Provincial Forest Service (Uttar Pradesh)
Provincial Forest Service (IAST: Prāntīya Vana Sevā), often abbreviated to as PFS, is one of the state natural resource services under Group 'A' and Group 'B' state service of Government of Uttar Pradesh responsible for ensuring the ecological stability of the country via thorough protection and participatory sustainable forestry, wildlife and environment.[3] The Department of Forest and Wildlife of the Government of Uttar Pradesh is the cadre-controlling authority of the service.In theory, one-third of the PFS quota is filled by promotion from Forest Rangers' cadre, and the remainder of recruitment is done on the basis of an annual competitive examination conducted by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission, but in reality, there hasn't been an examination held for ACF in many years.PFS officers, regardless of their mode of entry, are appointed by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.Most of the directly recruited PFS officers get promoted to the IFS after getting pay level 11.