Union Public Service Commission Research Articles

Mental Health Status of UPSC CSE Aspirants: A Survey-Based Study

Abstract: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts one of the most challenging and competitive exams in India. Preparing for the UPSC exam requires immense hard work, dedication, and perseverance, which often puts a significant amount of stress on the aspirants' mental health. In this study, we conducted an online survey to assess the mental health status of UPSC aspirants. The survey was conducted on 203 participants, who were either preparing for the UPSC exam or had attempted it multiple times. The survey included questions on their attempts, coaching institutes, physical and mental health, emotional problems, sleep hours, and preparation status. The results indicate that while the majority of the participants rated their physical health as good, their mental health status was somewhat poor or poor. A significant number of participants reported facing emotional problems, feeling low or down, and sleep disturbances. The study highlights the need for mental health support for UPSC aspirants, including counselling services and awareness programs.

The Role of Union Public Service Commission for Recruiting the Civil Services in India

In the Constitution of India, articles from 315 to 323 deals with Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and States Public Service Commissions. An article 315 says that Public Service Commissions for the Union and for the States in India. So, UPSC is a constitutional body and mandated the responsibilities of making recruitment by conduct of competitive examinations and selection through interviews etc mainly at an union level purpose. Article 320 says that functions of Public Service Commissions, which has included the UPSC. The UPSC’s office is divided into 9 divisions and it has been functioning through these divisions for recruitment of the civil services in India. The UPSC has evolved through historical in India. The UPSC has been playing mostly an effective role for the recruitment of civil services through the constitutional provisions and by its office in India.

Unequal Representation of Persons with Disabling Mental Health Conditions in the Quota-Based Employment Reservations Notified by a Public Service Commission.

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act 2016 of India intends to achieve greater representation of persons with benchmark disabilities (PwBD) at government establishments and reserve at least 4% of employment vacancies for PwBD. Of this 4%, 1% is reserved for PwBD with disabling mental health conditions (PwBD-MHC) and multiple disabilities, and 1% each for PwBD due to other disabling conditions like blindness, hearing, and locomotor impairment. We analyzed all the employment vacancy announcements (EVAs) made by the Indian union public service commission (UPSC) during the calendar year 2020 for their adherence to quota-based employment reservations (QBER). Eighteen vacancy advertisements made during the year 2020, for a total of 1370 posts under various departments, announced a total of 57 posts as reserved for PwBD under the QBER system, satisfying the minimum 4% quota. However, none of these posts is reserved for PwBD-MHC. Further, only 7 out of 1370 were described as suitable for PwBD-MHC, implying that 1363 are not suitable for them. The QBER system and the subdivision of quotas are well-intended to achieve the minimum representation of PwBD across all categories of jobs. However, the EVAs by UPSC in the year 2020 did not reserve any posts for PwBD-MHC and perhaps inadvertently excluded them from consideration for the majority of posts announced even under the unreserved category.

Examining the role of customer engagement in augmenting referral value

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of a customer engagement-enabling platform on a value captured by the firm and value acquired by the customer. It explores the relevance of relational and expertise value for customers during the engagement process so as to ensure positive referrals about the service provider.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of 482 students, the study examines the customer engagement efforts of professional institutes that provide training to prepare for the civil service examinations of the Union Public Service Commission. The survey is confined to central areas of New Delhi, India. Statistical techniques including confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling are used to analyse the data, and reliability and validity tests are performed.FindingsThe findings reveal the indispensable role of service providers as creators of a meaningful effective learning process and of interpersonal relations with customers for generating more business through customer referrals.Research limitations/implicationsThe study validated the moderating role of relational value between customers’ expertise value and their referrals on the basis of motivation theory, which asserts that customers’ motivation to contribute to the organisation is driven by the individuals’ extrinsic relational need for belongingness, acceptance by like-minded individuals, and feedback, recognition and respect from employees of the organisation.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the existing literature by integrating the well-developed social exchange and motivation theory so as to investigate the factors that propel customers’ positive word of mouth for the service provider.

Upsc Examination Papers on Public Administration in India

Every year, about 15,000 people take the civil service entrance examinations administered by India's Union Public Service Commission. Many choose to write optional papers on public administration. These optional papers have a significant influence in shaping the academic discipline of public administration in India, and they illustrate the current boundaries of the discipline. This research note examines the content of these optional papers over ten years, 2009 to 2018. The papers place an unusual emphasis on American theoretical literature on public administration. However, the view of American literature is outdated in important ways. There is also a significant mismatch in emphases between the theoretical and practical aspects of the papers. Although reform of the syllabi for these papers is desirable, it may be difficult in practice.

Union Public Service Commission: Among the Early Regulators

Union Public Service Commission: Among the Early Regulators

Language medium and a high-stakes test: Language ideology and coaching centers in North India

Abstract The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) offers its set of examinations in a “medium”, whether in a language recognized by the Constitution of India or in English. The notion of medium in the examination borrows from the notion of medium in schooling where it refers to the primary language of pedagogy. Although not all students who have studied in a particular medium in school and university go on to attempt the UPSC examinations in the same medium, most do. This article reports on fieldwork conducted in 2014 in coaching centers in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar and in the city of Varanasi. It traces some of the ways in which people hold ideologies about the significance of studying in one medium or another. Much ideological reflection, for example, was oriented to the fierce protesting that broke out in various locations in Delhi during the summer of 2014, just before my fieldwork. The protests were focused on changes made to the UPSC examination in 2011 which initiated increasingly poor results among Hindi-medium aspirants. The article also answers the call of scholars to consider institutional practices – especially as they change – alongside ideological reflections because, in the case of coaching centers, practice and ideology are not aligned.

M. S. Swaminathan: A Journey from the Frontiers of Life Sciences to the State of a 'Zero Hunger' World

The work resulted in varieties like ADT27, RASI, cultivated in Tamil Nadu. After six months of his stay at CRRI, MS was selected by the Union Public Service Commission and joined as Assistant Cytogeneticist in the then Botany Division of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in October 1954. Nearly a decade later, when MS became the Head of the Botany Division, he appropriately changed its name as Genetics Division. It is here that his most outstanding basic research ranging from the elucidation of the structure of the chromatid, mitosis in yeast, mechanisms of ionizing radiation and chemical mutagenesis, radio-sensitivity as a function of ploidy level, actions of low and high LET ionizing radiations on diploid and polyploid wheats, overcoming ‘diplontic selection’ in vegetatively propagated material exposed to ionizing radiation using the strategy of chronic irradiation (for which he had set up a ‘Gamma-Garden’ with 200 Curie cobalt 60 source at IARI) to Drosophila genetics and human cytogenetics by culturing human peripheral blood leucocytes for chromosome karyotyping of congenital abnormalities in syndromes gained unparalleled momentum. The original and path-breaking basic researches emerging from his laboratories in the IARI Genetics

The Union Public Service Commission and the State Public Service Commissions in India: The Case for an Institutional Linkage

The Union Public Service Commission and the State Public Service Commissions in India: The Case for an Institutional Linkage

The Union Public Service Commission

The Union Public Service Commission

Union Public Service Commission: Some Comments on Selectors and Selection Methods

Union Public Service Commission: Some Comments on Selectors and Selection Methods

Union Public Service Commission: Some Comments on Selectors and Selection Methods

Union Public Service Commission: Some Comments on Selectors and Selection Methods

The Indian Union Public Service Commission

The Indian Union Public Service Commission