UPSC IES/ ISS Notification 2023 Out: Apply By 9th May 2023

Updated On : 19 Apr, 2023

UPSC IES RECRUITMENT 2023

Union Public Service Commission has issued an official notification regarding the Indian Economic Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination 2023. Those who want to appear in the examination can apply for same by visiting the official website of the UPSC from 19th of April 2023 to 09th May 2023 till 18.00 Hours. 

All candidates (male/female/transgender) are advised to carefully read this article to know the Economic Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination information which is necessary to know before applying for the examination. 

UPSC IES UPDATES 2023

Exam conducting body 

Union Public Service Commission

Post name 

Indian Economic Service

Indian Statistical Service

Application dates

19th April to 9th May 2023 till 18.00 Hours

Application mode 

Online 

Vacancy 

51

Official website

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Official notice 

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Apply link 

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UPSC IES ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA 2023

Nationality 

 A candidate must be either:— 

(a) a citizen of India; or 

(b) a subject of Nepal; or 

(c) a subject of Bhutan; or 

(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January, 1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India; or 

(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India : 

  • Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) & (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India. 

  • A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Government of India.

UPSC IES Age Limit

A candidate must be at least 21 years old and under 30 years old on August 1, 2023, which means that they cannot have been born earlier than August 2, 1993 or later than August 1, 2002.

Relaxation in age is also permissible to some special category which is tabulated below:-

Category 

Age Limit 

Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe

up to a maximum of five years

Other Backward Classes

up to a maximum of three years

Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area, and released as a consequence thereof

up to a maximum of three years

ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st August, 2023 and have been released

up to a maximum of five years

ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as on 1st August, 2023

up to a maximum of five years

Persons with Benchmark Disabilities 

up to a maximum of Ten years

UPSC IES Educational Qualification 

Post name 

Educational Qualification 

Indian Economic Service 

A candidate must have obtained a Post-Graduate Degree in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/Econometrics from a University incorporated by of an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutes established by an Act Parliament or declared to be deemed as University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or a Foreign University approved by the Central Government from time to time.

Indian Statistical Service

A candidate must have obtained a Bachelor's Degree with Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics as one of the subject or a Master's degree in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics from a University incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutes established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or a Foreign University approved by the Central Government from time to time.

UPSC IES APPLICATION PROCESS 2023

To apply online for the IES/ISS exam, follow these steps:

  1. Visit the official website of UPSC and click on Apply Online tab.

  2. Now click on “One Time Registration (OTR) for Examinations of UPSC” and fill out your credentials carefully to complete part 1 of application form 

  3. After completing the process your login credentials will be sent to your registered email I’d..

  4. Log in with your registration number and date of birth to access Part II of the application form and complete it.

  5. Upload the required documents, such as your photograph and signature.

  6. Pay the application fee as per your category and mode of payment.

  7. Read and tick the declaration, confirming the accuracy of the information provided in the application form.

  8. Submit the UPSC IES/ISS online form and take a printout of the application form for your records.

Application Fee

Category 

Application Fee 

General/ OBC/ EWS

INR 200/- 

Female/SC/ST/Persons with Benchmark Disability Candidates

Exempted 

Note:- Application fee can be submitted either by remitting the money in any Branch of State Bank of India or by using Visa/Master/RuPay Credit/Debit Card/UPI Payment or by using Internet Banking of any Bank.

UPSC IES SELECTION PROCESS

The examination shall be conducted according to the following plan— 

Part I-Written examination carrying a maximum of 1000 marks in the subjects as shown below. 

Part II-Viva voce of such candidates as may be called by the Commission carrying a maximum of 200 marks.

UPSC IES EXAM PATTERN 2023

Part-1 

(a) Indian Economic Service 

Subject

Marks

Duration

General English

100

3  hrs.

General Studies

100

3 hrs.

General Economics-1

200

3 hrs.

General Economics-2

200

3 hrs.

General Economics-3

200

3 hrs.

Indian Economics

200

3 hrs.

(b) Indian Statistical Service

General English

100

3  hrs.

General Studies

100

3 hrs.

Statistics-1 (Objective)

200

2 hrs.

Statistics-2 (Objective)

200

2 hrs.

Statistics-3 (Descriptive)

200

3 hrs.

Statistics-4 (Descriptive)

200

3 hrs.

Part-2

Viva-Voce Candidates will be eligible for this after scoring 200+ marks in Part-1.

UPSC IES SYLLABUS 2023

Subject 

English 

GENERAL ENGLISH (COMM0N TO BOTH IES/ISS)

Candidates will be required to write an essay in English. Other questions will be designed to test their understanding of English and workman like use of words. Passages will usually be set for summary or precis. 

GENERAL STUDIES (COMM0N TO BOTH IES/ISS)

General knowledge including knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific subject. The paper will also include questions on Indian Polity including the political system and the Constitution of India, History of India and the Geography of nature which a candidate should be able to answer without special study

GENERAL ECONOMICS – I (For IES only)

PART A: 1. Theory of Consumer’s Demand

2. Theory of Production 

3. Theory of Value 

4. Theory of Distribution

5. Welfare Economics

PART B: Quantitative Methods in Economics 1. Mathematical Methods in Economics

2. Statistical and Econometric Methods

GENERAL ECONOMICS – II (For IES only)

1. Economic Thought

2. Concept of National Income and Social Accounting 

3. Theory of employment, Output, Inflation, Money and Finance

4. Financial and Capital Market 

5. Economic Growth and Development

6. International Economics

7. Balance of Payments

8. Global Institutions

GENERAL ECONOMICS – III (For IES only)

1. Public Finance 

2. Environmental Economics

3. Industrial Economics

4. State, Market and Planning

INDIAN ECONOMICS (For IES only)

1. History of development and planning

2. Federal Finance

3. Budgeting and Fiscal Policy

4. Poverty, Unemployment and Human Development

5. Agriculture and Rural Development Strategies

6. India’s experience with Urbanisation and Migration

7. Industry

8. Labour

9. Foreign trade

10. Money and Banking

11. Inflation 

STATISTICS-I (OBJECTIVE TYPE) (For ISS only)

1. Probability

2. Statistical Methods

3. Numerical Analysis

  • Finite differences of different orders

  • Concept of interpolation and extrapolation

  • Inverse interpolation

  • Numerical differentiation

  • Summation of Series

  • Numerical solutions of differential equations

4. Computer application and Data Processing: 

  • Basics of Computer

  • Basics of Programming 

STATISTICS- II (OBJECTIVE TYPE) (For ISS only)

1. Linear Models: Theory of linear estimation, Gauss- 

2. Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing: 

  • Characteristics of good estimator. 

  • Hypothesis testing 

3. Official Statistics 

  • National and International official statistical system Official Statistics

  • National Statistical Organization

  • National Statistical Commission

  • Index Numbers

  • Sector Wise Statistics

  • Population Census

  • National Accounts

  • Population Census

STATISTICS- III (DESCRIPTIVE TYPE) (For ISS only)

1. Sampling Techniques

2. Econometrics

3. Applied Statistics  

STATISTICS-IV (DESCRIPTIVE TYPE) (For ISS only)

1. Operations Research and Reliability

2. Demography and Vital Statistics

3. Survival Analysis and Clinical Trial

4. Quality Control

5. Multivariate Analysis

6. Design and Analysis of Experiments 

7. Computing with C and R

UPSC IES/ ISS EXAMINATION CENTRE 2023

Ahmedabad

Dispur

Mumbai

Bengaluru

Hyderabad

Patna

Bhopal

Jaipur

Prayagraj

Chandigarh

Jammu

Shillong

Chennai

Kolkata

Shimla

Cuttack

Lucknow

Thiruvananthapuram

Delhi



UPSC IES VACANCY 2023

Post name 

Vacancy 

Indian Economic Service

18

Indian Statistical Service

33

Total 

51

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