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UPSC 2018: 50% successful IAS-IPS candidates had Hindi as mother tongue.

Source – business-standard.com

As many as 485 candidates who had chosen Hindi as mother tongue were selected through the civil services examination in 2018, the government said on Thursday.

A total of 812 candidates were recommended for central civil services on the basis of the 2018 test. Of these, 485 chose Hindi and the rest had opted for other regional languages as their mother tongue, it said.

The civil services examination is conducted annually by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to select officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.

The examination is conducted in three stages — preliminary, main and interview.

During the 2017 exam, 1,056 candidates were recommended for different services. Of them, 633 had chosen Hindi as their mother tongue, according to data given by Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

Out of the 1,209 candidates selected in the civil services exam in 2016, 664 had Hindi as their mother tongue. In the 2015 examination, 643 had claimed Hindi as their mother tongue as against 743 such candidates who were selected in the 2014 test.

A total of 1,164 and 1,363 candidates were recommended in civil services examination in 2015 and 2014, respectively.

“The government strives to have a workforce which reflects gender balance and women candidates are encouraged to apply and participate in civil services. Female candidates are exempted from payment of fee for civil services examination,” the minister said.

Further, relaxation of age up to 35 years (up to 40 years for members of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes) is given to widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands who are not re-married for employment to Group ‘C’ and erstwhile Group ‘D’ posts that already exist, Singh said.

Similar relaxation also exists for Group A’ and Group B’ posts except where recruitment is made through open competitive examination, he said.

“It is, however, stated that these instructions are applicable only to central government civilian employees holding civil posts,” the minister said.

A senior Personnel Ministry official said a significant number of people with Hindi as the mother tongue have been selected through the civil services examination which is an encouraging trend.

“It is an encouraging trend to see that significant number of people with Hindi as their mother tongue are getting selected for civil services through the civil services examination,” he said.

BPSC 65th Exam PT: Bihar Public Service Commission released model of 65th PT.

Source – heraldpublicist.com

Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) 65 Mannequin reply of Key PT was launched. If college students have any sort of objection, then 11 can file their objection by November. The Joint Secretary of the Fee Amarendra Kumar mentioned that if college students have any objections concerning the solutions to any questions, then they need to point out the reply e book or e book associated to them. In order that it may be thought-about. No objection might be accepted within the passage of time .

Tell us that the 65 preliminary examination of Bihar Public Service Fee was performed in a peaceable method lately. The attendance of scholars within the examination was 70 %. The examination began at midday 12. The questions requested within the examination had been excessive degree. There was skepticism among the many candidates concerning some questions. There was some issue among the many candidates particularly with the fifth choice.

On the similar time, many of the questions within the examination had been requested from historical past of Bihar. Most questions in historical past had been associated to the historical past of contemporary India. On the similar time, the variety of questions associated to the statistics of financial system and geography was additionally excessive. A lot of the questions of present affairs had been within the financial system. In science, the variety of questions was equal by combining the three sections. Many questions associated to the census 2011 had been requested. Matric degree questions had been requested in psychological means and reasoning take a look at. If examination specialists Dr. VC Jha and Dr. M. Rahman are to be seen, based mostly on the questions requested, the cutoff of basic class is more likely to go from 100 to 105.