Bihar Revenue Service (BRS) and Bihar Rural Development Service (BRDS) an Introduction

With the objective to improve governance, Bihar government has created two new state level services  including Bihar Revenue Service (BRS) and Bihar Rural Development Service (BRDS).

These services are going to met the shortage of the Block Development Officers (BDOs) and Circle Officers (COs) in the Bihar who plays pivotal role in the development.

The land related cases are disposes by the CO’s in the state. The Bihar Public Service Commission will make the recruitment to the services through the combined competitive examinations.

The total strength of in the basic cadre of Circle Officers and equivalent grade officers in Bihar is 886.

According to the service circular 75% of the vacancy in basic cadre will be filled directly while the remaining 25% will be filled through promotion from lower ranks of “Kanungo” and “Land Solution Officer”.

The successful candidates will not get direct appointment as CO after passing the BPSC examination but it will be appointed after the first promotion , followed by district land reform officer (DCLR) in second promotion for three years.

The total sanctioned post of COs and equivalent grade is 801 and that DCLRs and equivalent grade is 134 in the Bihar.

However in ongoing 53rd -55th Bihar Public Service Commission combined competitive examination no post for the Revenue Services will be recruited.

Similarly another important services Bihar Rural Development Service (BRDS) the successful candidate of Bihar Rural Development Service will be appointed as Block Development Officer (BDOs) or Executive Magistrate after three years of service as rural development officer (RDO).

The pay scale of BDO and RDO will be same as Rs. 9300- 34800 in pay band II but their grade pay wil be different.

The BDO can be promoted to the post of assistant project officer (APO) and they can go up to the rank of assistant director.

The promotion posts have been categorized in five groups and a person can move up to the post of additional director.

Promotion Sequence of Bihar Rural Development Service:

Rural Development Officer (RDO)-----Block Development Officer (BDO) or Executive Magistrates-----Assistant Project Officer----Assistant Director----Additional Director.

BPSC 53rd -55th Examination Update, Paper Checking, Number of Vacancy, Result, Scaling Information

Patna, Aug, 23: The 53rd to 55th BPSC Combined Civil services Examination to recruit at 741 premier posts under various offices of state government were successfully conducted between May 26 to June 14 at various centers at Patna.

About 15000 candidates were participated in the Mains examination amongst them 2000 candidates will be invited for the interview because according to circular of BPSC 2.5 times candidates against the number of are declared successful for the final stage.

The numbers can go higher in case if few candidates have same marks on cut off line and further vacancy get added into the recruitment list as it happened in 48th 52nd BPSC examination when 19 education services vacancy was added even after declaration of mains result.

Paper Checking Process: BPSC forging ahead with its plans to check the papers as soon as possible given the size of the examination about 105000 papers to be checked before result will be declared .It is a mammoth task before BPSC to effectively execute their plans in timely manner.

As per latest information available General Studies and Hindi Compulsory Papers has been checked and Optional are getting evaluated at brisk pace.

The result will be declared one month after completion of paper evaluation because decoding and preparation of merit lists preparation is a time consuming process.

Given the trend of the previous year when 48th 52nd Mains Examination was held in May -June and result was declared in February taken total seven month.

It was learned that Candidates positively expect the result in November -December 2012 because this time BPSC looking to finished the process at faster speed because government has indicated that that before general election of 2014 56th to 57th BPSC will be finalized.

Patna High Court also asked the clarification from the commission that why BPSC is conducting multiple batches together, however BPSC filed their reply by saying that it was the Government decision which was approved by Bihar Cabinet.

Cut Off For The 53rd 55th Mains examination: The past trend of BPSC suggest the cutoff to land between 725 to 750 but given the current condition backed by record number of vacancy (741), Clash of BPSC and JPSC mains examination schedule, busy season of UPSC -CSAT, UPPSC PT, RAS PT and Decision of BPSC to tame the abnormal marking pattern in some selected subject under the lights of Patna High Court Query will have their strong say in cutoff.

Considering the previous trend and current situation cut off could land below 700 marks.

Scaling Matter: The buzz is rumoring that the BPSC will adapt scaling system to tame the abnormally higher marks in the certain optional paper however it is not possible because BPSC conducts examination through a well laid circular any change in the process of examination needs change in the current circular so it is obvious that scaling is not in the reality.

But given the interest of Patna High Court eye in abnormal marking matter BPSC certainly mulling to get rid of this issue by directing the examiners to take while evaluating certain optional.

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JPSC Scam: 19 Dismissed Officials to get Reappointment

Ranchi,Aug,21:Under the lights of the Apex Court Order previously dismissed administrative officers are trying to get in to the services.

The resourceful dismissed officers including brother of deputy CM has managed to send their reappointment file to the CM office but CM seeks legal opinion on this matter as said by AG.

An entire effort seems to get failed as AG didn’t support the decision to reappoint them due to technical reason.

The Jharkhand Government had asked for legal opinion in the matter which has already been given to the Jharkhand Government," revealed Advocate General of Jharkhand Anil Kumar Sinha.

The State Government askes for the clarification on the 19 officers including brother of deputy Chief minster's brother who had earlier been dismissed by the Jharkhand Government after they were found to have adopted unfair means for getting selected in Civil Services Examination of JPSC," added the AG.

As per sources, the 19 officers were also trying to get advantage from the SC order despite the fact that they had been dismissed by the Government way back. However, the relief given by the SC was only for the other 147 officers, they added.

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Uttarakhand Public Service Commission to get Online form Facility

Hardwar,Aug,19: Uttarakhand Public Service Commission(UKPSC) is going to unveil an online service for filling up the application forms for the candidates. 

Till today, applicants had to purchase forms and send it through mail to the Commission for a thorough scrutiny. But now, the Commission is going to make the entire process hi-tech for the applicants.

The work was entrusted to the NIC which has prepared a new software and it is negotiating with a nationalized bank to offer this service.

Online facility would be started once the Commission reaches an agreement with the bank.

Now those wishing to appear in the Public Service Exams in the state would be able to submit their forms as well as fees through online service. For the time being, the Commission would provide online service for interview only.

However, for written exams the PSC would provide this facility in a phased manner.

With the new software to be put in place, errors would come down and software would trap mistakes so that they are corrected soon.

There would also be no risk of forms being torn and cut if they are are filled up online.

As per sources, this facility would be introduced by the end of the current year.

JPSC Dumps Outsourcing Partners for Mismanagement in Examinations

Ranchi, Aug, 18: Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) that facing allegation regarding their inefficiency to conduct the examination as all examination conducted by commission facing controversy has finally decided to change their outsourcing partner.

The decision came due to latest controversy that defamed some political leaders including Sibu Soren in the question of recently conducted junior engineer recruitment examination.

JPSC was using the services of MeritTrac Services Private Limited to frame the questions and other support.

MeritTrac is a Bangalore based company that provides examination process and assessment solutions to Educational Institutions, Government / Public Sector and Corporate. Started in 2000, MeritTrac has been pioneer in assessments and has delivered numerous innovative solutions.

Prior to MeritTrac another agency, Kendriya Bhandar, dealing basically in grocery business, was selected for the job. The one year tenure was marred with several mistakes and brought disrepute to already dented reputation of the JPSC.

Commission has already initiated the process to search another partner to conduct the free and fare examination.

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