UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination ,2018 -Appointment to Respective Categories

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Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2018

Posted On: 11 OCT 2019 5:27PM by PIB Delhi

The results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2018 were declared vide Press Note dated 05.04.2019 recommending 759 candidates in order of merit for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and Central Services Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ against 812 vacancies.

The Commission, in accordance with the Rule 16 (4) & (5) of the Civil Services Examination Rules, was also maintaining a Consolidated Reserve List in order of merit below the last recommended candidate under the respective categories.

As sought by the Department of Personnel & Training, the Commission has now recommended 53 candidates which include 38 General, 14 OBC and 01 SC, to fill up the remaining posts based on the Civil Services Examination, 2018. Particulars of these candidates are included herewith. The candidates so recommended will be intimated directly by the DOP&T.

The candidature of following candidates bearing Roll No. 1107694 and 0882880 are provisional.

The list of these 53 candidates is also available on the UPSC website i.e. https://www.upsc.gov.in.

Chennai Metro’s Chief Security Officer inspects Metro Stations, Central Control set up

Chennai: Senior IPS officer K Bhavaneeshwari who took charge as Chief Security Officer of Chennai Metro Rail on Monday inspected the Metro Rail stations and Central Control centre and said a detailed plan would be chalked out to provide security cover. She took over after the government decided security of metro rail stations would be entrusted to the state police.

Police protection are deemed necessary for metro rail stations because such mass rapid systems are vulnerable to terror attacks. A force trained in detection of explosives and crime without affecting commuters and operations could be deployed at the stations.

“A detailed plan will be prepared in a couple of days. We will use existing personnel of private agencies. Police personnel will be posted in key areas as soon we get a dedicated team,” she told media persons.

CMRL officials took the officer around the Operation Control Centre and briefed her on handling trains. They pointed out the locations and points requiring special focus in terms of security.

PIS Security Agency and SIS Security Agency are currently in charge of security of metro rail stations with Peter, a retired armed reserve deputy commissioner of police, in overall charge.

“If possible, I will also visit metro rail networks in other cities to study safety aspects followed,” she added. The detailed security draft will include plans and proposals for acquiring gadgets to be installed on the periphery of metro rail stations. “As only a small stretch of 10 km is operational, it will be easy to study and fix issues immediately. Once the other lines are opened, we can implement the same security measures in all these metro railway stations,” she said.

In view of the heightened security threat, Delhi metro rail hired ther Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to guard its stations. Kolkata metro stations are guarded by Railway Protection Force, while Mumbai metro stations are provided security cover by the Maharastra state special police force.

Railway Minister recommended to 7th Pay Commission that the top layer of the Indian Railways bureaucracy be elevated

Suresh Prabhu for better track for rail babus

Moots CRB on a par with COAS

Adding a fresh chapter to the perennial struggle of other Group A civil service personnel to achieve parity with the highly privileged Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre in terms of status and rank, if not pay and allowances, railway minister Suresh Prabhu has written to the 7th Pay Commission recommending that the top layer of the Indian Railways bureaucracy be elevated. While the demand is not new, getting a minister to make the recommendation is unique.

If Prabhu’s proposal is accepted by the commission headed by justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, the chairman of the Railway Board (CRB) will get the rank of the chief of army the  staff and counterparts in the navy and air force, who enjoy near-parity with the Cabinet secretary, the country’s senior-most civil servant and invariably from the IAS.

The CRB and members the Railway Board, who belong to various cadres like the Railway Traffic/Engineering Services, the Indian Audits and Accounts Service, etc, are currently ranked equivalent to a secretary to the government of India.

Besides the CRB, the Railway Board as the apex body of the national transporter currently includes eight members including the Finance Commission, the director general, Railway Health Services, and DG, Railway Protection Force.

Sources said Prabhu also proposed that railway zonal general managers — some 25 of them — could be elevated to the rank of chief secretaries of the states, who have the same rank as secretaries to the Union government.

Prabhu’s move, unprecedented by a railway minister, would give fresh ammunition to other cadres — principally the Indian Police Service and Indian Revenue Service — in their pitch for rewards commensurate with the members of the IAS. It could potentially lead to an increase in the Centre’s salary bill, in addition to what the commission’s recommendations would have caused otherwise.

The IPS and IRS associations have approached successive Pay Commissions with similar demands in the past, but with limited or no success, partly because these demands have never got endorsed by the political executive. The differential Grade Pays for IAS and non-IAS officers brought in by the 6th Pay Commission only widened the disparity.

Although sources said that the status change proposed for scores of top railway officials won’t result in a significant increase in their salary packages, the fact remains that pay and allowances are closely linked to rank.

Analysts said the Pay Commission would find it hard to give secretary-to-GoI status to some 35 officers with the railways without accepting similar demands from IPS and IRS associations. Either the commission would be liberal to the pleas from all Group A services or deny them all, they said.

The IPS cadre, manned by people immediately following those selected for IAS and IFS in the UPSC rank list, has less than 10 posts equivalent to secretaries to the central government, while an IRS official can never be a secretary, with the topmost positions reserved for the cadre — that of chairpersons of the Central Board of Direct Taxes and Central Board of Excise & Customs — are of the special secretary level, a notch below the secretary’s.

In comparison, there are over 150 posts of secretaries/equivalent rank meant for IAS officials.

Source:The Financial Express