Present Pattern of Civil Services Examination

Present Pattern of Civil Services Examination setting up some permanent office charged with the regulation of service matters. This concept of a body intended to be charged primarily with the regulation of service matters, found a somewhat more practical shape in the Government of India Act, . Section (C) of the Act provided for the establishment in India of a Public Service Commission which should “discharge, in regard to recruitment and control of the Public Services in India, such functions as may be assigned thereto by rules made by the Secretary of State in Council”. After passing of the Government of India Act, , in spite of a prolonged correspondence among various levels on the functions and machinery of the body to be set up, no decision was taken on setting up of the body. The subject was then referred to the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India (also known as Lee Commission). The Lee Commission, in their report in the year , recommended that the statutory Public Service Commission contemplated by the Government of India Act, should be established without delay. Subsequent to the provisions of Section (C) of the Government of India Act, and the strong recommendations made by the Lee Commission in for the early establishment of a Public Service Commission, it was on October , that the Public Service Commission was set up in India for the first time. It consisted of four Members in addition to the Chairman. Sir Ross Barker, a member of the Home Civil Service of the United Kingdom was the first Chairman of the Commission. The functions of the Public Service Commission were not laid down in the Government of India Act, , but were regulated by the Public Service Commission (Functions) Rules, framed under sub-section ( ) of Section (C) of the Government of India Act, . Further, the Government of India Act, envisaged a Public Service Commission for the Federation and a Provincial Public Service Commission for each Province or group of Provinces. Therefore,