UPSC

(Union Public Service Commission)

Posts Offered

Group A

• Indian Administrative Service
• Indian Foreign Service
• Indian Police Service
• Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’
• Indian Defense Accounts Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’
• Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration)
• Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'

Posts Offered

• Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’
• Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, GroupA
• Indian Defense Estates Service, Group ‘A’
• Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’
• Indian Trade Service, Group 'A' (Gr. III)
• Indian Corporate Law Service, Group "A".

GROUP B

• Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade)
• Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar

Haveli Civil Service, Group 'B'

• Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group 'B'
• Pondicherry Civil Service, Group 'B'
• Pondicherry Police Service, Group 'B’

SELECTION PROCESS

Notification – Feb

Civil Services Prelim Exam – May

Civil Services Mains – Oct -Nov

Interview – March

Results – May

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Candidates in their final year of graduation can also apply!!

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Duties of IAS officer

• The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative civil service of the executive branch of the Govt. of the Republic of
• The officers of the IAS play a major role in managing the bureaucracy of both the Union Government (Central Government) and the state governments, with its officers holding strategic posts across the
• Functions of IAS Officer:
  • Policy Formulation
  • Policy Implementation
  • Civil administration
  • Advisors to Ministers
  • Managing bureaucracy (Center and State)

DUTIES OF IPS OFFICER

• To fulfill duties in the areas of maintenance of public peace and order, crime prevention, investigation, and detection, collection of intelligence, VIP security, counter-terrorism, border policing,  railway     policing,     tackling     smuggling,      drug      trafficking,      economic offences, corruption   in   public   life,   disaster   management,   enforcement   of   socio- economic legislation, bio-diversity and protection of environmental laws
• Leading and commanding the Indian Intelligence Agencies like   Research   and   Analysis Wing (R&AW), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), Crime Investigation Department (CID) etc., Indian Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, Civil and Armed Police Forces in all the states and union territories.
• Leading and commanding the Para-Military Forces of India (PMF) which include the Central Police Organizations (CPO) and Central Paramilitary Forces (CPF) such as Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), National Security Guard (NSG), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Vigilance Organizations, Indian Federal Law Enforcement

DUTIES OF IPS OFFICER

• Serve  at          head          of          the          departments          in          policy                      making     in the   Ministries   and   Departments   of   Central    and    State    Governments    and    public sector undertakings both at centre and states, Government of India.
• To interact and coordinate closely with the members of other All India Services and Central Civil Services and also with the Indian Armed Forces primarily with the elite Indian Army.
• Endeavour to inculcate in the police forces under their command such values and norms as would help them serve the people
• Inculcate integrity of the highest order, sensitivity to aspirations of people in a fast-changing social  and   economic   milieu,    respect    for    human    rights,    broad    liberal    perspective of law and justice and high standard of professionalism
• Last but not the least, to lead and command the force with courage, uprightness, dedication and a strong sense of service to the people.