UPSC CIVIL SERVICES EXAM SCHEME

Though, the exam is popularly known as IAS exam, but officially it is called the UPSC Civil Services Exam (CSE).  Here’s a complete detail about UPSC exam scheme, which will help all the civil service aspirants who dream to become IAS officers, to face the exam with right approach and attitude, appropriate guidance, selection of relevant study materials, right focus, and exact preparation strategy.

The UPSC CSE consists of 3 stages and they are Preliminary Exam, Mains Exam, and Personality Test/Interview. The UPSC calendar that consists of the exam dates is announced by the commission through UPSC notifications. Below given is the tentative calendar by timeline for the candidates reference.

1.        The IAS Preliminary exam (objective / multiple choice questions type) has two papers:

i. Paper – I (General Studies: duration – 2 hours; Marks – 200)

ii. Paper – II (Civil Services Aptitude Test duration – 2 hours; Marks – 200)

Note:

   i. The minimum qualifying marks for Paper II is 33 percent.

  ii. In both Paper I and Paper II for each wrong answer there is a negative marking of 1/3rd of the allotted marks of that question.

 2. The second stage of the civil services is IAS Mains Exam (subjective or descriptive type) and it consists a total of 9 papers which is divided as given below:

 
Essay
        English
        General Studies Paper I  (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society)
        General Studies Paper II (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)
        General Studies Paper III (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)
       General Studies Paper IV (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)
    Optional Subject Paper I
      Optional Subject Paper I
    Language Paper

For detailed UPSC exam pattern and syllabus click here  

Those, who clear UPSC Mains exam with the prescribed cut offs will be called for personality test/interview round (the third and final round) by the commission which will be held only in the UPSC Bhawan in New Delhi.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA for IAS EXAM

The candidates who apply for the UPSC Civil Services examination should ensure that they meet all the eligibility criteria

The eligibility for UPSC exam is based on the following parameters:

Nationality
Age
Education
Number of attempts

NATIONALITY:

1.       For the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS), a candidate must be a citizen of India.

2.       To know more about the eligibility criteria for other services click here

AGE & ATTEMPTs:

a. Minimum 21 years of age (as on 1st August of the year of examination).

b. The prescribed upper age limit is based on the various categories that a candidate belongs to:

1.        General Category: Maximum age – 32 years/6 attempts

2.        OBC: 35 years/9 attempts

3.        SC/ST: 37 years/ No limitation on number of attempts.

4.        Physically Disabled (Blind, Deaf, Orthopedic): 42 years

General Category: 9 attempts
OBC: 9 attempts
SC/ST: Up to age limit

5. J & K Domicile:  

General Category: 37 years
OBC: 40 years
SC/ST: 42 years
PH: 50 years

For detailed eligibility criteria click here .

       

Academic Eligibility for Civil Services IAS Exams

The candidate must hold a degree of any University that is recognized by the state or central government.
A degree received through Correspondence Education or Distance Education.
A degree from an Open University.
A qualification recognized by the Government of India as being equivalent to either of the above.
Candidates who have given their final year graduation exam/ waiting for the results can also apply for this  exam (but they will be required to produce proof of passing the graduation exam) before the final selection process.

UPSC Online Application Procedure

The application procedure for UPSC civil services examination has been entirely made online at the preliminary level and UPSC e-admit cards are issued which candidates appearing for IAS exam should download from the UPSC official website.

The candidates applying for the IAS Exam should make sure that they satisfy all the eligibility criteria for admission to the examination. The candidates’ admission to all the stages of the examination will be only conditional subject to fulfil the above-mentioned eligibility conditions. With the issue of admission certificate to a candidate does not indicate that the candidate’s application has been finally accepted by the Commission. As the Commission takes up verification of eligibility criteria with the reference to the original documents only when a candidate qualifies the final round that is the Interview/Personality Test.

UPSC 2016 Vacancies

In the latest notification released by the UPSC, the number of vacancies to be filled after the result of the UPSC Civil Services Examination is likely to be around 1079 and this includes the reservation for P.H. Category which would be 34. The final number of vacancies may be changed subsequently receiving the fixed number of vacancies from Cadre Controlling Authorities. Reservation will be made for candidates who belong to different categories like Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), and Physically Disabled depending on the number of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.

Now that the exam process is made transparent to you, all you have to do is to prepare for the IAS exam. For more information on UPSC exam and tips on preparation strategies, click the below links.

KNOWLEDGE POINT

Computer Abbreviation Terms

Abbreviations Full Terms

AAA Authentication Authorization Accounting

ABR Area Border Router

ACK ACKnowledgement

AD Active Directory

AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive

AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

ALGOL Algorithmic Language

ALU Arithmetic and Logical Unit

ANSI American National Standards Institute

APCI Application-Layer Protocol Control

Information

API Application Programming Interface

APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt

Controller

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency

Network

ASCII American Standard Code for Information

Interchange

ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

ASR Asynchronous Signal Routine

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AVI Audio Video Interleaved

B2B Business-to-Business

B2C Business-to-Consumer

BAL Basic Assembly Language

BASIC Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic

Instruction Code

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BIOS Basic Input Output System

BMP Basic Multilingual Plane

BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol

CA Certificate Authority

CAD Computer-Aided Design

CD Compact Disc

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CD-ROM CD Read-Only Memory

CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication

Protocol

CLI Command Line Interface

CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide

Semiconductor

COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language

CPU Central Processing Unit

DAT Digital Audio Tape

DB Database

DBA Database Administrator

DBMS Database Management System

DDL Data Definition Language

DFD Data Flow Diagram

DIVX Digital Video Express

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DMA Direct Memory Access

DMI Direct Media Interface

DNS Domain Name System

DOS Disk Operating System

DPI Dots Per Inch

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DVD Digital Video Disc

EEPROM Electronically Erasable Programmable

Read-Only Memory

EGA Enhanced Graphics Array

EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing

Protocol

EMACS Editor MACroS

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only

Memory

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

FAT File Allocation Table

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDMA Frequency-Division Multiple Access

FIFO First In First Out

FS File System

FSCK File System Check

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIS Geographic Information System

GNOME GNU Network Object Model

Environment

GSM Global System for Mobile

Communications

GUI Graphical User Interface

HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer

HDD Hard Disk Drive

HCL Hardware Compatibility List

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HTM Hierarchical Temporal Memory

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IC Integrated Circuit

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICP Internet Cache Protocol

IE Internet Explorer

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

IIS Internet Information Services

IM Instant Messaging

IP Internet Protocol

IPsec Internet Protocol security

IRQ Interrupt Request

IS Information Systems

iSCSI Internet Small Computer System

Interface

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO International Organization for

Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure

Library

IVRS Interactive Voice Response System

J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition

JMX Java Management Extensions

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

KVM Keyboard, Video, Mouse

L2TP Layer two Tunneling Protocol

LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LED Light-Emitting Diode

LIFO Last In First Out

MAC Media Access Control

MAN Metropolitan Area Network

MAPI Messaging Application Programming

Interface

MBR Master Boot Record

MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MIS Management Information Systems

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MMU Memory Management Unit

MPEG Motion Pictures Experts Group

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching

MTU Maximum Transmission Unit

NAS Network-Attached Storage

NAT Network Address Translation

NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System

NFS Network File System

NIC Network Interface Controller

NLP Natural Language Processing

NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol

NTP Network Time Protocol

ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity

OMR Optical Mark Recognition

OS Operating System

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OSPF Open Shortest Path First

PC Personal Computer

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PDF Portable Document Format

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PoE Power over Ethernet

POST Power-On Self Test

PXE Preboot Execution Environment

RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User

Service

RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM Random Access Memory

RDBMS Relational Database Management System

RDC Remote Desktop Connection

RF Radio Frequency

RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RIP Routing Information Protocol

ROM Read Only Memory

SAN Storage Area Network

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SDK Software Development Kit

SEO Search Engine Optimization

SIP Session Initiation Protocol

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol

SOHO Small Office/Home Office

SQL Structured Query Language

SSH Secure Shell

SWF Shock Wave Flash

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet

Protocol

TFT Thin Film Transistor

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TTL Time To Live

UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and

Integration

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UNC Universal Naming Convention

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

UUID Universally Unique Identifier

VGA Video Graphics Adapter

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VNC Virtual Network Computing

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

VPN Virtual Private Network

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

WAN Wide Area Network

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for

Microwave Access

WINS Windows Internet Name Service

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WMV Windows Media Video

WWW World Wide Web

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

XHTML eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language

XML eXtensible Markup Language

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Asian city to host Olympics Tokyo, Japan, 1964

Athlete disqualified at the Olympics for

drug use

Hans-Gunnar Lijenwall, Mexico

Olympics, 1968

Blind person to conquer the Everest Erik Weihenmayer, USA, 2001

Cricket Club Cricket club founded in

Hambledon, England

Country to Print Books China

Country to issue paper currency China

Country to start Civil Service

Competition

China

Country to make education compulsory Prussia

Country to win World Cup football Uruguay

Country to make a constitution USA

Country to Organize NAM Summit Belgrade

Country to send human to Moon USA

Country to launch satellite into space Russia

Country to host modern Olympics Greece

Country to launch Radio Telescope

Satellite into space

Japan

European to visit China Marco Polo

Man to climb Mt Everest Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary,

1953

Man to reach North Pole Robert Peary

Man to reach South Pole Ronald Amundsen

Man to Fly an aeroplan Wright Brothers

Man to sail around the World Ferdinand Magellan

Man to set foot on the Moon Neil Armstrong

Man to go to the space Major Yuri Gagarin

Man to draw the map of Earth Anexemander

Man to compile Encyclopedia Aspheosis

Man to win Nobel Prize in Literature Rene FA and Silt Pradhom

Man to win Nobel Prize in Peace Jin F Dunant nad Frederic Peiry

Man to win Nobel Prize in Physics WK Roentgen

Man to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry JH Wenthoff

Man to win Nobel Prize in Medicine AE Wonn Behring

Man to win Nobel Prize in Economics Ranger Fish and John Tinbergen

Man to sail around the World alone Joshua Slocum

Man tourist in Space Dennis Tito

Man to have climbed Mount Everest

Twice

Nawang Gombu

Man Oscar winner for the Best Actor Emil Jannings, 1928

Man to win Tour de France Maurice Garin, 1903

Man boxing champion Tim Hyer, 1841

Man chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz, 1886

Man to walk in space Alexei Arkhovich Leonov, 1965

Man heart transplant was per formed by Dr. Christian Barnard, 1967

Man heart transplant recipient Louis Washkansky, 1967

Man to fly solo non stop across the

Atlantic

Charles Lindbergh, 1927

Man to swim across the English Channel Matthew Webb, 1875

Man to fly solo nonstop around the

world in ballon

Steve Fossett, U.S., 2002

Man to cross the Pacific Ocean in hot

air balloon

Ben Abruzzo and team in the Double

Eagle V

Movie in the world The jazz Singer , 1927

Parkinson’s disease was first described

by

James Parkinson, British neurologist,

1817

Religion of the world Santosh Dharma

Recipient of a permanent artificial heart Barney Clark, 1982

Secretary General of UN Trigve Li

Space shuttle launched Colombia

Space ship landed on Moon Viking-1

Space vehicle to land on the moon Lunar Exploration Module (LEM)

Woman tourist in Space Mrs Anousheh Ansari

Woman civilian police adviser of the

U.N.

Kiran Bedi

Woman Bishop Rev Barbara C. Harris (USA)

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Literature Selma Lagerlöf

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Peace Bertha von Suttner

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Physics Marie Curie-Skłodowska

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry Marie Curie-Skłodowska

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Medicine Gerty Theresa Cori

Woman to win Nobel Prize in

Economics

Elinor Ostrom

Woman Prime Minister of a Country S Bhandarnayake

Woman Cosmonaut in Space Valentina Tereshkova, USSR

Woman to Climb Mt. Everest Juno Tabei, Japan

Woman President of UN General

assembly

Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Woman to reach North Pole Mrs Fran Phipps

Woman to reach Antartica Caroline Michaelson

Woman President of a Country Maria Estela Peron

Woman to sail around the world alone Kat Cotte

Woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles,

1900

Woman professional bullfighter Patricia Mccormick, 1952

Women’s Olympic marathon Champion Joan Benoit, Los Angles, 1984

Woman to Climb Mt. Everest twice Santosh Yadav

Woman Oscar winner for Best Actress Janet Gaynor, 1928

Woman black tennis player to win a

singles title at Wimbledon

A Gibson, 1957

Woman to win a Grand Slam Maureen Catherine, 1953

Woman to swim the English Channel Gertrude Ederle, 1926

Woman to set foot on North Pole Ann Bancroft, USA, 1986

University of the world Taxila University

⇒Inventions and Inventors

List

What                          Who            When Country

Automatic calculator Wilhelm Schickard 1623 Germany
Adding machine Blaise Pascal 1642 France
Animation Emile Reynaud 1892 France
Aspirin Dr. Felix Hoffman 1899 Germany
Antiseptic Dr. Joseph Lister 1867 England
Atom Bomb Julius Robert Oppenheimer 1945 U.S
Barometer Evangelista Torricelli 1643 ITALY
Ballpoint Pen László Bíró 1938 France
Bifocal Lens Benjamin Franklin 1784 U.S
Cement Joseph Aspdin 1824 England
Cadmium Friedrich Stromeyer 1817 Germany
Clarinet Johann Christoph Denner 1690 Germany
Cash register James Ritty 1879 USA
Cinema Lumiere brothers 1894 France
Dental Plate Anthony A. Plantson 1817 U.S
Diesel Engine Rudolf Diesel 1895 Germany
Dynamite Alfred B. Nobel 1867 Sweden
Electronic calculator IBM 1954 USA
Electric stove/cooker William S. Hadaway 1896 USA
Electric Battery Volta 1800 Italian
Electric Generator Michael Faraday 1831 UK
Electric Lamp Thomas Alva Edison 1879 U.S
Electromagnet William Sturgeon 1824 England
Elevator Elisha G. Otis 1852 U.S
Fountain Pen Lewis Edson Waterman 1884 U.S
Gramophone Thomas Edison 1878 U.S
Gyrocompass Elmer A. Sperry 1908 U.S
Hot air balloon Josef and Etienne Montgolfier 1783 France
Helicopter Igor Sikorsky 1939 Russia
Jet Engine Hans Von Ohain 1936 Germany
Light bulb Heinrich Goebel 1854 Germany
Lightning Conductor Benjamin Franklin 1752 U.S
Microwave oven Percy Spencer 1947 USA
Machine Gun Richard Gaffing 1861 U.S
Motor Scooter Greville Bradshaw 1919 England
Microscope Zacharis Janssen 1590 Netherlands
Pacemaker Dr. Paul Zoll 1952 USA
Pocket watch Peter Henlein 1510 Germany
Pendulum clock Christiaan Huygens 1657 Netherlands
Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 1700 Italy
Parachute Jean Pierre Blanchard 1785 France
Revolver Samuel Colt 1835 U.S
Small Pox Vaccine Edward Jenner 1796 England
Steam engine Thomas Savery 1698 UK
Steam boat John Fitch 1786 USA
Saxophone Adolphe Sax 1846 Belgium
Steam-powered airship Henri Giffard 1852 France
Soft contact lenses Otto Wichterle 1961 Czech
Stethoscope René Laennec 1816 France
Submarine David Bushnell 1776 U.S
Synthesizer Dr. Robert Arthur Moog 1964 U.S
Telegraph Samuel Morse 1844 USA
Telephone Scott Alexander Graham Bell 1874 Canada
Time Recorder Harlow Bundy 1890 U.S
Typewriter Peter Mitterhofer 1864 Austria
Vaccination Dr. Edward Jenner 1796 England
Vacuum Cleaner Ives McGaffey 1869 U.S
X-ray Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 1895 Germany

Computer World Info

• Konrad Zuse invented the World’s first
computer was named as the Z1 in 1936.
It was the First freely programmable
computer.
• The first computer game was
“Spacewar!". This game was
programmed by Steve Russell and first
released in February 1962.
• Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce develop the
first Integrated Circuit (The Chip) in
1958.
• In 1954 John Backus & IBM develop
first successful high level programming
language FORTRAN Computer
Programming Language.
• ARPAnet the first Internet connectivity
started in 1969.
• WordStar Software is the first release
of Word Processors application
developed by Seymour Rubenstein &
Rob Barnaby in 1979.
• Apple Lisa Computer is the first home
computer with a GUI (graphical user
interface) in 1983.
• The first web browser was invented by
Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. It was
called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and
was later renamed Nexus.
• The first search engine created was
Archie, in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a
student of McGill University in
Montreal.
• On Aug. 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee
published the first internet site (http://
www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/
hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html) from
CERN, the world’s largest physics lab in
Geneva, Switzerland.
• The first supercomputer was the
Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600
with a single CPU. It was released in
1964.
• India's first supercomputer is PARAM
8000, which was installed in 1991.
• NVIDIA's Tesla computer was launched
in London in December 2008 is first
personal supercomputer.
• The first banner advertising was used
in 1994.
• The E-mail is older than the World
Wide Web.
• The first domain name ever registered
was Symbolics.com.
• Rich Skrenta generated the first
computer virus in February 1982. He is
the author of Elk Cloner, the first
computer virus to be released outside of
the lab.
• The first version of Excel was released
for the Mac in 1985 and the first
Windows version was released in
November 1987.
• Nobody can create a folder named
“Con” in windows system.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that
can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
• Each Excel worksheet holds 1,048,576
rows and 16, 384 columns which makes
17,179,869,184 cells per worksheet.
• Up to last 100 actions can be undo in
excel.

ABOUT THE EXAM

 HOW TO PREPARE FOR IAS EXAM AT SCHOOL
LEVEL- UPSC PREPARATION

As I have told you that this initial stage is
your decision taking stage. You need to
make it clear that your task is only IAS
exam preparation and nothing else. Try to
believe yourself that Yes You Can. After this,
never let your confidence gets down
because it will be needed at different level
or in hurdles IAS exam.

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After making your dream clear and believing
yourself, start your IAS exam preparation by
managing your time according to school or
tuition classes. Try to manage your time
accordingly that you can give at least 1
hour to conceptual study. Managing your
time for study will always be going to help
you.

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Always focus on the concept of the topic,
never cram your subjects. Don’t try to be
the master but get the concept very well.
Try to prepare for exams using NCERT
books. NCERT books are supposed as the
best source for study in IAS exam. So try to
read them according to the concept given.

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Class notes will help you in your board
exam to quickly revise the whole syllabus.
Same thing is with IAS exam preparation.
There are many benefits of making notes
that will surely help you in IAS exam. With
class notes you can always remind the main
points of the concept. Notes will make your
remember main topics for a long time. So
always make class notes.

Is IAS exam like a career risk

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Candidates preparing for
IAS exam are considered as Ignorant and
time waster in India. It is supposed that
they have nothing to do and that is why
they are just passing their time by saying ‘I
am preparing for IAS exam’. Reason Being
IAS exam is toughest exam of INDIA. IAS
exam has become a biggest risk of career
for many aspirants these days.
Now do you really think that you have taken
a big risk of your career? I know many of us
think about it before we start preparation for
IAS exam. And few of us start thinking
about it after our first or second attempt. I
request you all to think about it again that
why you have chosen IAS as your dream. I
am giving you some reasons that why IAS
exam is not like a risk for your career and
please start UPSC preparation again.
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things are never easy???
Whether you want to climb on the Mountain
Everest, want to be richest person on the
planet or want to be an IAS, these all
valuable things and positions are not easy
to earn. You need to put your dedication,
passion and awareness into them. Preparing
for IAS- UPSC exam is same because if you
get success then you will be given more
benefits and powers by this IAS position. So
your path will not be easy but still it will be
interesting.

Who deserves UPSC –Easy

UPSC-IAS exam is an easy game for all
those aspirants who are having these
qualities.
Dedicated and Smart worker
The deserving candidates of IAS exam are
dedicated to their work. They are so
dedicated that they never think about what
other people thinks about them. They work
smartly for success in the civil exams. They
make a proper strategy to crack IAS exam .
They work according to the time table with
deadlines. They deserve UPSC-IAS exam
and never complains about the tough
pattern of exam.
Passion and love about what they do
Whatever the field you choose to work, it is
your passion and love about your work that
will make you succeeded. Same case is
there in UPSC-IAS exam. There is a famous
quote for love and passion
Love what you do and Do what you love.
Many candidates say that they will feel
bored when they start study. No my dear,
IAS exam is all about your love with your
subjects.
Focus Intensity and Loyalty of Efforts
Try to burn a paper with sun light using
lens; it will not get burnt out if you don’t
make the light focused on the paper.
Success in IAS exam is also the result of
focus. Try to focus on the exam and be
aware of everything what you learn. Be loyal
and regular , try to always speak truth, this
will change your whole life too.

Who don’t deserve UPSC- Difficult

There are many aspirants who will say you
that UPSC-IAS exam is the toughest exam
in the world. They all fall under this
category. UPSC-IAS exam is always tough
for all those aspirants who are having these
qualities.
Ignorer
There are many aspirants who know the
standard of IAS exam but they are not
serious about their effort. They always
ignore everything about the advancement of
this exam. They only say,” Leave it friends,
we will do it tomorrow”. Yes for sure UPSC-
IAS exam is difficult for them.
Also Read: How to overcome job search
depression?
Undisciplined
There few aspirants who study 10-12 hours
in a day and leave their preparation for rest
of the week. And after one week they start
the same procedure. My friend this strategy
is not going to work in IAS exam. Discipline
is needed the most if you want to go into
the depth of any subject. You need to study
regularly to know the concept. Discipline is
a thumb rule to prepare for all types of
competition exams.
Person with negative thinking
I have seen many candidates who never
smile. They look always upset and talk less
even with their family members. They are
the persons with negative attitude. They
think that their life is over and there is
nothing left for them. Try to be positive all
the time, because it’s your motivation that
will put fuel in your engine to work more
and more.
It was all about “Is UPSC-IAS exam very
tough or easy- UPSC Preparation Tips?” I
hope you enjoyed reading this whole article.
If you feel any problem regarding this topic
and you want to add few more points then
hit comments button so that we can polish
us too.

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The UPSC Interview test for IAS/Civil Services
Exam is the third and final lap of a three part
process to evaluate the administrative potential of
the candidates in order to find their suitability for
joining one of the Civil Services.
Areas normally covered by the UPSC Interview
Board are
(a) Every detail in the application form
including the meaning of you surname
(b) Current issues of interest primarily national
(c) Good Knowledge of one’s own state and
district
(d) Whenever required, you may have to bring
into focus the knowledge of your own
specialised field of study while taking on current
problems
(e) Also be prepared for probing question on
your own special field of study including the
papers that you have offered for main
Examination only the fundamentals of the
subjects studied: momentous developments of
today and a lively panoramic grasp of the
optional subject.
Last but not the last, a since and time tested
advice to the IAS aspirants is that there is no
substitute to hard work. A strong determination
and patience shall sail you through. One should
never fell diminished by failures but instead
should intensify the preparations more
vigorously. Rage like a river which flows faster&
more furious after dealing with very obstacle that
comes in its way. The sum of IAS success
formula is Grit, Grace& Poise even under stress.
So roll up your sleeves, take a deep breath &
start the work.



ʜOW MAɴY ATTEMPTS ɪɴ ɪAS?

The Department of Personnel and Training has
clarified the number of attempts and age limits
for different categories for the UPSC IAS Exam.
For General Category candidates, the new age
limit is 32 years and the number of attempts is
06.
For OBC Category candidates, the new age limit
is 35 years and the number of attempts is 09.
For SC/SC Category candidates, the new age limit
is 37 years while the number of attempts
unlimited.
For Physically Handicapped candidates, age limit
is 42, 45 and 47 years for General, OBC and SC/
ST category respectively while the number of
attempts is 09 for General and OBC and unlimited
for SC/SC category.

 UPSC – IAS examination is conducted in three
phases:

Phase 1: Preliminary Examination or CSAT
(Objective Section )
Phase 2: Main Examination (Subjective Section)
Phase 3: Interview (Vocal Section)

 Phase 1: Preliminary Examination – CSAT
Syllabus :
CSAT or Civil Services Aptitude Test is the
Preliminary examination of UPSC, it test the
aptitude of examinee to tackle Reasoning and
Analytical questions. Consist of two papers, each
of 200 marks and two hours of duration and it is
compulsory to appear in both.
It is an Objective section, and every wrong
attempt will cost you 1/3 marks of the
attempted question.
CSAT is just a screening test, thus the marks
obtained will not be entertained in your final
merit.
Syllabus for Paper 1:
Current events (National and International)
History of India
Geography of the world (Physical, Social,
Economic)
Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution
Economic and Social Development
General Issues (Environmental Ecology,
Bio-Diversity, Climate change etcs.)
General Science
Syllabus for Paper 2:
Comprehension
Interpersonal Skills
Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability
Decision making and problem solving
General mental ability
Basic Numeracy
Data Interpretation
Comprehension Skill (English)

 Phase 2: Main Examination Syllabus (1750
Marks) :
This phase will test your academic and intellectual
talent in depth. It consists of 9 papers, in which
two are qualifying papers of 300 marks each:
I. Any Indian Language
II. English
These two papers just need to qualify which is
mandatory and marks obtained will not be
considered or counted.
Language for the rest seven papers can be any of
the languages mentioned in Eighth Schedule of the
constitution or you can opt for English. Rest
seven papers are mentioned below, each weighing
250 marks:
III. Essay
IV. General Studies 1 (Indian Heritage/Culture,
World History & Geography)
V. General Studies 2 (Governance, Constitution,
Polity, Social Justice and International Relations)
VI. General Studies 3 (Technology, Economic
Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security
& Disaster Management)
1. General Studies 4 (Ethics, Integrity &
Aptitude)
2. Optional 1 (Of your choice)
VII. Optional 2 (Of your choice)
These are the optional subjects from which you
can choose your preference:
Agriculture
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
Botany
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Commerce
Economics
Electrical Engineering
Geography
Geology
Indian History
Law
Management
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Science
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Public Administration
Sociology
Statistics
Zoology
Anthropology
Assamese
Bengali
Chinese
English
French
German
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
Konkani
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
Russian
Sanskrit
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
You can take literature as your optional one even
if you had not done degree in that.

 Phase 3: Interview and Personality Test (275
Marks)
This phase is totally vocal one and candidates are
provided with the option to choose their desired
medium of communication.

knowing about india(general knowledge)

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>MP's Health Campaign - Madhuri Dixit
>Haryana's " Beti Bachao- Beti Padhao " -
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>Renault India - Ranbir Kapoor
>DD Kisan TV - Amitabh Bachchan
>Maharashtra's Tiger Ambassador -
Amitabh Bachchan & Sachin Tendulkar.
>Yami Gautam - Fair n lovely
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>North East- Mary Com
>UC Browser- Yuvraj Singh.


First Indian woman

•President of India ----------- Pratibha
Patil, 2007
• Prime Minister of India ----------- Indira
Gandhi, 1966
• Central Minister in a government
----------- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• Railway Minister of India -----------
Mamata Banerjee
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha -----------
Meira Kumar
• Chairperson of Rajya Sabha -----------
Violet Alva
• Governor ----------- Sarojini Naidu, Uttar
Pradesh (1947–1949)
• Chief Minister ----------- Sucheta
Kripalani, Uttar Pradesh (1963–1967)
• Speaker of State Assembly -----------
Mrs. Shano Devi
• Nominated member of the Rajya Sabha
----------- Rukmini Devi Arundale
• Nobel Prize ----------- Mother Teresa
• Bharat Ratna ----------- Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of a High Court -----------
Leila Seth, 1991 (Himachal Pradesh)
• Supreme Court judge ----------- Kumari
Fathima Beevi
• High Court Judge ----------- Anna
Chandy
• Lawyer ----------- Cornelia Sorabji, 1892
• Honours Graduate ----------- Kamini
Roy, 1886
• Graduates ----------- Kadambini Ganguly
and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• Doctorate of Science ----------- Asima
Chatterjee, 1944
• Director General of Police -----------
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
• IPS Officer ----------- Kiran Bedi
• IAS officer ----------- Anna Rajan George,
1950
• Indian National Congress President
----------- Annie Besant
• Chairperson of State Bank of India
----------- Arundhati Bhattacharya
• Chairman of UPSC ----------- Roze
Millian Bethew
• Chairperson of Indian Airlines -----------
Sushma Chawla
• President of Indian Science Congress
----------- Dr. Ashima Chatterjee
• Woman Ambassador ----------- C.B.
Muthamma
• Mount Everest ----------- Bachendri Pal,
1984
• In space ----------- Kalpana Chawla
• Airline Pilot ----------- Durba Banerjee
• Gold Medal in Asian Games -----------
Kamaljeet Sandhu, 1970
• Magasasay Award ----------- Kamladevi
Chattopadhyay
• Miss Universe ----------- Sushmita Sen
• Miss World ----------- Rita Faria
• To Climb Mount Everest twice -----------
Santosh Yadav
• Jnanpith Award ----------- Ashapurna
Devi
• Booker Prize ----------- Arundhati Roy
• Sahitya Akademi Award -----------
Amrita Pritam
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna -----------
Karnam Malleswari
• WTA Title ----------- Sania Mirza
• Lieutenent General ----------- Puneeta
Arora
• Vice admiral of Indian Navy -----------
Puneeta Arora
• Ashoka Chakra ----------- Nirja Bhanot
• Commercial Pilot ----------- Prem Mathur
• Woman to qualify for Olympic Games
----------- Sini Abrahim
• Cross Gobi Desert ----------- Sucheta
Kadethankar
• Pilot in Indian Air Force -----------
Harita Kaur Deol
• Grand Slam junior title ----------- Sania
Mirza, 2003 Wimbledon Championships
• Chess Grandmaster ----------- Koneru
Humpy, 2002
• Member of Legion of Honour -----------
Asha Pande
• Monarch of Delhi Sultanate -----------
Razia Sultan
• To cross English Channel ----------- Aarti
Saha
• Physician ----------- Kadambini Ganguly
• President of the UN General Assembly
----------- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953
• Air Vice Marshal ----------- Padmavathy
Bandopadhyay
• Head a Navratna PSU company
----------- Nishi Vasudeva
• External Affairs Minister -----------
Sushma Swaraj
• Women's Doubles Grand Slam trophy
----------- Sania Mirza
• Gymnast to qualify for Olympics
----------- Dipa Karmakar

ɪɴDɪAɴ AWAʀD WɪɴɴEʀ...

Ø Ashoka Chakra --------- Naik Nar
Bahadur Thapa, Havildar Bachittar Singh,
Flt Lt Suhas Biswas, 1952
Ø Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian
--------- D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C
Dixit
Ø Bharat Ratna --------- Dr. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and
C. V. Raman, 1954
Ø Commandeur of the Order of Arts and
Letters --------- Mrinal Sen
Ø Chevalier of the Order of Arts and
Letters --------- Sivaji Ganesan
Ø Dadasaheb Phalke Award --------- Devika
Rani, 1969
Ø Duff Cooper --------- Nirad C. Chaudhuri,
1966
Ø Dronacharya Award --------- O.M.
Nambiar , Om Prakash Bhardwaj ,
Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat , 1985
Ø Dr. B. C. Roy Award --------- Dr. J. G.
Jolly, 1981
Ø Golden Globe Award --------- A R
Rahman, 2009
Ø Grammy Award --------- Pandit
Ravishankar, 1967
Ø Jamnalal Bajaj Award --------- Jugatram
Dave, Satish Chandra Das Gupta, 1978
Ø Jnanpith Award --------- G. Sankara
Kurup, 1965
Ø Kamal Kumari National Award ---------
Sobha Brahma, 1991
Ø Man Booker Prize --------- Arundhati
Roy, 1997
Ø Miss World --------- Reita Faria, 1966
Ø Miss Asia Pacific --------- Zeenat Aman,
1970
Ø Miss Universe --------- Sushmita Sen,
1994
Ø Mrs. World --------- Aditi Gowitrikar,
2001
Ø Miss Earth --------- Nicole Faria, 2010
Ø Miss Asia Pacific World ---------
Himangini Singh Yadu, 2012
Ø Nishan-e-Pakistan --------- Morarji Desai,
1990
Ø Nobel Prize Winner ---------
Rabindranath Tagore, 1913
Ø Newbery Medal --------- Dhan Gopal
Mukerji, 1927
Ø Magsaysay Award --------- Vinoba Bhave,
1958
Ø Oscar for Lifetime Achievement ---------
Satyajit Ray
Ø Oscar Award --------- Bhanu Authaia ,
1982
Ø Olympic Medal --------- Khashaba Jadav,
1952
Ø Param Vir Chakra --------- Major Som
Nath Sharma, 1947
Ø Padma Vibhushan --------- Satyendra
Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir
Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher,
Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna
Menon in 1954
Ø Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna ---------
Viswanathan Anand, 1991-92
Ø Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award --------- Dr
Pushkarnath, 1968
Ø Rabindra Puraskar --------- Satinath
Bhaduri and Niharranjan Ray, 1950
Ø Stalin Peace Prize --------- Saifuddin
Kitchlew, 1952
Ø Woman to win Gold Medal in Sports
--------- Kamaljeet Sandhu, 1970

Things to Know about India...
• Fundamental Rights to Indian Citizens
-> Right to Equality
-> Right to Freedom
-> Right against Exploitation
-> Right to Freedom of Religion
-> Cultural and Educational Rights
-> Right to Constitutional Remedies
• The Constitution of India containing
448 articles in 22 parts, 12 schedules
and 118 amendments.
• Ashok Stambh, the National Emblem
of India has four Asiatic lions standing
back to back. It symbolizing power,
courage, pride, and confidence. Below
the four lions, an elephant (of the east),
a horse (of the south), a bull (of the
west), and a lion (of the north). The
animals are separated by wheels known
as Dharma Chakras. The four animals
were originally supposed to represent
the four stages in the life of the
Buddha.
• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy is the only
person to be elected to the office of the
President of India unopposed.
• At 64year, 67 days, Neelam Sanjiva
Reddy became the youngest ever person
to be elected as President of India.
• Rajiv Gandhi at the age of 40 years, 72
days became the youngest Prime
Minister of India.
• India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan was
designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
• Amar Jawan Jyoti was inaugurated by
Mrs Indira Gandhi on 23rd republic day
after India-Pakistan War.
• Rashtrapati Bhavan has 4 floors and
360 rooms.
• President Sukarno , Indonesia was the
first chief guest in Indian Republic Day,
1950.
• The Madras Regiment is the oldest
exiting regiment in the Indian army
formed in the 1750s.
• Ashoka Chakra has 24 spokes.
• In the National Flag of India, the
saffron color represents courage and
sacrifice; white color represent truth,
peace and purity; green color represent
prosperity and the Ashok Chakra
represents the Laws of Dharma.
• Everest is named after Sir George
Everest, a Welsh surveyor, geographer
and Surveyor-General of India from 1830
to 1843.
• The highest post office in the world is
in Hikkim, Himachal Pradesh, India at a
height of 15,500 ft (4,700 m) (postal
code 172114).
• Kumbh Mela held every third year at
one of the four places by rotation:
Haridwar, Allahabad, Nasik and Ujjain.
• Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest
cover in India at 77,700 square km.
• Uttar Pradesh (35,148,377) has the
largest Scheduled Caste population.
• Uttar Pradesh is the state with
maximum number of districts in India.
It has a total of 70 districts.
• Kachchh, Gujarat is the largest Districts
of India by Territorial Area 45652 sq.
km.
• India Gate is 42-metre tall.
• Rajiv Gandhi was the first Occupants
of 7, Race Course Road the official
residence of the Prime Minister of India.
• Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling
is the longest-serving Chief Minister of
any state of India, served as the Chief
Minister of Sikkim for more than 20
years.
• Ganga is the longest and Brahmaputra
is the widest river in India.


 BANKS AND THEIR HEADQUARTERS
== == == == == == == == ==
[1] Allahabad Bank - Kolkata
[2] Andhra Bank - Hyderabad
[3] Bank of Baroda - Vadodara (Baroda)
[4] Bank of India - Mumbai
[5] Bank of Maharashtra - Pune
[6] Bharatiya Mahila Bank - New Delhi
[7] Canara Bank - Bengaluru
[8] Central Bank of India - Mumbai
[9] Corporation Bank - Mangalore
[10] Dena Bank - Mumbai
[11] Indian Bank - Chennai
[12] Indian Overseas Bank - Chennai
[13] Oriental Bank of Commerce - Gurgaon
[14] Punjab and Sindh Bank - New Delhi
[15] Punjab National Bank - New Delhi
[16] State Bank of India - Mumbai
[17] Syndicate Bank - Manipal
[18] Union Bank of India - Mumbai
[19] United Bank of India - Kolkata
[20] UCO Bank - Kolkata
[21] Vijaya Bank - Bangalore



1.Who is the present Union Railway minister?
Answer: Suresh Prabhu
2. The venue for 2016 SAARC summit (19th) ?
Answer: Islamabad (Pakistan)
3. Venue for 2016 Olympics ?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4. UN Observes 2016 as ____?
Answer: International Year of Pulses
5.Who won the 2016 FIFA Ballon d'Or award
( player of the year )?
Answer: Lionel Messi
6. Who won 2016 FIFA Women's World Player of
the Year ?
Answer: Carli Lloyd (USA)
7 . Who was recently appointed as Chairman of
Competition Commission of India?
Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri
8. What is the full form for ASBA that was
recently in news ?
Answer: Application Supported by Blocked
Amount (Introduced by SEBI for applying to IPO
- initial public offers )
*9. Who will be the chief guest at 2016
Republic day parade ?
Answer: French President Francois Hollande
*10.Who is the First Lady chief minister in
jammu and kashmir ?
Answer: Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed
*11. First railway university will be in which
state?
Answer: Gujarath( Vadodra )
12. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog
( National Institution for Transforming India)?
Answer : Arvind Panagariya
13. which is the 29th state of india ?
Answer: Telangana
14. Which state moving it's capital to
"Amaravati" ?
Answer: Andhra pradesh
*15. Which is the First Digital state in India ?
Answer: Kerala
16 First Digital district in India ?
Answer: Idukki(Kerala)


Some Interesting Facts about Rivers of India:
Given below are some interesting facts about the Indian Rivers. Many of the rivers of India are famous around the world for some specific reasons.
These information are about the rivers are given to help you understand the India River Map better.

Longest River in India Brahmapurta River (2,850 Kms)
Second Longest River in India Ganga (Ganges - 2,507 Kms)
Volume of Water carried by Indian Rivers 1683000 million cubic meters per year
Major Himalayan Rivers Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra
Major Peninsular Rivers Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery, Pennar, Mahanadi
Type of Indian Rivers Snow fed Rivers (North Indian Rivers) and Rain fed rivers (South Indian Rivers)

Highest,Longest,Biggest,Largest,Deepest in WORLD
(y) (y) (y) (y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y)
● Largest Airport : King Abdul Khalid International Airport (Saudi Arabia)
● Highest Airport : Lhasa Airport, Tibet
● Tallest Animal : Giraffe
● Largest Animal : Blue Bottom whale
● Largest Bay : Hudson Bay, Canada.
● Fastest Bird : Swift
● Largest Bird : Ostrich
● Smallest Bird : Humming bird
● Longest Bridge : Huey P. Long Bridge (USA)
● Tallest Building : Dubai Burj (Dubai)
● Longest Canal : Baltic sea White Canal
● Largest Cathedral : Cathedral Church of New York
● Largest Cemetry : Ohlsdorf Cemetry (Hamburg, Germany)
● Largest Church : Balisca of St. Peter in the Vatican City, Rome.
● Largest Continent : Asia
● Smallest Continent : Australia
● Largest Country (Area) : Russia
● Smallest Country (Area) : Vatican City
● Biggest Cinema House : Roxy, New York
● Highest City : Wenchuan, China
● Most Populous City : Tokyo
● Longest Day : June 21
● Shortest Day : December 22
● Largest Delta : Sunderban (India)
● Largest Desert : Sahara, North Africa
● Biggest Dome : Gol Gumbaz (Bijapur), India
● Largest Dams : Grand Coulee Dam, USA
● Tallest Fountain : Fountain Hills, Arizona
● Largest Gulf : Gulf of Mexico
● Largest Hotel : Excalibur Hotel (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
● Largest Island : Greenland
● Largest Lake : Caspian Sea.
● Deepest Lake : Baikal (Siberia)
● Highest Lake : Titicaca (Bolivia)
● Largest Library : United States Library of Congress, Washington
● Largest Mosque : Jama Masjid, Delhi (India)
● Highest Mountain Peak : Mount Everest (Nepal)
● Highest Mountain Range : Himalayas, Asia.
● Largest Mountain Range : Andes (South America)
● Biggest Museum : American Museum of Natural History (New York).
● Largest Minaret : Sultan Hassan Mosque (Egypt)
● Tallest Minaret : Qutub Minar, Delhi (India)
● Biggest Oceans : Pacific Ocean
● Deepest Oceans : Pacific Ocean
● Biggest Palace : Vatican (Rome)
● Largest Palace : Imperial Palace (China)
● Largest Park : National Park of North-Eastern (Greenland)
● Largest Peninsula : Arabia
● Highest Plateau : Pamir (Tibet)
● Longest Platform : Gorakhpur
● Largest Platform : Grand Central Terminal, (Rly. Station), New York (USA)
● Biggest Planet : Jupiter
● Smallest Planet : Mercury
● Brightest Planet : Venus
● Coldest Planet : Neptune
● Nearest Planet (to the Sun) : Mercury
● Farthest Planet (from the Sun) : Neptune
● Longest River : Nile, Africa
● Longest River Dam : Hirakud Dam, India
● Largest Sea : South China Sea
● Largest Stadium : Starhove Stadium, Prague (Czech Republic)
● Brightest Star : Sirius A
● Tallest Statue : Motherland (Russia)
● Largest Sea-bird : Albatross
● Biggest Telescope : Mt. Palomar (USA)
● Longest Train : Flying Scotsman
● Largest Temple : Angkorwat in Combodia.
● Oldest Theatre : Teatro Olimpico (Itlay)
● Tallest Tower : C. N. Tower, Toronto (Canada)
● Longest Wall : Great Wall of China
● Highest Waterfall : Angel (Venezuela)
● Widest Waterfall : Khone Falls (Laos)
● Lowest Water Level : Dead Sea
● Longest Epic : Mahabharata
● Hottest Place : Azizia (Libya)
● Rainiest Place : Mosinram, near Cherrapunji (India)
● Highest Road : Leh-Nobra, Ladakh division India.
● Highest Village : Andean (Chile)
● Highest Volcano : Ojos del Salado, (Argentina) Chile
● Largest Volcano : Manuna Lea (Hawai)
● Lightest Gas : Hydrogen
● Fastest Animal : Cheetah
● Biggest Flower : Rafflesia (Java)
● Longest Corridor : Rameshwaram Temple (India)
● Largest Democracy : India
● Highest Cable Car Project : Gulmarg (Jammu-Kashmir)
● Biggest Airbus : Double Decker A-380
● Highest Rail Track : Kwinghai- Tibbet Railway (China)

IPOLITICAL OFFICIAL
1. Prime Minister of India—Narendra Damodardas Modi
2. Speaker of the Lok Sabha—Sumitra Mahajan
3. Minister of Defence—Manohar Parrikar
4. Minister of External Affairs—Sushma Swaraj
5. Minister of Finance—Arun Jaitley
6. Minister of Home Affairs—Rajnath Singh
7. Minister of Agriculture—Radha Mohan Singh
8. Minister of Human Resource Development—Smriti Zubin Irani
9. Minister of Railways—Suresh Prabhu
10. Minister of Law and Justice—D. V. Sadananda Gowda
11. Minister of Road & Transport minister–Nitin Jairam Gadkari
12. Minister of Minority Affairs– Dr. Najma A. Heptulla
13. Minister of Water resources–Uma Bharati
14. Minister of Micro,small and medium enterprises–Kalraj Mishra
15. Minister of Women & child development–Meneka Gandhi
16. Minister of Health & family welfare–Jagat Prakash Nadda
17. Minister of Food processing industries–Harsimrat Kaur Badal
18. Minister of Mines and steel–Narendra Singh Tomar
19. Minister of Rural/panchayat raj/drinking water and saniation–Chaudhary Birender Singh
20. Minister of Tribal affairs–Jual Oram
21. Minister of Urban Development/housing and urban poverty alleviation/Parliamentary affairs–M. Venkaiah Naidu
22. Minister of Consumer affairs,Food and Public Distribution–Ramvilas Paswan
23. Minister of Science & technology,Earth science–Dr. Harsh Vardhan
24. Minister of Social justice and empowerment–Thawar Chand Gehlot
25. Minister of Chemicals and fertilizers–Ananth Kumar
26. Minister of Communications and information technology–Ravi Shankar Prasad
27. Minister of Civil aviation–Ashok Gajapathi Raju
28. Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises–Anant Geete

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No State/Union Territory Capital State Area (sq km)
1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Blair 8,249
2 Andhra Pradesh Vijayawada 160,205
3 Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar 83,743
4 Assam Dispur 78,550
5 Bihar Patna 99,200
6 Chandigarh Chandigarh 114
7 Chhattisgarh Raipur 135,194
8 Dadra and Nagar Haveli Silvassa 491
9 Daman and Diu Daman 112
10 National Capital Territory of Delhi Delhi 11,297
11 Goa Panaji 3,702
12 Gujarat Gandhinagar 196,024
13 Haryana Chandigarh 44,212
14 Himachal Pradesh Shimla 55,673
15 Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar (S) and Jammu(W) 222,236
16 Jharkhand Ranchi 74,677
17 Karnataka Bengaluru 191,791
18 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram 38,863
19 Lakshadweep Kavaratti 32
20 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 308,252
21 Maharashtra Mumbai 307,713
22 Manipur Imphal 22,347
23 Meghalaya Shillong 22,720
24 Mizoram Aizawl 21,081
25 Nagaland Kohima 16,579
26 Orissa Bhubaneswar 155,820
27 Pondicherry Pondicherry 479
28 Punjab Chandigarh 50,362
29 Rajasthan Jaipur 342,269
30 Sikkim Gangtok 7,096
31 Tamil Nadu Chennai 130,058
32 Telangana Hyderabad 114,840
33 Tripura Agartala 10,491
34 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 243,286
35 Uttarakhand Dehradun 53,566
36 West Bengal Kolkata 88,752

PʀɪME MɪɴɪSTEʀ OF ɪɴDɪA

No Name Born-Died In Office
1 Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 15th August, 1947---27th May,1964
Gulzarilal Nanda* 1898–1998 27th May, 1964---9th June,1964
2 Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904–1966 9th June,1964---11th January,1966
Gulzarilal Nanda* 1898–1998 11th January,1966---24th January,1966
3 Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 24th January,1966---24th March,1977
4 Morarji Desai 1896–1995 24th March,1977---28th July,1979
5 Charan Singh 1902–1987 28th July,1979---14th January,1980
6 Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 14th January,1980---31st October,1984
7 Rajiv Gandhi 1944–1991 31st October,1984---2nd December,1989
8 V. P. Singh 1931–2008 2nd December,1989---10th
November,1990
9 Chandra Shekhar 1927–2007 10th November,1990---21st June,1991
10 P. V. Narasimha Rao 1921–2004 21st June,1991---16th May,1996
11 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1924 16th May,1996---1st June,1996
12 H. D. Deve Gowda 1933 1st June,1996---21st April,1997
13 Inder Kumar Gujral 1919–2012 21st April,1997---19th March,1998
14 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1924 19th March,1998---22nd May,2004
15 Dr. Manmohan Singh 1932 22nd May,2004---26th May,2014
16 Narendra Modi 1950 26th May,2014---Till Now

VɪCE PʀESɪDEɴT OF ɪɴDɪA

No Name Born-Died In Office
1 Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1888–1975 13th May,1952---12th May,1962
2 Dr. Zakir Hussain 1897–1969 13th May,1962---12th May,1967
3 Sh. Varahagiri Venkata Giri 1894–1980 13th May,1967---3rd May,1969
4 Gopal Swarup Pathak 1896–1982 31st August,1969---30th August,1974
5 Basappa Danappa Jatti 1912–2002 31st August,1974---30th August,1979
6 Justice Muhammad Hidayatullah 1905–1992 31st August,1979---30th August,1984
7 Ramaswamy Venkataraman 1910–2009 31st August,1984---24th July,1987
8 Shankar Dayal Sharma 1918–1999 3rd September,1987---24th July,1992
9 Kocheril Raman Narayanan 1920–2005 21st August,1992---24th July,1997
10 Krishan Kant 1927–2002 21st August,1997---27th July,2002
11 Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 1923–2010 19th August,2002---21st July,2007
12 Mohammad Hamid Ansari 1937 11th August,2007---Till Now

PʀESɪDEɴT OF ɪɴDɪA

No Name                                         Born-Died                                       In Office

1 Dr. Rajendra Prasad                    1884-1963                       26th January,1950 ---13th May, 1962
2 Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan    1888–1975                       13th May, 1962---13th May, 1967
3 Dr. Zakir Hussain                        1897–1969                       13th May1967---3rd May,1969
Varahagiri Venkata Giri *             1894–1980                         3rd May,1969---20th July,1969
Mohammad Hidayatullah *            1905–1992                       20th July,1969---24th August, 1969
4 Varahagiri Venkata Giri              1894–1980                       24th August, 1969---24th August, 1974
5 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed                1905–1977                       24th August, 1974---11th February,1977
Basappa Danappa Jatti*                  1912–2002                       11th February,1977---25th July,1977
6 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy                 1913–1996                       25th July,1977---25th July,1982
7 Giani Zail Singh                           1916–1994                       25th July,1982---25th July,1987
8 Ramaswamy Venkataraman         1910–2009                       25th July,1987---25th July,1992
9 Shankar Dayal Sharma                 1918–1999                       25th July,1992---25th July,1997
10 Kocheril Raman Narayanan        1920–2005                      25th July,1997---25th July,2002
11 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam                  1931- 2015                       25th July,2002---25th July,2007
12 Pratibha Patil                               1934                                25th July,2007---25th July,2012
13 Pranab Mukherjee                       1935                                25th July,2012---Till Now
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