• Chairperson: Arvind Saxena (Acting)


• Founder: Parliament of the United Kingdom


• Founded: 1 October 1926


• Commission executive: Arvind Saxena, (Chairman);


• Jurisdiction: India


• Parent department: Government of India


• Union Public Service Commission is a central Agency, and it conducts exams to recruit suitable candidates.


• UPSC functions with autonomy, freedom, Higher Judiciary of India, and Election Commission.

• Indian Administrative Services


• Indian Forest Services


• Indian Police Services

• Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service


• Indian Audit and Accounts Service


• Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise)


• Indian Defence Accounts Service 8. Indian Revenue Service (I.T.)


• Indian Ordnance Factories Service (Assistant Works Manager, Administration)


• Indian Postal Service


• Indian Civil Accounts Service


• Indian Railway Traffic Service


• Indian Railway Accounts Service


• Indian Railway Personnel Service


• Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force


• Indian Defense Estates Service


• Indian Information Service (Junior Grade)


• Indian Trade Service


• Indian Corporate Law Service

• Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer′s Grade)


• Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group ‘B’


• Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group ‘B’


• Pondicherry Civil Service, Group ‘B’


• Pondicherry Police Service, Group ‘B’

• Conduct examinations for appointment to the services of the Union.


• Direct recruitment by selection through interviews.
  
• Appointment of officers on promotion / deputation / absorption.
  
• Framing and amendment of Recruitment Rules for various services and posts under the Government.
  
• Disciplinary cases relating to different Civil Services.
  
• Advising the Government on any matter referred to the Commission by the President of India.

• Administration


• All India Services


• Appointments


• Examination


• General


• Recruitment


• Recruitment Rules


• Services I


• Services II

As per Rule 6 of the Indian Forest Service (Cadre) Rules, 1966 deputation of IFS officers broadly falls into two categories:

• Central Deputation
• State Deputation

For Central Deputation, there are two schemes devised for the purpose of regulating appointments in Government of India and organizations under its control.

• Central Staffing Scheme
• Non-Central Staffing Scheme

• Officers are recruited via an open competitive examination conducted by the UPSC and then trained for about two years by the Central Government at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy.
• Their services are placed under various State cadres and joint cadres, even though they have the mandate to serve both under the State and Central Governments.

The training of IFS Officers begin with the nearly 100 days long Foundation Course at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. This is a common course for all the Group-A services’ officers recruited through the UPSC Civil Services Exam. The FC usually begins in August and ends in December. Post FC, IFS Officers move to Delhi where they undergo their Induction Training Programme at the Foreign Service Institute, Ber Sarai.
This program continues till June and includes the following-

• Introduction to different aspects of diplomacy and foreign affairs, work in the Ministry of External Affairs and in Indian missions abroad.
• Visit South Block, Jawahar Lal Nehru Bhawan, Hyderabad House, and other offices of MEA, and calling on the Ministers and Secretaries.
• Calling on the President, the Vice President, and the Prime Minister.
• Various attachments including Bharat Darshan, Embassy Attachment, State and District Attachment, and Defence Attachments.
• After the training program at FSI, they work in the Ministry for a couple of months as Under Secretary, and then move abroad for their Language Training, which is for 1–2 years (depending on the foreign language that they have chosen).