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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Department of Personnel and Training plans to put up profiles of 23 civil services online

 Are you more suitable for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or the Indian Police Service (IPS), or perhaps the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) that you may not have considered closely? Aspiring civil servants will soon be able to make a more informed choice as the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) plans to come up with detailed profiles of all 23 services by November 30.

This will help the candidates qualifying in the recently-held Preliminary Examination of the 2014 Civil Services Examination choose their preferred service on the basis of their aptitude before they fill up their forms for the Mains Examination to be conducted early next year.

The DoPT's move follows realisation in the government that candidates selected through CSE do not indicate their preference for services in order of priority simply because they lack clarity about service conditions and career prospects of different services.

"Hence, sometimes a candidate is chosen for a particular service but quits the same after few years as he realises his aptitude was more apt for another service or he preferred working conditions of another service," a top DoPT official said on condition of anonymity.

The application form for the Mains examination mentions names of each service and asks for cadre preference of the candidates but without providing detailed profiles of different services. A committee headed by former UGC chairman Arun S Nigavekar in 2012 proposed that this form must contain elaborate information about each service and explicitly mention the rules about how service cadre allocations are made.

The DoPT has now decided to implement this recommendation of projection of 'service profile' of various services participating in CSE, but by putting out the elaborate service profiles on its website by the end of November. "The candidate can hence make an informed decision on his preference and the government can get a correct candidate for the correct service," a senior official added.

Source:-The Economic Times

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