Civil Services Exam

Number of officers in position as on January 1, 2019, was 5,205, against the total authorised strength of 6,699To address the shortage of IAS officers in the regular recruitment quota, the government has increased the annual intake from 55 in civil services exam 1998 to 180 in CSE 2013

The Niti Aayog has suggested that the upper age limit for entry into the civil services be brought down to 27 years from the present 30 years for general category candidates

UPSC Civil Services Prelims results 2017 were declared on Thursday and are now available at upsc.gov.in. Here are the next steps to be followed

Aspirants who have not yet applied for the UPSC civil service prelims can submit the application on the official website till Friday evening

MoS for personnel Jitendra Singh says the UPSC is examining the Baswan Committee report on the civil services exam and the govt is yet to receive its recommendations

The final number of vacancies may undergo change after getting firm number of vacancies from cadre controlling authorities, the UPSC notification said

TheUPSC will be conducting the civil services preliminary examination to select IAS, IFS and IPS officers in June after a gap of three years

It is after the gap of three years that UPSC will be conducting the civil services prelims exam in June, rather than August

The Baswan committee is understood to have recommended reduction in upper age limit of 32 years to appear in the civil services exam

An expert committee would be formed to examine various issues like eligibility, syllabus, scheme and pattern of the exam