Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission i.e. UPPSC released the result of the UP PCS prelims exam on 28 February, in which a total of 15,066 candidates have been shortlisted for the main examination. Even though it took more than two months to release this result, the candidates will get the benefit of it. Actually, UPPSC has increased the number of vacancies not one or two times but four times. When the commission sought applications for UP PCS Recruitment 2024 on January 1 last year, the number of vacancies was 220, but when the result of the prelims was released, the number of vacancies was stated to be 947.
A total of 5,76,154 candidates had applied for the UP PCS Prelims Exam 2024. A total of 2,43,111 candidates appeared in the first session exam and 2,41,359 candidates appeared in the second session exam. The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission had earlier decided to conduct this exam in two days, but after that the students created a ruckus alleging arbitrariness in the name of normalization.
This uproar continued for several months. During this time, the candidates also sat on a dharna and demanded that the exam be conducted in a single day. Finally, the commission had to bow down and it was decided to conduct the exam in a single day. Then the prelims exam was organized on 22 December, but due to the new rules (normalization) of UPPSC and the protests of the candidates, this exam got delayed by 10 months.
Now the candidates will have to appear in the UP PCS main examination. This examination will be of total 1500 marks, which will have 8 question papers and the duration of each examination will be three hours. The examination will be conducted in two shifts from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm. The examinations of the first question paper (General Hindi) and the second question paper (Essay) will be of 150-150 marks, while the examinations of the remaining six question papers (General Studies) will be of 200-200 marks. After this, there will be an interview of 100 marks, in which only after passing the candidate will be considered finally successful.
Under this recruitment process, UPPSC will recruit many posts in the state including Deputy Collector, DSP, Block Development Officer, Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Assistant Commissioner (Commercial Tax), District Commandant Home Guards, Treasury Officer/Accounts Officer (Treasury), Sugarcane Inspector and Assistant Sugar Commissioner, Jail Superintendent, Deputy Jailer, Assistant Labor Commissioner, Commercial Tax Officer, District Minority Welfare Officer, District Food Marketing Officer, Naib Tehsildar and Technical Assistant.
