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Why do u want to join Indian Administrative Service?

From Tony_Pdkt_TN
Answer is to assist stupid and donkey politicians in administration and to give them statistics about what is happening in the district and big companies etc. Nowadays companies chairmen also IAS officers.
Because without IAS officers these matric fail politicians can not understand and manage to do big thing like 5 year plan, budgetting etc.,
Because […]

Limitations of Indian Administrative Service?

I request you to kindly reveal the difficulties a usual IAS, IPS, IFS officer has to face. In the personal as well as professional lives. Please explain as much as you can.
Can they travel freely? Can they stay where they like? Can they get food they like?
From Ramsay James
I ‘ve had the […]

What subjects a doctor should choose for IAS ?

Medical science,  Psychology,  Zoology and Geography are the most popular ones.

Scope After Clearing UPSC CMS Exam - IAS IPS Posting

After clearing your preliminaries, mains and interviews you are sent for training. The probation period is spent in training schools, secretariats, field level postings and district magistrate’s offices. The professional hierarchy has the junior scale officer at the bottom of the ladder, moving up to under secretary, director, joint secretary, and […]

Academic Eligibility for IAS Exams

A degree of any of the Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be a Deemed University under the UGC Act, 1956, or an equivalent qualification.
Candidates who have appeared or intend to appear […]

UPSC Age Limit IAS Exam Age Restriction

UPSC India Age Limit
i. A candidate must have attained 21 years and not be over 30 years on August 1 of the year of examination.
ii. The upper age limit is relaxed in specific cases as mentioned below:

on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year […]

UPSC Application Form - IAS Application Form

Application should be submitted for the Preliminary Examination only. Candidates who are declared by the Commission to have qualified for admission to the Main Examniation, will have to apply again in the detailed application form which will be supplied to them directy by the UPSC.
The application forms are NOT supplied by the […]

UPSC Eligibility Conditions IAS Age Limit

A candidate for CSE must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years. The upper age limit is relaxable by 5 years for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates, by 3 years for candidates of OBC and by various terms for certain other categories.
A candidate […]

Choosing History as an optional

Given the fact that History as a subject,is generally agreed upon by most people as being a compilation of events that determine the future,is indeed humungous.Now having said that,perhaps the upside to taking this subject apart from the obvious reason being the sheer interest it generates amongst readers,is the fact that […]

How much is the salary of an IAS officer when he joins the job?

The initial salary of IAS or any other service at it’s starting it  8000-275-13,500, that is the Junior Time scale.
Rs.275/- is an incremeint per year. It is the annual increase in pay- is drawn as a matter of course from the 1st of the month in which it falls due.
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Life style of a civil servant

(by Kamalesh)
First its not that glamorous as we think when v r out. in IAS highly likely u’l get ur first posting in some remote village with least facilities….and task in hand? u have to develop them
yes social recognition comes with the post. but it comes at the cost of peanuts […]

How scaling is done by UPSC

(article by kushal)
 
Moderation is done not only in the subjective-type main examination but also in the objective-type preliminary examination.
Although multiple choice question papers can yield full marks in any subject, UPSC applies scaling at the prelims stage for two reasons: the variations in the inherent difficulty of various subjects and the variations […]