii. If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question. iii. If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
The duration of Papers No. I and II (General Studies and Aptitude Test) will be two hours each.”
B. Main Written Examination:- i. The candidates declared qualified in the Preliminary examination will have to submit application for Main Examination through online/offline mode as the case may be.
ii. The number of candidates to be called for Main written examination will be about 20 times of the total number of vacancies to be filled in on the basis of aforementioned examination.
Personality Test For HAS 2021 :-
The number of candidates to be called for viva-voce test after the Main written examination by the Commission shall be at its discretion on the basis of marks obtained by them in the Main written examination only. As far as possible this number will be three times the total number of vacancies.
NOTE-I: – Marks obtained by the candidates in the (Preliminary) examination will not be counted for the purpose of final order of merit. However, marks obtained in the Main written examination as well as in the Personality Test test would determine their final merit for selection. The marks obtained in the Compulsory Papers of English and Hindi will not be counted for overall ranking.
NOTE-II: – The option exercised by the candidates will be taken into consideration while determining their order of merit for selection to the various posts/services.