Prep for IES & ISS

Gear up for the  Indian Economic Service/Indian Statistical Service Exam

If you wish to be placed in prestigious organizations like the planning Commission, Ministry of Economic Affairs etc, here is your chance. Gear up for the Indian Economic Service,(IES) Exam or the Indian Statistical Service,(ISS) Exam that would be conducted by the UPSC. 

What is the IES/ISS Exam?

The Indian Economic Service along with Indian Statistical Service is the administrative inter-ministerial 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 proliferation of the regulatory role of the government, such analysis and advice within the domain of the service have increased manifold. 

Indian Economic Service (IES) is an all India competitive examination conducted by UPSC to recruit group ‘A’ Officers (Includes Indian Statistical Services-ISS) to be placed in the Planning Commission, Planning Board, Ministry of Economic Affairs, and National Sample Survey and other allied offices and departments that need specialists on economics and statistics. A candidate for the Indian Economic Service must have obtained a Postgraduate degree in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/ Econometrics from a University incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India. The service conditions (pay scales, perks etc) offered by IES are similar to other Central Civil Services. The places of posting are usually in the State capitals or New Delhi.

Indian Economic Service (IES) & Indian Statistical Service (ISS) 

• Conducted by :Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) 
• Frequency : Once a year 
• Mode  Pen and paper-based (Offline)  
• Number of attempts  6
•  Duration of the examination  3 days 
• Vacancies (approximately) IES – 32 & ISS – 33  
• Test centres  19 
• Expected registrations  More than 2 lakh  

IES/ ISS Exam 2020, Important Dates:

The official notification for the Indian Economic Service (IES)/ Indian Statistical Service (ISS) will be released on March 25, 2020. Candidates can apply online between March 25 and April 13, 2020. The written examination will be held from June 26, 2020 and the interview would be in October 2020. The final result would be declared in  November 2020.

Eligibility Criteria:

A candidate must be either:a citizen of India, or (b) a subject of Nepal, or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before January 1, 1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. 

Note: Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

Educational Qualification: 

For Indian Economic Service:

A candidate for the Indian Economic Service must have obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/Econometrics from a University incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutes established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as University u/s 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or a Foreign University approved by the Central Govt. from time to time.

For  Indian Statistical Service:

A candidate for the Indian Statistical Service must have obtained a Bachelor’s Degree with Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics as one of the subject or a Master’s degree in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics from a University incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutes established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as University u/s 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or a Foreign University approved by the Central Govt. from time to time.

Age Limit :

A candidate appearing for the IES exam must have attained 21 years and have a maximum age limit of 32 years. It has some upper age relaxation for certain categories of candidates like Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe is 5 Years and other Backward Classes is 3 Years. If a candidate has ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1989, – 5 Years Up to a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area, and released as a consequence thereof.  Up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on August 1, 2018 Up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of (a) blindness & low vision, (b) deaf & hard of hearing, (c) locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy, (d) autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness, (e) multiple disabilities from amongst person under clauses (a) to (d) including deaf-blindness

Pattern and Syllabus:

Part 1: Written Exam

The written exam of 1000 marks would test  the following subjects. The maximum marks allotted to each subject/paper and the time allowed will be as follows:

[A]. Indian Economic Service