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    About UPSC

    The civil service system is the backbone of the administrative machinery of the country. It is the permanent executive branch of the Republic of India. The policies and schemes are made by the government.The civil servants are the administrators.The civil servants are responsible for implementing all the government policies and schemes successfully up to the root level.It consists of Indian Administrative services(IAS),Indian Police services(IPS),Indian Foreign services (IFS) along with central Group A and group B services.

    Union Public Service Comission

    • Subject to the provisions of article 315, there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and a Public Service Commission for each State.
    • Two or more States may agree that there shall be one Public Service Commission for that group of States, Parliament may by law provide for the appointment of a Joint State Public Service Commission to serve the needs of those States.
    • The Public Service Commission for the Union, if requested so to do by the Governor of a State, may, with the approval of the President, agree to serve all or any of the needs of the State.
    • The composition of the commission is determined by the president for UPSC and by the governor for SPSCs.The Chairman and other members of a Public Service Commission shall be appointed,in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission,by the President, and in the case of a State Commission,by the Governor of the State.
    • One-half of the members of every Public Service Commission shall be persons who at the dates of their respective appointments have held office for at least ten years either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State.
    • A member of a Public Service Commission shall hold office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains,in the case of the Union Commission, the age of sixty-five years, and in the case of a State Commission or a Joint Commission, the age of sixty-two years, whichever is earlier.A person who holds office as a member of a Public Service Commission shall,on the expiration of his term of office, be ineligible for reappointment to that office.
    • The Chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission shall only be removed from his office by order of the President on the ground of misbehaviour after the Supreme Court,on reference being made to it by the President has, on inquiry held in accordance with the procedure prescribed in that behalf under article 145.The President, in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission and the Governor in the case of a State Commission, may suspend from office the Chairman.

    In the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission, the President and, in the case of a State Commission, the Governor of the State may by regulations :

    The competitive examination comprises two successive stages:

    1. Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination – Objective Type for the selection of candidates for Main Examination;
    2. Civil Services (Main) Examination – Written and Interview for the selection of candidates for the various Services and posts.

    The Preliminary Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; 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 twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year through this examination. candidates who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year provided they are otherwise eligible for admission, to the Main Examination.

    The Commission will draw a list of candidates to be qualified for Civil Services (Main) Examination based on the criterion of minimum qualifying marks of 33% in General Studies Paper-II of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination and total qualifying marks of General Studies Paper-I of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination as may be determined by the Commission.

    There will be negative marking for incorrect answers as detailed below:

    (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 (0.33) 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.

    • determine the number of members of the Commission and their conditions of service
    • make provision with respect to the number of members of the staff of the Commission and their conditions of service:

    The conditions of service of a member of a Public Service Commission shall not be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. The Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission shall be ineligible for further employment either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State; The Chairman of a State Public Service Commission shall be eligible for appointment as the Chairman or any other member of the Union Public Service Commission or as the Chairman of any other State Public Service Commission, but not for any other employment either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State; A member other than the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission shall be eligible for appointment as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission or as the Chairman of a State Public Service Commission, but not for any other employment either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State.

    A member other than the Chairman of a State Public Service Commission shall be eligible for appointment as the Chairman or any other member of the Union Public Service Commission or as the Chairman of that or any other State Public Service Commission, but not for any other employment either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State.

    It shall be the duty of the Union and the State Public Service Commissions to conduct examinations for appointments to the services of the Union and the services of the State respectively.  It shall also be the duty of the Union Public Service Commission, if requested by any two or more States so to do, to assist those States in framing and operating schemes of joint recruitment for any services for which candidates possessing special qualifications are required.

    The Union Public Service Commission or the State Public Service Commission, as the case may be, shall be consulted—

    1. On all matters relating to methods of recruitment to civil services and for civil posts;
    2. On the principles to be followed in making appointments to civil services and posts and in making promotions and transfers from one service to another and on the suitability of candidates for such appointments, promotions or transfers;
    3. On all disciplinary matters affecting a person serving under the Government of India or the Government of a State in a civil capacity, including memorials or petitions relating to such matters;
    4. On any claim by or in respect of a person who is serving or has served under the Government of India or the Government of a State or under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State, in a civil capacity, that any costs incurred by him in defending legal proceedings instituted against him in respect of acts done or purporting to be done in the execution of his duty should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of India, or, as the case may be, out of the Consolidated Fund of the State;
    5. On any claim for the award of a pension in respect of injuries sustained by a person while serving under the Government of India or the Government of a State or under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State, in a civil capacity, and any question as to the amount of any such award, and it shall be the duty of a Public Service Commission to advise on any matter so referred to them and on any other matter which the President, or, as the case may be, the Governor of the State, may refer to them:

    The President as respects the all- India services and also as respects other services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union, and the Governor, as respects other services and posts in connection with the affairs of a State, may make regulations specifying the matters in which either generally, or in any particular class of case or in any particular circumstances, it shall not be necessary for a Public Service Commission to be consulted.

     

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