UPSC IES/ISS Exam, 2021 -Information Bulletin

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Introduction

The Indian Economic Service along with Indian Statistical Service is the administrative interministerial civil service under Group A of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India. The Indian Economic Service was introduced for formulating and implementing economic policies and programmes in India. With the initiation of large-scale economic reforms in 1991 and the proliferation of the regulatory role of the government, such analysis and advice within the domain of the service have increased manifold. For Indian Statistical Service, all statistical posts of different ministries and departments were pooled together in the initial constitution of service. A combined competitive examination for recruitment to Junior Time Scale of the Services is conducted by UPSC each year. Following are the details of the Application process and Examination as per the last notification in April 2021

Important Dates

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS :

(A) Nationality
A candidate must be either:—
(a) a citizen of India; or
(b) a subject of Nepal; or
© a subject of Bhutan; or
(d) a Tibetan refugee*
(e) a person of Indian origin *
*** Please refer to the Official Notification for detailed information.**

(B) Minimum Educational Qualifications:

Fee

Vacancy for 2021
Vacancies in Junior Time Scale of the Services are given below

Note: 1 vacancy has been kept reserved for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities for Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Indian Statistical Service and no vacancy has been kept reserved for the Persons with Benchmark Disabilities for IES.

Schedule of Examination

• General English & General Studies are common to both the IES and ISS exams.
• In addition, for IES, the syllabus also contains three parts of General Economics and one part of Indian Economics. On the other hand, in ISS, the syllabus contains two parts of Statistics with only objective questions and two parts of Statistics containing only descriptive questions

** Exam Pattern**

Difficulty Level of Exam

Components of Exams common for Both Services

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

Stage-I: Written Exam

As per their eligibility, candidates will have to appear in all 6 papers of their respective discipline.

A. Indian Economic Service

B. Indian Statistical Service

Stage 2- Interview/Viva voice of 200 marks for candidates who cleared the 1st stage

The interview is intended to supplement the written examination for testing the general and specialized knowledge and abilities of the candidate. The candidate will be expected to have taken an intelligent interest not only in his/her subjects of academic study but also in events which are happening around him/her both within and outside his/her own State or Country as well as in modern currents of thought and in new discoveries which should arouse the curiosity of well-educated youth.

Syllabus

For Indian Economic Service

For Indian Statistical Service

The syllabus for papers of English and General Studies will remain the same as above.
for a detailed Syllabus of rest of the Papers for ISS, please refer to Official Notification

Important Points for Candidates

• The papers on General English and General Studies, common to both Indian Economic Service and Indian Statistical Service will be of the subjective type. All other papers of Indian Economic Service will be subjective type

• The EWS Candidate applying for IES/ISS Exam 2021 must produce an Income and Asset Certificate for F.Y.2020-2021

• If a candidate’s handwriting is not easily legible, a deduction will be made on this account, from the total marks otherwise accruing to him/her.

• Candidates will be allowed the use of Scientific (Non-Programmable type) Calculators in Descriptive Type Papers at the examination. Programmable type calculators will, however, not be allowed and the use of such calculators shall tantamount to resorting to unfair means by the candidates.

• The question papers in all subjects in Indian Economic Service Examination and in Indian Statistical Service Examination will be of Conventional (essay) type except in Statistics Paper I and Statistics Paper II which are Objective Type Papers. 3. ALL QUESTION PAPERS MUST BE ANSWERED IN ENGLISH; QUESTION PAPERS WILL BE SET IN ENGLISH ONLY.

• The Persons with Benchmark Disabilities in the categories of blindness, locomotor disability (both arm affected – BA) and cerebral palsy will be provided the facility of scribe and no one else. The details of scribe i.e. whether own or the Commission’s and the details of scribe in case candidates are bringing their own scribe, will be sought at the time of filling up the application form online

• The Persons with Benchmark Disabilities in the category of blindness, locomotor disability (both arm affected – BA) and cerebral palsy will be allowed Compensatory Time of twenty minutes per hour of the examination

Duties of an IES Officer

• Role of the service can be broadly categorized in terms of economic advice, economic administration, implementation of development policy and programs, besides dealing with other areas such as economic reforms, regulation, price fixation, and monitoring and evaluation. In the rapidly globalizing environment, decision-making is increasingly guided by economic rationality.

• IES officers are exposed to almost all the sectors of government functioning. These officers also provide link and continuity in policy-making, which is essential even for policy change.

• Responsibilities of the officers, particularly Economic Advisers, were sought to be clearly enunciated by the Cadre Controlling Authority. The Economic Advisers are required to be closely associated with and involved in the economic reforms in the Ministry/ Department to which they are posted. They would advise the concerned Ministries/ Departments, on a continuous basis, on all policy matters having a bearing on internal and external economic management, and facilitate reforms in the fields/ sectors concerned.

• The Economic Advisers would provide the Ministries/ Departments with inputs on all policy-related matters, and their economic implications. The officers could be required to monitor and evaluate the policy parameters from the economic angle laid down in the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2003, and assist the Ministry of Finance in preparing annual or any other periodical statement required for complying with the provisions of the said Act.

• To ensure that policy pursued by individual Ministries/ Departments is consistent with the overall direction of the economic policy contained in the Union budget, Five-Year Plans, etc., the Economic Advisers posted to different Ministries/ Departments would interact with the Chief Economic Adviser in the Department of Economic Affairs, on a continuous basis, and ensure that economic implications of policy changes are comprehensively analyzed, and facilitate individual Ministries/ Departments to spearhead reforms in the direction envisaged by the Government.

Salary and Allowances

The in-hand salary of an Economic Service officer/Statistical Service officer is around INR 59,750 per month. Allowances will include

• Basic Pay
• House Rent Allowance (HRA)
• Dearness Allowance (DA)
• Transport Allowance (TA)
• Conveyance allowance
• Maternity benefits.