Upsc chairman

Topics Covered: Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies. Pradeep Kumar Joshi appointed as UPSC chairman: Context: Educationist Professor Pradeep Kumar Joshi has been appointed as the chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). • Joshi is currently a member in the Commission. • He will succeed Arvind Saxena. Who appoints chairman and other members? Article-316– Appointment and term of office of members: The Chairman and other members of a Public Service Commission shall be appointed, in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission, by the President, and in the case of a State Commission, by the Governor of the State. Term: A member of a Public Service Commission shall hold office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains, in the case of the Union Commission, the age of sixty-five years, and in the case of a State Commission or a Joint Commission, the age of sixty-two years, whichever is earlier. Reappointment: A person who holds office as a member of a Public Service Commission shall, on the expiration of his term of office, be ineligible for reappointment to that office. But, a member other than the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission shall be eligible for appointment as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission, or as the Chairman of a State Public Service Commission, but not for any other employment ei...

AHMEDABAD: From selling incense sticks in the Bhuleshwar area of Mumbai in his childhood after his father's death, to becoming the country's youngest university vice-chancellor in 2005, of MS University, to being appointed UPSC chairman on April 5, the story of Soni has been associated with the Swaminarayan sect's Anoopam Mission, at Mogri in Anand district, since a young age and received diksha (initiation) as a nishkarma karmayogi (selfless worker) on January 10, 2020. When "Soni's father was a member of the mission in Mumbai. After his father's death, the organization supported Soni's education and he served as a member of the mission from an early age. After his college, he began teaching at Members work and earn for the mission, which uses their donated income for charitable work such as running schools, dispensaries, supporting colleges and social work in tribal areas. A scholar of political science, Soni taught international relations at Sardar Patel University (SPU), Vallabh Vidyanagar between 1991 and 2016, except for when he served as vice-chancellor of two universities, MSU, Vadodara between 2005 and 2008, and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University (BAOU) in Ahmedabad between August 2009 and July 2015. Soni's wife, Prutha, teaches at J&J College in Nadiad while his son Aarsh is in college. Soni completed his doctoral studies in 1995 and did his research on "Post-Cold War International Systemic Transition and Indo-US Relations". He has even authored a book, "Under...

New Delhi: A Delhi-based 31-year-old Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirant appeared for the preliminary examination on 28 May. She has since been spending sleepless nights waiting for the results. The second paper of the preliminary examination, called the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), turned out to be so difficult that, despite being a tech student, she couldn’t get to all the math questions. Speaking to ThePrint, she said: “This was my sixth and last attempt. Never has the CSAT exam been this difficult. It almost seems like the UPSC wants only tech background students to be able to clear the exam. If the current math questions took us five minutes instead of the required one minute to solve, there is no way a non-tech background student would have been able to solve them.” She is one of the lakhs of candidates who appeared for the central civil services examinations this year. Several UPSC aspirants have claimed that the qualifying paper CSAT was asymmetrical in its make and heavily tilted towards questions on Mathematics. On 8 June, a group of over 4,000 aggrieved students  filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Central Administrative Tribunal — a system set up for adjudication of disputes and complaints with respect to recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to public services and posts — demanding that the cut-off for the paper be reduced from 33 per cent to 23 per cent this year. Saaket Jain, the legal couns...