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Tina Dabi, who recently topped the UPSC civil services examination, reportedly has many fake profiles and pages on Facebook.
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New Delhi: Tina Dabi, who recently topped the UPSC civil services examination, reportedly has many fake profiles and pages on Facebook.
According to the Deccan Chronicle, Tina has stated on her Facebook page that at least 35 fake profiles and pages are currently active on the social networking site in her name.
Tina, 22, said people have been misusing her name on Facebook and posting ‘obnoxious’ comments with which she has nothing to do.
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“It has come to my notice that some anti-social elements have made around 35 fake Facebook profiles and pages under my name and are posting obnoxious statements posing as me. I want to clarify that none of the ridiculous statements being made under my name are my opinions,” the UPSC topper wrote on Facebook.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Tina said she found the fake profiles on Facebook 'creepy' and 'distressing'.
“It’s very creepy. I never said these things about hard work or dedication. These profiles are quoting someone else and attributing it to me. In future, they may do something worse,” she told the newspaper.
Tina has further called on her friends to report all such fake profiles and pages.
“It’s really heartbreaking for me to see that a few anti-social elements can't even allow a simple girl who has done hard work to remain in peace. I request one and all to kindly report all such fake profiles and pages made under my name as their sole purpose is just to tarnish my image,” she said.
UPSC Civil Services results 2017: All the qualified candidates have to fill up the DAF (CSM) online and submit it online to participate in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2017 scheduled to be held on Saturday, October, 28, 2017. The candidates can find the DAF (CSM) on August 17 on the official website of the commission till 6 pm.
UPSC civil service aspirants queue up outside the exam hall with their admit cards on June 18
UPSC has announced the result of civil services preliminary examination at upsc.gov.inhttp://www.upsc.gov.in/. The result was published on July 27 night. The examination was held on June 18, 2017. This year, the candidates have found the paper tougher as there were questions on Goods and Services Tax (GST), benami transactions and schemes run by the central government.
The aspirants were also asked questions related to National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), ‘Vidyanjali Yojana’ and ‘Smart India Hackathon’, all of which are the NDA government’s initiatives.
A petition is being filed at the Supreme Court on this year’s UPSC preliminary examination paper. The plea alleged that two questions in the 2017 preliminary examination of the prestigious Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) were wrong. “There are rules for determining whether the questions are wrong? The result is yet to be declared. It (result) will come out any day,” she told the bench.
She has also referred to earlier judgements of the apex court which had said that a question has two or more corrects answers should be considered as incorrect. View | UPSC civil services/IFS preliminary results 2017 released at upsc.gov.in
Lakhs of aspirants appeared in the preliminary examination held across the country can view their result by following the steps written below:
UPSC Civil Services results 2017, here’s how to download
Step 1: Go to the official website mentioned above
Step 2: On the homepage, click on the ‘UPSC Civil Services results 2017′ flashing on the right side of the page
Step 3: A new page will open displaying roll number wise results.
Step 4: Check your result and take a print out.
All the qualified candidates have to fill up the DAF (CSM) online and submit it online to participate in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2017 scheduled to be held on Saturday, October, 28, 2017. The candidates can find the DAF (CSM) on August 17 on the official website of the commission till 6 pm.
The cut-off marks and answer keys of screening test held in the preliminary exam 2017 will be uploaded on the Commission website after the declaration of final result of Civil Services Examination, 2017.
UPSC Civil Services Prelims 2017 Result Declared: What's Next?
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) (Hindi: भारतीय प्रशासनिक सेवा) is the All India administrative civil service. IAS officers hold key and strategic positions in the Union Government, States governments and public-sector undertakings.Like in various countries (for example UK) following a Parliamentary system, IAS as the permanent bureaucracy in India forms an inseparable part of the executive branch of the Government of India, thus providing continuity to the administration.
Along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service, the IAS is one of the three All India Services — its cadre can be employed by both the Union Government and the individual States.
Upon confirming to service after probation as Sub-Divisional Magistrate, an IAS officer is given administrative command of entire district administration in the district as District collector after four years of service. On attaining the upper levels of Super Time Scale to Apex Scale, they can go on to head whole departments and subsequently entire Ministries of Governments of India and its states. IAS officers represent Government of India at the international level in bilateral and multilateral negotiations. On deputations they work at Intergovernmental organisations like World Bank and United Nations or its Agencies. IAS officers at various levels of administration play vital roles in conducting free, fair and smooth elections in India under the direction of Election Commission of India and states.
History
The former Imperial Civil Service was the highest civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Civil servants were divided into two categories - covenanted and uncovenanted. The covenanted civil service consisted of only white British civil servants occupying the higher posts in the government. The uncovenanted civil service was solely introduced to facilitate the entry of Indians at the lower rung of the administration. With the passing of the Government of India Act 1919, the Imperial Services headed by the Secretary of State for India, were split into two – All India Services and Central Services. At the time of the partition of India and the departure of the British in 1947, the Imperial Civil Service was divided between the new Dominions of India and Pakistan. The part which went to India was named the Indian Administrative Service, while the part that went to Pakistan was named the Central Superior Services of Pakistan.
Recruitment
IAS officers are recruited from Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. They are also promoted from State Civil Services and selected from non-state civil service. Unlike candidates selected for other civil services, a person once appointed to the Indian Administrative Service or Indian Foreign Service (IFS) becomes ineligible to reappear in Civil Services Examination, because, prior to 1979 a person to be eligible for IAS/IFS had to appear for additional papers but even after the UPSC civil services exam was made common, the status quo was maintained. After getting selected, candidates undergo training at LBSNAA, Mussoorie for IAS.
State Cadres
Being an All India service, officers of the IAS are allotted to State cadres at the beginning of their service. They continue to work in that cadre or are deputed to Government of India. There is one cadre for each Indian state, except for two joint cadres: Assam–Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh–Goa–Mizoram–Union Territories (AGMUT). The "insider-outsider ratio" (ratio of officers who are posted in their home states) is maintained as 1:2, with one-third of the direct recruits as 'insiders' from the same state. The rest are posted as outsiders according to the 'roster' in states other than their home states, as per their preference.
Till 2008 there was no system of preference of state cadre by the candidates; the candidates, if not placed in the insider vacancy of their home states, were allotted to different states in alphabetic order of the roster, beginning with the letters A, H, M, T for that particular year. For example, if in a particular year the roster begins from 'A', which means the first candidate in the roster will go to the Andhra Pradesh state cadre of IAS, the next one to Bihar, and subsequently to Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and so on in alphabetical order. The next year the roster starts from 'H', for either Haryana or Himachal Pradesh (if it has started from Haryana in the previous occasion when it all started from 'H', then this time it would start from Himachal Pradesh). This highly intricate system, in vogue since the mid-1980's, had ensured that officers from different states are placed all over India.
The system of permanent State cadres has also resulted in wide disparities in the kind of professional exposure for officers, when we compare officers in small and big and also developed and backward states. Changes of state cadre is permitted on grounds of marriage to an All India Service officer of another state cadre or under other exceptional circumstances. The officer may go to their home state cadre on deputation for a limited period, after which one has to invariably return to the cadre allotted to him or her.
Functions of the civil servant/officer
Typically the functions of an IAS officer are as follows:
To implement government policies at grass-root level when posted at field work i.e. as SDM, ADM, DM and Divisional Commissioner and act as intermediate between public and government. To handle the daily affairs of the government, including framing and implementation of policy in consultation with the minister-in-charge of the concerned ministry which requires supervision and proper enforcement at ground realities.
In the process of policy formulation and decision making, when posted at central or state secretariat as Joint Secretary, Principal Secretary, Additional Secretary, Chief Secretary, Secretary and Cabinet Secretary at higher level contribute to the final shape of the policy and/or take a final decision with the concurrence of the minister concerned or the cabinet (depending on the gravity of the issue).
Career Progression
Most IAS officers start their careers in the state administration at the sub-divisional level as a sub divisional magistrate. They are entrusted with the law and order situation of the city along with general administration and development work of the areas under their charge. They proceed to various posts in the State and Central Governments, and also local-self Governments (Municipal Corporations / Zilla Parishads), and Public Sector Undertakings.They also occupy posts in regulatory organizations such as SEBI, RBI. If appointed to Constitutional positions such as Election Commission of India or UPSC or statutory authorities such as Central or State Information Commissions, they are deemed to be retired from service. Some IAS officers are also deputed to private sector organizations under Rule 6(2)(ii) of the All India Service (Cadre) Rules.
Major concerns and reforms
In 2015, it was reported by Government of India that as many as 100 IAS officers have been in the list of corrupt bureaucrats and have come under the CBI scanner for alleged involvement in corruption cases. Further, as per Government of India records, over 1,800 IAS officers deliberately failed to submit details of their immovable assets to federal government for year 2016.
Recently, several Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries were arrested in graft cases and laundering. IAS officers have been found amassing disproportionate assets and wealth varying ₹2,000,000,000 (US$31 million),[ ₹3,000,000,000 (US$47 million) and ₹3,500,000,000 (US$54 million).
In 2017, a former Secretary to Government of India and few other IAS officers were sentenced to jail for the coal allocation scam by a CBI special court in Delhi.
In 2017, it was reported by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions that 24 officers from IAS along with 381 Group A Service officers had been premature retired and granted cut in remuneration. In recent years, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has dismissed few IAS officers for non performance. In 2016, it was reported that Government of India has decided to empower common man to seek prosecution of corrupt IAS officers. Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (DoPT) has accepted to receive requests from private persons seeking sanction for prosecution in respect of IAS officers without any proper proposal and supporting documents.
UPSC CSE/IAS exam 2017is scheduled on 18-June-2017. Here you'll find UPSC Civil Services Syllabus & Exam Pattern for IAS Prelims, Mains, & Interview. FYI, UPSC Civil Services Exam is a nationwide competitive examination in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission or recruitment to various Civil Services of the Government of India, including IAS, IPS, IFS, and IRS among others.
UPSC Civil Services Exam is conducted in three phases - Prelims, Mains, & Interview. Let's see the details of each stage below-
UPSC Civil Services/IAS Prelims Exam Pattern 2017
The Examination shall comprise two compulsory papers of 200 marks each.
Paper I – (200 marks) Duration: Two hours – General Studies
Paper II – (200 marks) Duration: Two hours – CSAT
UPSC Civil Services Syllabus 2017 Prelims
Syllabus for Paper I
Current events (National and International)
History of India
Geography of the world (Physical, Social, Economic)
Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution
Economic and Social Development
General Issues (Environmental Ecology, Bio-Diversity, Climate change etc.)
General Science
Syllabus for Paper II
Comprehension
Interpersonal Skills
Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability
Decision making and problem solving
General mental ability
Basic Numeracy
Data Interpretation
Note 1: Both the papers are Objective in nature, and every wrong attempt will cost you 1/3rd marks of the attempted question.
Note 2: CSAT is just a qualifying test with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
Note 3: Candidates clearing the cut-off in Preliminary Examination Paper I as well as qualifying Paper II, shall only be eligible for appearing in the Mains Examination.
Note 4: Marks of Preliminary examination are not considered in the final scores for deciding merit.
This phase will test your academic and intellectual talent in depth. It consists of the following papers:
Qualifying Papers
Paper: A - (One of the Indian Language to be selected by the candidate from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution) - 300 Marks
Paper: B – English - 300 Marks
Note 1: These two papers are qualifying only and marks obtained will not be considered or counted.
Papers to be counted for Merit
Paper
UPSC Civil Services Subjects (Mains)
Marks
Paper-1
Essay-250
Paper-2
General Studies–I (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society) -250
Paper-3
General Studies –II (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)-250
Paper-4
General Studies –III (Technology, Economic Development, Bio‐diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)-250
Paper-5
General Studies –IV (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)-250
Paper-6
Optional Subject – Paper 1-250
Paper-7
Optional Subject – Paper 2-250
Sub Total (Written test)
1750
UPSC CSE Interview and Personality Test (275 Marks)
This phase is totally vocal one and candidates are provided with the option to choose their desired medium of communication.
The final marks obtained in the examination are out of the grand total of 2025 marks.
UPSC Civil Services/IAS Exam 2017 - Important Dates
Date of Notification: 22 February 2017
Last Date to Apply: 17 March 2017 (Apply Online)
Date of UPSC-CSE Preliminary (CSAT) Exam: 18 June 2017 (Sunday, 1 Day)
Date of UPSC-CSE MAINS Exam: 28 October 2017 (5 Days)
UPSC CSE 2017 - Eligibility & Educationcal Qualification
1. Age limit & Relaxation
A candidate must have the age between 21 to 32 years. For OBC the upper age limit is 35, for SC and ST the limit is 37 years and for Physically Disabled persons (Blind, Deaf, Orthopedic) it is 42 years. (Exception: For Jammu & Kashmir Domicile - General Category: 37 years, OBC: 40 years, SC/ST: 42 years, PH: 50 years).
2. Number of Attempts
General category candidates = 6 attempts
OBC category candidates = 9 attempts
SC/ST Candidates = unlimited (till the age)
Physically Disabled (Blind, Deaf, Orthopedic) - General Category = 9 attempts
3. Educational Qualification
For appearing in the exam, a degree of graduation in any stream from any university recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) is required.
Candidates who have appeared in the qualifying exam and are awaiting results are also eligible to apply, provided they submit the certificate of qualification along with the mark sheet to the UPSC before the main exam.
UPSC CSE Prelims exam is just 60 days away, so a proper study plan & preparation strategy must be finalised for cracking IAS Prelims 2017. Though the time remaining is less, it is still enough to clear the prelims. So, in the following paragraphs, we are presenting 2 month preparation strategy, which will help you in cracking the IAS prelims exam 2017 in first attempt.
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UPSC CSE Prelims 2017 Preparation Strategies (2 Months Study Plan)
Analyse UPSC Prelims Last Year Question Papers, Student should go through the previous year’s question papers and try to get a rough idea about what type of questions are being asked. Aspirants should also analyse the question papers and try to find out the areas from where large number of questions are being asked recently. This analysis of previous years’ papers will also be done in detail in the webinar, to be conducted by gradeup. So, if possible, try to attend them.
Drawing a Study Plan
After that students, according to their strengths and weaknesses, should try to chalk out a study plan for themselves. They should devote time to the different subjects according to the factors like difficulty they face in understanding the subject, probability of questions coming in exam etc. For example, if one does not understand the environment portion properly, one should give it more time.
Preparing a Time Budget
Aspirants should also try to draw out a time budget of their study time. For example, if a student studies for 10 hours daily, then total study hours left is about 600 hours. So, he should divide the time in such a way that he will be able to give adequate attention to all the subjects as well as give more time to the subject in which he is facing more difficulty.
The benefit of this step will be, that by the end you will be able to complete all the subjects and will be able to use the time efficiently. Otherwise what happens is that students find that they have given too much time to one subject and were not able to cover other subjects.
UPSC CSE/IAS Prelims Subject-wise Preparation (60 Days Tips)
As the time left is only 60 days, so we should try to focus more on the topics, from which there are high chances of questions being asked. We are trying to give an idea about such topics.
Polity: There are some important topics which should be thoroughly revised like Government of India Acts of 1909, 1919 and 1935, making of constitution, Fundamental rights, Fundamental Duties, DPSP, Parliament, President, Budget procedure, Parliamentary committees, PESA and 10th schedule. These are the chapters that should be covered thoroughly.
Geography: Though only few questions are being asked directly from geography, in recent years. But knowledge of geography can be used in solving several questions. So, we should be very clear in basic concepts. 11th and 12th class geography’s NCERT books should be read thoroughly. Some chapters, if you are not able to understand, like chapter on rocks, then you should read it selectively, but ensure that you are able to solve the questions that are coming from what you have read.
Economy: Many questions are being asked from this subject. You do not need to study too many things, but study basic concepts very thoroughly. For example: if you are reading about Banking sector and monetary policy, then you should know the meaning of different terms like MSF rate, repo rate etc. and the impact of fluctuation of these rates on the economy. Concepts like poverty, unemployment etc. should also be thoroughly grasped.
Environment: This is one of the most important topics in the prelims, in recent years. If you prepare this subject thoroughly, then your chances of clearing prelims become high. Students can follow either NIOS environment book or the Shankar IAS environment book. Read it as many times, as possible. Whatever one has read, should be revised at least 5 times before the exams. The first and last unit of the Shankar IAs environment book is very important.
History: History is a very vast topic. So, this is one subject in which we should first decide the time we can devote to it. Otherwise it will take a lot of time and other subjects will have to suffer. Student should follow only one book. This same strategy is also applicable to culture part.
Science and technology: It is a very vast subject and no single source is there. So, the best strategy will be to cover important topics like: space missions, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and some important technology in news.
Current Affairs: Another important thing is the current affairs. One should be thoroughly aware about the current government schemes, policies etc. They should specially remember the name of the government department or ministry under which the scheme comes. For example, which department prepared the union government budget?? RTI comes under which department?
Important Tips to Crack UPSC Civil Services Exam 2017
Importance of Revision
Aspirants should also give special emphasis on revision. Without adequate revision one will not be able to recall the content correctly in the exam. So, there is a very strong need of revising the content at regular time intervals.
Way to solve map questions
Every year 2-4 question are being asked related to map location. To solve these question, you should start from now only. Daily gave about 20 minutes to maps. Know about the rivers of India, important mountain peaks, important dams etc. Initially it will be difficult to remember them but as you do it regularly for 15 days, you will find them very easy to remember.
One important area to look in the map is about the location of the countries in middle east. There is very high probability of question coming from there.
Read India Year Book
Though whole India Year Book is important, but student must read, first 4 chapters of India year Book thoroughly. Every year 2-3 question comes from these chapters.
Belief in yourself
Student must have belief in his/herself. It can make a huge difference.
