IAS Full Form, What is Indian Administrative Service, Check all the details here

Table of Content

1. IAS Full Form
2. What is IAS?
3. How to Become an IAS?
4. IAS Eligibility Criteria
5. Salary of an IAS Officer
6. IAS Syllabus and Exam Pattern
    

IAS Full Form

What is IAS? 

1. SDM, Joint Collector, Chief Development Officer (CDO)

2. District Magistrate, District Collector or Commissioner

3. Divisional Commissioner

Along with power, there are major responsibilities that an IAS officer has to shoulder. Some of the responsibilities and duties of IAS officers are as given below:
 

• Maintaining Law and order and general administration to improve the nation's day-to-day affair
• Managing Public Sector Undertakings(PSUs)
• Handling the day-to-day affairs of the Government
• Policy formulation and policy implementation
• Overseeing public fund management

How to become an IAS? 

Salary of an IAS Officer

Pay Level	Basic Pay(INR)	Number of years required in service	Post
			District Administration	State Secretariat	Central Secretariat
10	56100	1-4	Sub-divisional magistrate	Undersecretary	Assistant Secretary
11	67,700	5-8	Additional district magistrate	Deputy Secretary	Undersecretary
12	78,800	9-12	District magistrate	Joint Secretary	Deputy Secretary
13	1,18,500	13-16	District magistrate	Special secretary-cum-director	Director
14	1,44,200	16-24	Divisional commissioner	Secretary-cum-commissioner	Joint Secretary
15	1,82,200	25-30	Divisional commissioner	Principal Secretary	Additional secretary
16	2,05,400	30-33	No Equivalent Rank	Additional Chief Secretary	No Equivalent Rank
17	2,25,000	34-36	No Equivalent Rank	Chief Secretary	Secretary
18	2,50,000	37+ years	No Equivalent Rank	No Equivalent Rank	Cabinet Secretary of India

IAS Syllabus and Exam Pattern

There are three stages in UPSC IAS Exam- Prelims, Mains and Interview/Personality Test. 
The pattern of prelims exam is as given below:

Name of the Paper	No of Questions	Topics Included (Brief)	Marks Allotted	Time Allotted
Paper I: General Studies  (Objective-type)	100	Questions from subjects like History, Polity, Geography, Science, Economy, Current Affairs are asked.	200	2 hours
Paper-II: (CSAT) (Objective-Type)	80	Questions from topics like Maths, Logical Reasoning, Reading comprehension are asked.	200	2 hours

Mains exam pattern is as follows:

Paper	Subject	Duration	Total marks	Time Allotted
Paper A	Compulsory Indian language	3 hours	300	3 hours
Paper B	English	3 hours	300	3 hours
Paper I	Essay	3 hours	250	3 hours
Paper-II	General Studies I	3 hours	250	3 hours
Paper III	General Studies II	3 hours	250	3 hours
Paper IV	General Studies III	3 hours	250	3 hours
Paper V	General Studies IV	3 hours	250	3 hours
Paper VI	Optional I	3 hours	250	3 hours
Paper VII	Optional II	3 hours	250	3 hours
Sub Total	Written Test		1750
	Personality Test		275
	Grand Total		2025

All those candidates who clear the mains stage appear for the personality test which carries a total of 275 marks. Thus IAS is a very coveted post which lakhs of aspirants aspire to achieve. However, it requires a lot of hardwork and extreme determination to get through the Civil Services Exam and serve the society by being a part of the Civil Services as an IAS- Indian Administrative Services officer.

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