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Organization : Zakat Foundation of India
Fellowship Name : ZFI Fellowship
Foundation Location : Delhi

Website : http://www.zakatindia.org/CivilServices.html

ZFI Fellowship:

1. Selection Procedure:
On the last Saturday of April every year, an All India Level Entrance Test is held from 9am onward at God’s Grace School (North Campus), Abul Fazal Enclave (D Block), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110025.

Update:
Zakat Foundation ZFI Fellowship For Civil Services Exam 2019 : www.scholarships.net.in/19033.html

Result of this written test is declared the same evening by 7 PM at ZakatIndia.org

Short listed candidates are interviewed the next day (last Sunday of April) from 10:00 am at CISRS House, 14 Jangpura-B, Mathura Road, Opp. Rajdoot Hotel, New Delhi.

2. How To Apply:
(a) Technical Graduates (medicine, engineering, chartered accountancy, law, and the like) and Post graduates in any field, aged 19-24 years (as on 01 Sept of the year in which the UPSC Prelim Exam will be held for which the selection procedure is organized) are invited to apply online only. The Last Date for online application expires at midnight on the Monday falling immediately before the last Saturday of April. No monetary allowance is admissible for appearing at the test and interview.

3. Selection Procedure:
Candidates have to appear (in English medium only) for written test of 1 hr 15 minutes and interview as follows:

(A) Written:
(i) General Studies & Aptitude 100 Marks
(on the pattern of UPSC Cvil Services Prelims Exam)

(ii) Essay – 150 words 50 Marks
(B) Interview 50 Marks

Please paste one passport size recent photograph on a printout of the email information that’s received by you from ZFI in respect of the selection procedure and also sign this paper. This will be your admit card.

Also bring a Govt issued ID proof (Adhaar Card, Election Card, Passport or Driving License).

The selected candidates are required as follows:
4. Joining:
a) To report to ZFI office at CISRS House, 14 Jangpura-B, Mathura Road, New Delhi 110014 at 10 am in June or July next on a date to be notified to the selected candidates.

Depositing the Originals:
b) To deposit all their original marksheets plus certificates and degrees with ZFI – from matriculation to post-graduation. These will be returnable on or after 31 May of the year that falls two years after the year during which the selected ZFI Fellow joins ZFI.

c) If, for any reason, a candidate needs that any or all of the degrees/certificates be returned to him/her earlier, then the entire amount incurred on his/her coaching & residence by ZFI shall be refunded by him/her to ZFI before any of the degrees/marksheets/certificates can be returned to him/her. Also, for this purpose, application shall be emailed to ZFI in prescribed form.

d) Please bring 2 passport size recent photographs and

e) A copy of the Govt issued ID proof (Adhaar Card, Election Card, Passport or Driving License) duly signed by yourself.

5. Hostel:
i) In New Delhi, the ZFI Fellows will have to compulsorily live in the accommodation provided by ZFI.

ii) For accommodation, to be provided by ZFI, each male ZFI Fellow will have to pay ZFI at the subsidized rate of Rs. 2,000/- per month. Full amount of Hostel charges for 20 months (Rs.40,000/-) will have to be deposited through bank draft payable in New Delhi in advance at the time of registration before joining the Fellowship.

iii) In the gentlemen’s hostel, the kitchen is equipped with gas cylinder, cooking utensils and a cook. The cooking material has to be jointly and mutually funded by the ZFI Fellows.

iv) Lady ZFI Fellows will be provided food from the hostel against payment.

6. Security Deposit:
In addition, at the time of registration before joining, each candidate will have to deposit a bank draft of Rs. 25,000/- favoring ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF INDIA payable at New Delhi as security deposit, returnable not earlier than 31 May of the year that falls two years after the year during which the selected ZFI Fellow joins ZFI. Behind the bank draft please write the candidate’s full name & parent’s names.

7. Affidavit:
Each ZFI Fellow will have to file an affidavit with ZFI, as per prescribed contents.

8. Financial Assistance for Coaching:
Taking into consideration the candidate’s and his/her financial capacity, ZFI will sponsor the coaching fees to the maximum extent of ninety percent of the net amount payable by ZFI to any coaching institute. The balance amount will be deposited in advance (with the ZFI) by the ZFI Fellow. In case the ZFI agrees also to sponsor the Test Series, this percentage will come down to eighty.

9. ZFI’s decision is final:
By applying for ZFI Fellowship the candidate is presumed to accept the condition and solemnly affirm that in all matters the decision of ZFI shall be final and binding on him/her.

10. Sanction against non-compliance:
In case a candidate, after his/her selection, ever refuses to comply with any of these requirements, his/her security in the form of bank draft shall be forfeited in addition to any other fine/penalty leviable by ZFI none of which shall be questioned in any administrative/legal/judicial proceeding.

11. Welcome on board:
The ZFI Fellows are required to select the coaching institutes as per their optional subject requirement and inform the details through email at civil services@zakatindia.org within ten days. They candidates are taken under the joint guidance and supervision of Zakat Foundation of India, Aishabai Trust and Interfaith Coalition for Peace in order to help them properly prepare for the Preliminary, Mains, and Interview for Personality Test for the UPSC Civil Services Examination. They are expected to treat themselves not as guests of ZFI. Instead, they would do their best to ensure that this short association of 20 months or so turns into an asset for both.