The new and improved Pratibha Setu portal isn’t just a lifeline for UPSC candidates. It also offers ministries, PSUs, and private companies a database of talented individuals.
Aspirants have come and gone but Pushpendra Shrivastava remains confined in his one-room flat in Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar. His next test is the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission interview.
Another changing scenario had been, more candidates from various backgrounds aspiring to clear UPSC –even doctors, engineers, scientists and technocrats.
In a span of 15 years, the number of women UPSC applicants has nearly quadrupled, outpacing the growth in total applicants. Women now make up a third of all applicants.
For many families with UPSC aspirants, it takes a village to fulfil the near impossible dream. Loans have to be taken and money must be saved to feed the great Indian coaching factories.
Aspirants moved tribunal claiming civil services aptitude test included questions not part of syllabus. Saying it gives an edge to engineering graduates, they want it scrapped in coming years.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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