DoPT 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
