The General Secretary of PCS says the Government is out of touch and PCS will do stand up for the rights of their membership as axing their jobs would not only hurt the public sector worker but public service delivery as well.
This week, representatives of more than 320,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union will meet in Brighton for our annual conference. Like all trade unions, democracy is at the heart of everything we do and conference is where our policies are made.
Never has this collective will of our membership been more important; we have reached a crucial stage of our ongoing campaign to protect jobs, and ensure fair pay and conditions for workers in central government departments, agencies and privatised areas of the civil service the governments own workforce.
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The 2007 annual delegate conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) opens today (16 May) in Brighton. Over 1,200 delegates will be attending the conference of Britains largest civil service trade union, which runs until Friday 18 May against a backdrop of an ongoing dispute over civil and public service job cuts, privatisation and below inflation pay.
The dispute with the government and civil service management has already seen two successful one day civil service wide strikes this year and the first day of the conference, today, will see delegates debating the next steps of the campaign. Options
More than 20,000 civil servants went on strike across Lancashire today, badly disrupting some services.
Job centres, tax offices and the national Disability Carers' Allowance Centre were all running on a "skeleton staff" as hundreds took to the picket lines as part of a dispute over job cuts, pay and the privatisation of public services.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) estimated up to 5,000 would not be turning in for work today in Preston alone.
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Civil service workers in Finchley and Edgware joined a second national strike on Tuesday over pay, job cuts and privatisation.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said the 24-hour walkout was due to affect up to 200 government departments and agencies.
These included Revenue and Customs staff at Gateway House, in Regents Park Road, Finchley, and at Lyndhurst House, in Bunns Lane, Edgware.
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Yesterdays strike by more than 200,000 civil and public servants caused disruption across the UK with courts, museums, jobcentres, tax and benefits offices and enquiry points either closed or offering no service to the public. E-Government services took up some of the public demand yesterday & showed that web transaction can be of real value.
The second one-day stoppage by members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) across 200 government departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies is an escalation of a dispute over job cuts, pay and privatisation, prompted by the government and civil service managements refusal to hold direct
(a) A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Foreign Service on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that Service will not be eligible to compete at this examination.
In case such a candidate is appointed to the IAS/IFS after the Preliminary Examination of Civil Service Examination, is over and he/she continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be eligible to appear in the Civil Services Main Examination notwithstanding h^/her having qualified in the Preliminary Examination.
Also provided that if such a candidate is appointed to
A total of 474 candidates have qualified this year after cracking the prestigious civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), it was announced here on Monday.
Mutyalaraju Revu from West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh topped the examination, while Anindita Mitra, ranked eighth, was first among the woman candidates.
They were among some 200,000 applicants who appeared for the tests - a selection rate of a mere 0.237 percent. Of the 474 selected candidates 373 are males and 101 females.
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(i) Indian Administrative Service
(ii) Indian Foreign Service
(iii) Indian Police Service
(iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group A
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group A
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) Group A
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group A
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.) Group lA
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group A
(Assistant
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the towns HM Revenue and Customs office in Saltire House, walked out over plans to reassign jobs to Edinburgh, as well as in support of national issues of job cuts, pay and privatisation.
Staff at the tax office are angry over plans to relocate 85 jobs from the Glenrothes base to the capital.
They claim it would cost them £2,000 a year to commute to the capital.
They also believe that some workers would be unable to make the move because of domestic committments.
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Introduction
Indian Economic/Statistical Services Exam is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission to recruit Grade IV officers for the Indian Statistical Service (ISS) and Indian Economic Service (IES). Indian Economic/Statistical Services Exam is generally conducted in the month of November.
ISS and IES are central government services which are involved in economic planning and analysis through state boards, planning commission and other government owned bodies in the country.
Out of several careers offered by the Government Sector, Indian Economic/Statistical Service offers a very attractive opening to graduates in Economics and Statistics. Selected candidates are placed in the planning commission,
Mutyalaraju Reva, who is from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, topped the 2006 Civil Services Examination in which eight women figure in the top 20.
Announcing the final results today, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recommended 474 candidates, including 101 women. Reva is from the backward caste community.
Reva is a product of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc). Anindita Mitra, an engineer, whose overall ranking was eighth, topped among women.
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Mutyalaraju Revu, an Other Backward Class (OBC) candidate from a small village, has topped the highly competitive civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at a time when the country debates the issue of reservation for OBCs in higher education.
Revu, 27-year-old son of a farmer in small village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, has surpassed 473 successful candidates including 214 general category qualifiers to top the merit list.
His uncle Venkanna was all praise for Revu, who is currently serving in the Andhra Pradesh Police. Revu, who has always been a brilliant student, has done his
The Civil Services Examination consists of two successive stages: (i) Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Objective type) for the selection of candidates for the Main Examination; and (ii) Civil Services Main Exam. (Written & Interview) for selection of candidates for the various services and posts noted below. After appearing at the Preliminary Exam., candidates who are declared successful to have qualified for admission to the Main Exam, (held during October/November) have to apply again, in the detailed application form which is supplied to them. Number of vacancies for 2006 exams, have been notified as 495 approx. (liable to alteration).
Union Public Service Commissions (UPSC) paranoia about parting with information on the marks of candidates appearing for the all-India Civil Services Examinations extends not only to candidates but even to its nodal ministry, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
DoPT had been making repeated requests for candidates marks. It needs the information in connection with a controversy about separate interview boards for reserved category candidates. But, so far, its requests have been met with stony silence from the UPSC.
Allegations of bias in the way the all-India civil services selection interview is conducted for reserved candidates had cropped up
1. Introduction: Meaning, scope and significance. Evolution and status of the discipline. Comparative Public Administration and Development Administration. Public and Private Administration: State versus market debate. New Pubic Administration. New Public Management perspective.
2. Basic concepts and principles; Organisation, hierarchy, Unity of command, Span of control, Authority and Responsibility, Co-ordination, Centralization and Decentralization, Delegation, Supervision, Line and Staff.
3. Theories of Administration: Scientific Management (Taylor and the Scientific Management Movement), Classical Theory (Fayol, Urwick, Gulick and others) Bureaucratic
Introduction
The Assistants' Grade Examination is conducted by the Staff Selection Commission for recruitment to:
a. Grade IV (Assistant) of the General Cadre of the Indian Foreign Services (B).
b. Grade II (Cypher Assistant) of Cypher Cadre of Indian Foreign Service Branch (B);
c. Assistants' Grade of the Railway Board Secretariat Service
i. Assistants' Grade of the Central Secretariat Service
ii. Assistants' Grade of the Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service; and
iii. Posts of Assistants in other Departments / Organizations and the Attached Offices of the Government of India, not participating in IFS (B)/Railway Board Secretariat Service/ Central Secretariat Service/Armed
