Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in May 3, 2013
UPSC has declared result of Civil Service Examination 2012.
A total number of 998 candidates have been recommended for appointment including 457 General (including 23 Physically challenged candidates), 295 Other Backward Classes (including 09 Physically challenged
candidates), 169 Scheduled Castes (including 02 Physically challenged candidate) and 77 Scheduled Tribes candidates against 1091 vacancies ( 550 General, 295 Other Backward Classes, 169 Scheduled Castes and
77 Scheduled Tribes).
Top 20 Candidates are:
1 HARITHA V KUMAR
2 SRIRAM V
3 STUTI CHARAN
4 ALBY JOHN VARGHESE
5 RUCHIKA KATYAL
6 ARUN THAMBURAJ A
7 T PRABHUSHANKAR
8 VANDANA
9 CHANDNI SINGH
10 ASHISH GUPTA
11 MAYUR DIXIT
12 RAGHVENDRA SINGH
13 RAHUL
14 DEBASWETA BANIK
15 DIWEGAONKAR KAUSTUBH C
16 K SHASHANKA
17 ANKITA CHAKRAVARTY
18 TANU PRIYA
19 APURVA DUBEY
20 PRIYANKA NIRANJAN
For more details click
UPSC 2012 Result.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Mar 1, 2013
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Feb 23, 2013
Notification for Civil Service Preliminary Exam 2013 is expected today.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Feb 22, 2013
UPSC has declared the result of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2012 held by the Union Public Service Commission in October, 2012.
Nearly 3000 candidates have been qualified for the final stage of Civil Services,2012. Personality Test of these candidates will commence from 4th March, 2013. Personality Tests will be held in the Office of the Union Public Service Commission at Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi.
For complete result click UPSC.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Dec 14, 2012
under:
Alka Sirohi,
D. P. Agarwal,
Dr. K K Paul,
Dr. Venkatarami Reddy Y,
I M G Khan,
Manbir Singh,
Prashanta Kumar Mishra,
Prof. David R. Syiemlieh,
Purushottam Agarwal,
Rajni Rajdan,
UPSC,
UPSC Members.,
Vijay Singh
1. Chairman Prof. D. P. Agarwal.
He was founder Director of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Instt. of Information Technology & Management (ABV IIITM) Gwalior. Previously, he was Professor and Dean at IIT Delhi. In 1994, he took over as Joint Educational Adviser (Technology) in the Ministry of HRD. He had taken many initiative at national level in technical education, partcularly in the areas of Information technology and Computer Education. Moreover, he was Managing Director of Educational Consultants India Ltd. (Ed.CIL) also.
2. Prof. Purushottam Agarwal.
Brief facts:
- Basically from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
- Alumnus of Maharani Laxmi Bai College,
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh has done, MA (Political Science, 1977 - Jiwaji University,
Gwalior, MA (Hindi Literature, 1979 - J.N.U., New Delhi), Ph.D (Hindi Literature, 1985, ‘The Social Meaning of
Kabir’s Bhakti’; J.N.U., New Delhi).
- Formerly Chairperson, Center of Indian Languages, School of Language,
Literature and Culture Studies, J.N.U, New Delhi;
- Chief
Advisor, Hindi Textbooks (classes VI-XII), NCERT, New Delhi (2005-07).
- Prof.
Agrawal taught at Ramjas College, University of Delhi (1982-90), edited and
published “Jigyasa”, an inter-disciplinary academic journal (1983-84), served as
Associate Professor, Center of Indian Languages, JNU (1990-2003). Professor of
Hindi Literature, Center of Indian Languages, School of Languages, Literature
and Culture Studies (SLLCS), JNU (2003-07).
- He served as British Academy Visiting Professor at Faculty of Oriental
Studies, Cambridge University and as Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge
University, United Kingdom. Also served as Visiting Professor at El Colegio de Mexico
(National College of Mexico, Mexico City).
- Prof. Agrawal won Devi Shankar Awasthy Samman for “Teesra Rukh”, 1996, and
Mukutdhar Pandey Samman for “Sanskriti: Varchswa aur Pratiroadh”, 1997.
- Some of
the books written by Prof. Agrawal are Kabir:Sakhi aur Sabad (A collection
of Kabir’s poetry with an analytical introduction), Shivdan Singh Chauhan (A
monograph in “Makers of Indian Literature” series published by Sahitya Akademi,
Delhi), Majbooti Ka Naam Mahatma Gandhi (published version of annual Gandhi
Lecture, organized by Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi), Nij Brahma Vichhar:Dharma
Samaj aur Dharmetar Adhyatma (Essays on religion, spirituality and philosophy),
Vichaar ka Ananta (a collection of theoretical and cultural essays), Teesra Rukh
(A collection of literary and cultural essays), Sanskriti: Varchswa aur
Pratiroadh (a collection of cultural and political essays). His book ‘Akath Kahani Prem Ki: Kabir Ki Kavita aur Unka Samay’ (2009)
was awarded the First Rajkamal Kriti Samman.
- An active social activist and consultant, Prof. Agrawal served as chief
advisor (2003-06) of the ‘Peaceful co-existence in South Asia’ project of the
Aman Trust, Delhi. As a consultant to Oxfam, India (1998-2002), he had organized
inter-faces of scholars, creative artists and social activists as part of the
Violence Amelioration and Mitigation Project (VMAP). His writings have been included in a course ‘Public
intellectuals of India’ offered by the College of Mexico, Mexico City.
3. Dr. K K Paul.
An IPS Officer of AGMUT Cadre, 1970, Dr Krishan Kant Paul is a Ph.D in Chemistry from Panjab University. He was
amongst the first Ph.Ds in Police Service.
Facts about him:
- Published over 20 papers in Chemistry.
- Wrote Columns “Brass
Tacks” in “The Tribune”.
- Chief of Police in Arunachal Pradesh.
- Worked in Central Intelligence Agencies.
- Asian Games in 1982, followed by NAM and CHOGM in 1983.
- Introduction of several new technologies in
policing in Delhi and making Delhi Police into one of the most modern police
forces in the country.
- “Citizens First” was made into a guiding principle to
focus on the service aspect of policing. Community policing initiatives.
- Schemes like “Parivartan”, to fight crimes against women was initiated which
won international acclaim.
- The prestigious “Weber Savvy” award for Community
Policing and Law Enforcement was also won by Delhi Police during his tenure.
- Amongst the other modernization efforts were the computerization of fingerprints
and intensive use of CCTV cameras for security in public places and for
management of traffic. Networking of Traffic signals through computers was also
achieved.
- He is the recipient of several commendations and appreciations from the
Government, besides “Kathin Seva Padaks” and with Bar, President’s Police Medal
for Distinguished Services and Police Medal for Meritorious Services besides the
Internal Security Medal.
It is not possible to fool him by giving vague answer, it is better to say no to him.
4. Shri I M G Khan.
- 1970 batch Indian Postal Service officer is from Rampur, U.P.
- An alumnus of La Martiniere College,
Lucknow and the Aligarh Muslim University from where he did his M.Sc. (Geology).
- Worked as Management Trainee in Indian Oil Corporation.
- Join
Indian Postal Service (Group ‘A’) in 1970.
- Served in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration,
Mussoorie (as Deputy Director, Senior) UPSC (as Additional Secretary), and Ministry of
Personnel PG & Pensions (as Additional Secretary).
- In UPSC served as
Member Secretary, Civil Services Examination Reforms Committee headed by Prof.
Y.K. Alagh and also worked for bringing in significant changes and reforms in
the examination systems (“Sampera” Scheme).
- Appointed Secretary, Department of Posts, Director General (Posts) and
Chairman, Postal Services Board.
5. Shri Prashanta Kumar Mishra.
Brief:
- Indian
Administrative Service officer of 1972 cadre, Uttar Pradesh.
- Served as Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh and Government of India. Held positions such as District Magistrate, Commissioner, Trade Tax and
Secretary in the departments of Institutional Finance, Panchayat, Science &
Technology, Department of Cooperation etc. and the Chief Executive of New Okhla
Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA), and Commissioner, Meerut Division.
- At the Government of India level, he worked as Director, Youth Affairs and Director General, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangthan. In
January 1998, he was posted as Managing Director of the National Cooperative
Development Corporation (NCDC) and worked till January 2003.
- He also worked as
Chairman, India Potash Ltd. Thereafter, he went back to UP and worked as
Principal Secretary, Public Sector Enterprises, Principal Secretary, Food &
Civil Supply; and Principal Secretary and Commissioner, Welfare, UP from March
2003 to January 2004.
- In 2004, he took over as Additional Secretary,
Ministry of Defence, Government of India and worked later on worked as Additional Secretary & Financial
Adviser, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of
Environment & Forests. He worked as Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs from 31st
October 2006 to 30th June, 2007 in GOI.
- From 1st July, 2007 to 23rd May, 2008;
he worked as Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh.
- He also served as a Director on
the Board of Directors of National level organizations such as IFFCO, KRIBHCO,
NAFED, FAI etc.
- He had been Chairman of the Regional Network for Development of Agricultural
Cooperatives in the Asia and the Pacific Region (NEDAC) of the FAO for two years
from November 1999 to September 2001 and held the position of Co-Chairman of
NEDAC (FAO) from 2001 to 2003.
- He was also on the Board of Directors of Air India Ltd., Indian Airlines
Ltd., IAL Air Transport Services Ltd, Airports Authority of India, Pawan Hans
Helicopters Ltd., Hotel Corporation of India, India Tourism Development
Corporation.
- He has written various papers in international/ national workshops and
seminars and has also written a book titled “EK DRISTIKON”.
6.Shri Vijay Singh.
Brief facts:
- Joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1970 (MP cadre).
- Key assignments
held in the State Government include District Magistrate, Bhopal, District
Magistrate, Gwalior, Commissioner Jabalpur Division, Commissioner Indore
Division, Home Secretary and Chief Secretary, Government of MP. Has spent over 15
years in assignments directly related to the management of law and order and his
role in preventing communal riots in Indore following the demolition of the
Babri Masjid in 1992 was widely praised in the national media at that time.
- Served in the Central Government at the level of Deputy Secretary/Director,
Joint Secretary, Additional Secretary and Secretary. Worked as Coordinator for
the festivals of India in France, USA, USSR and Japan from 1983 to 1987, under
the chairmanship of Smt. Pupul Jayakar.
- Served as Joint Secretary and Financial
Adviser in the Ministry of Health from 1996 to 2001 and was closely associated
with the creation of major national facilities such as the National Institute of
Biologicals, the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Medical
Sciences at Shillong, the Trauma Centre at All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi as well as expansion of health facilities in rural areas.
- Served as Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Ministry of
Chemicals and Fertilizers and Additional Secretary (Broadcasting), Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting from 2002 to 2004.
- Served as Secretary, Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways and Defence Secretary.
- Appointed
Member, Union Public Service Commission in November 2009.
7. Smt Rajni Rajdan.
Brief facts:
- She is an Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Haryana Cadre (1973 batch) where she served as Secretary, Cooperation and Public Health, Principal Secretary, Housing
and Chairman, Haryana Housing Board.
- Her
assignments at the Centre included Joint Secretary in the Ministry of
Food and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances & Pensions.
- Author
of a number of publication, she became Secretary to the Government of
India in the Department of Pension & Administrative Reforms &
Public Grievances in February 2007.
8. Dr. Venkatarami Reddy Y.
- Former Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission between 2005 to 2011.
- He was Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal
Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh hails from
Kamalapuram village in Garladinne mandal of Anantapur district.
- He is BE electrical engineering from the
Government of College of Engineering, Anantapur, and M.E. degree from
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
- He
did his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and
joined as a lecturer at the JNTU College of Engineering in 1975.He was
the youngest Vice-Chancellor to be appointed in JNTU's history in 1999
and continued in the position for six and half years till 2004.
-
Prof.
Reddy was also the Chairman of Engineering, Agricultural and Medical
Common Entrance Test, AP (EAMCET) for a record six years from 1999 to
2004.
9. Smt. Alka Sirohi.
- An IAS officer of 1974 batch of Madhya Pradesh Cadre.
- She served
as Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training, and Secretary, Department of Food &
Public Distribution in Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public
Distribution in Government of India.
- Earlier, she was Special Secretary
and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public
Distribution in Government of India and also held the post of
Principal Advisor in the Planning Commission.
- In her state cadre, Smt. Alka Sirohi held important assignments in the
departments of Agriculture Cooperation, Women & Child Development
and Health & Family Welfare.
- A post graduate in Western History,
Smt. Sirohi is trained in management and issues related to sustainable
development.
10. Prof. David R. Syiemlieh.
- Professor in the Department of History.
- He held numerous positions in
the University, including Dean of Students' Welfare; Head Department of
History; Controller of Examinations; Registrar and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
11. Sh Manbir Singh
Sh. Manbir
Singh is a 1976 batch IFS officer. He worked as former Secretary (Economic
Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs and held several important
positions which includes Counsellor (Commerce & Economics) in former USSR and
later the Russian Republic. Moreover, he was in the Embassy of India in the United Arab
Emirates, Chief of Protocol in New Delhi and Ambassador of India in Hungary, Iran
and the Netherlands.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in May 20, 2012
UPSC has conducted Civil Service Preliminary Exam 2012 on 20th May, 2012 at various centres all over India..
The pattern of question this time also changes. Some changes are mentioned below:
1. Maths questions are not there in 2nd paper.
2. Reasoning is simple for most of the students.
3. Some students feel uncomfortable with Comprehension section also.
The answer key for Civil Service Preliminary Exam 2012 will be displayed shortly.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Sep 27, 2011
South Sudan became the 54th nation in Africa and 193rd member State of United Nations (UN) on 14th July, 2011.
Facts:
1. President : Salva Kiir Mayardit
2. Area : 619,745 Sq.km.
3. Capital : Juba (Largest City)
4. Main -Minerals : Petroleum
5. Climate : Equatorial
6. Official language : English
Geographical Importance:
Officially the name is Republic of South Sudan,which is a landlocked country usually considered to be a part of North Africa or Eastern Africa. South Sudan is bordered by Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southwest, the Central African Republic to the west, and Sudan to the north. South Sudan includes the vast swamp region of the Sudd formed by the White Nile, locally called the Bahr al Jabal.
The capital city is planned to be moved to the more centrally-located Ramciel in the future
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in May 11, 2011
Today UPSC has declared the result of Civil Service Mains and Interview 2010.
Total 920 Candidates are declared successful in which
General 428.
OBCs 270.
SCs 148.
STs 74.
Top 10 are mentioned below.
S Divyadarshini is the topper.
2. Sweta Mohanty
3. R V Varun Kumar.
4. Abhiram G Shankar.
5. Pulkit Khare.
6. Ravi Dhawan.
7. Karthik Gurunathan Iyer.
8. M Arvind.
9. Ajay Prakash.
10. Alok Ranjan Ghosh.
First and second place is occupied by Girls.
The break up of posts are:
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 151 (76 G, 41 OBC, 23 SC and 11 ST);
Indian Foreign Service (IFS) 35 (18 G, 8 OBC, 3 SC and 6 ST);
Indian Police Service (IPS) 150 (77 G, 40 OBC, 22 SC and 11 ST);
Central Services Group 'A' 623 (324 G, 161 OBC, 94 SC and 44 ST)
Central Services Group 'B' 84 (55 G, 21 OBC, 6 SC and 2 ST).
For complete result visit UPSC Website.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in May 17, 2010
UPSC will conduct Prelims Exam on 23rd May 2010.
Now 5 days are left. Every candidate has some planning for that.
There are some general guidelines to be followed:
- Never learn new things during these days as they will confuse .
- Try to take min. 6 hrs sleep daily.
- Drink plenty of water daily.
- Made adequate enquiry about your centre of exam. If possible take prinout of the map from google maps.
- On the day of exam take a bottle of water with glucose.
- Always check your UPSC admit card before leaving for the exam.
- Also you must have 2 pencils (HB) , rubber, sharpner and two ball point pens.
- Make arrangements of your lunch as at some places market are very far away. And it is not advisable not to eat during the break.
- As the questions in the Preliminary examination are objective in nature, intelligent guesswork may be used to answer questions when you don’t know the precise answer. While solving the paper you may take three rounds. In the first round solve the easy questions. In the second round may be taken up statement and reason. The third round can have the tough questions where the intelligent guesswork may be applied.
- Just keep in mind that the exam has negative marking, so if you do not know about the question at all try to avoid that qustion for the last. Try Law of elimination and still no clue are there then completely avoid that question.
- Avoid discussion on the previous paper during the break. Just give yourself ample time to rejuvinate for the next paper.
And in the last
Best of Luck for the Exam.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in May 6, 2010
UPSC declared the final result of Civil Services 2009.
A total of 875 candidates ( 680 male and 195 female) have been recommended for appointment to the prestigious Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and other central services.
Dr. Shah Faesal of Kupwara Distirct (Jammu & Kashmir) has secured first position in the exam. Prakash Rajpurohit, B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has bagged the second position while Iva Sahay from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has secured the third position. Sahay is the topper among female candidates.
The list of top 25 candidate is:
Rank Roll No. Name
1 025085 SHAH FAESAL
2 070763 PRAKASH RAJPUROHIT
3 001250 IVA SAHAY
4 021364 ANUPAMA T V
5 010462 ANAY DWIVEDI
6 163535 TANVI SUNDRIYAL
7 003708 SASWATI DEY
8 012651 GARIMA MITTAL
9 004936 JAI PRAKASH MAURYA
10 113502 AKHAND PRATAP SINGH
11 223464 ASHUTOSH NIRANJAN
12 038161 LALITHA R
13 084389 RASHMITA PANDA
14 021277 SREEVIDYA P I
15 066108 KANAGA VALLI M
16 018114 PRABHJOT SINGH
17 020908 NARAYANA BHARATH GUPTA
18 089785 SUDHANSU MOHAN SAMAL
19 286565 TARUN RATHI
20 005929 DURGA SAKTHI NAGPAL
21 000162 PRAVEEN P NAIR
22 006020 GANESH SHANKAR MISHRA
23 067098 RAJIV RAUSHAN
24 000516 ABHIJEET AGRAWAL
25 003710 GHANSHYAM THORI
For more details, please click on this link UPSC.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Mar 11, 2010
Indian Government has approved a proposal to introduce an aptitude test in place of the existing preliminary examination.
In the new pattern, the UPSC Candidate will have to appear in two objective-type papers having special emphasis on testing their "aptitude for civil services" as well as on "ethical and moral dimension of decision making" under Civil Service Aptitude Test(CSAT). These two papers will replace the existing General Awareness or General Studies and one Optional paper which lays greater emphasis on subject knowledge.
Posted by IAS Vidyalaya
in Mar 5, 2010
UPSC Mains Result 2009 Declared.
On Thursday, 4,March 2010.
UPSC declared the result of Mains Examination of 2009.
As many as 2,281 of the 13,837 candidates who took the test across the country have cleared the mains.
Personality Test of these candidates will commence from 22nd March, 2010.The final interview is conducted in two rounds. The list of candidates who will be taking part in the first round, to be held from March 22 to April 6, will be put up on the
UPSC website on March 16. On March 23, the list of candidates selected to take part in the second round of interview, to be held from April 7 onwards, will be put up on the website.
Personality Tests will be held in the Office of the Union Public Service Commission at Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi-110069.
