Tiruchirapllai, February 26: A change of pattern in civil service entrance examinations is on the cards pending approval from the central government, a top official said.
Replacing preliminary exam with an aptitude test is one among the recommendations made by the second administrative reforms committee, D P Agarwal, Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, told reporters here yesterday.
Vacancies in civil services were being added by 10 per cent Y-o-Y and in the current year it stood at 980, he said.
Asked about distribution of vacancies, he said only in the cases of Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, and Indian Forest Service, the Union Government was making allocations to different states. As of now there were only 22 kinds of services, he said.
He was here to take part in the National Conference on Advanced Pattern Mining and Multi-media Computing organised by the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli.
–Agencies