UPSC Vacancies 2021-Category-wise and Service-wise Breakup Released

Ministry of Personnel released the service-wise and category-wise breakup of UPSC Vacancies 2021. See here for details.

UPSC vacancies were notified in the IAS notification 2021 released on March 4. 712 vacancies were notified in the official IAS notification. The actual number of vacancies for each service was not mentioned in the UPSC 2021 notification. The expected number of vacancies for the IAS and IPS are known based on the previous year's trends and the recent announcement made by the Honourable Minister of State for the Ministry of Personnel. The number of vacancies in the IAS 2020 exam is increased from the notified 796 to 836 vacancies.

The UPSC recruit around 800 to 900 candidates every year through the Civil Services exam for the two All-India Services and various Central Civil Services. The number of IAS recruited every year by UPSC is 180 and the number of vacancies for IPS was increased from 150 to 200 since 2020. The rest of the vacancies are released by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) after the completion of the exam process every year. But this was the first time that the UPSC vacancy break was released just after the release of IAS notification.

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The Ministry of Personnel released the official break-up of UPSC vacancies 2021 and 2020. These numbers are likely to be changed because the requisition received by various departments until the conduct of the UPSC Prelims exam is considered for that exam year. The candidates can see the official breakup of the vacancies in the IAS exam 2021 and 2020.

The highest number of vacancies after the IPS and IAS is for the Indian Revenue Services (Income Tax) that is 51. The vacancies for the Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service (Group B) are 46, which is the fourth-highest number.

The candidates can see the full details for the official breakup of all UPSC vacancies 2021 here.

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