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Ira Singhal is an Indian Administrative Service officer and computer science engineer. She was the highest-scoring individual in the UPSC's Civil Services Examination for the year 2014.
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The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC; ISO: Saṁgha Loka Sevā Āyoga) is a constitutional body tasked with recruiting officers for All India Services and the Central Civil Services (Group A and B) through various standardized examinations. [1] In 2023, 1.3 million applicants competed for just 1,255 positions. [2]
He taught at department of mechanical engineering in IIT Delhi and was also the warden of Kumaon hostel. Professor Agrawal was the Chairman, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), New Delhi since 16 August 2008, prior to which he was a Member in the Union Public Service Commission since 31 October 2003.
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.
Usmani was an officer of the 1978 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. [6] Prior to appointment as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, he worked in different capacities in the government of India, including as Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister. [7]
The civil engineering department, at the railway board level, is headed by Member Infrastructure (ex officio Secretary to the Government of India) which is the highest specialized post for an IRSE officer. Theoretically, an IRSE officer is on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
In earlier years, the twelve questions were worth one point each, with no partial credit given. The competition is considered to be very difficult: it is typically attempted by students specializing in mathematics, but the median score is usually zero or one point out of 120 possible, and there have been only five perfect scores as of 2021.