Former civil servants to coach UPSC aspirants filling up DAF form, appear in personality test

ANUGRAH, a Delhi-based low-cost civil service interview coaching centre run by a few  former bureaucrats will now help the aspirants in filling up Detailed Application Form, DAF (CSM), for Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2017. The filling up of this form where a successful candidate needs to give information such as one's education, family, job experiences, sports, hobbies etc. is considered crucial at the time of personality test. “Highly experienced team of former senior bureaucrats…

Bhopal-based young IPS officers to coach meritorious children of police aspiring to crack civil services exam

COACHING centres for civil services examination are ubiquitous, but here is an out-of-the-box idea being planned by IPS officers stationed at Madhya Pradesh’s capital city — Bhopal. A few young IPS officers located in Bhopal have decided to come together to teach meritorious children of police personnel, who have been aspirating to be future civil servants. The officers have planned to undertake this job, apart from executing their routine duty of maintaining law and order situation, according to…

Ex-civil servants Sudhir Chandra, PJ Thomas, others start UPSC interview coaching centre, Anugrah

A NUMBER of former civil servants and experts, many of whom were on UPSC interview board earlier, have started a low cost coaching and customized guidance centre in New Delhi to train IAS aspirants for interviews. Named Anugrah, this Delhi-based organization says, it will give priority to those who hail from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds, though anyone including those who have not yet cleared the civil services mains examination, may enroll at the centre. Former civil servants who are guiding the young aspirants for the UPSC personality test include…

Housed in a mosque, Chennai-based IAS academy to train students from other religions too; more about Muslim IAS toppers

Photo Courtesy: AK IAS Academy

Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy, a Chennai-based residential coaching institute meant for Muslim students appearing for civil services examinations, will now open its door to students from other religions too. The academy, known informally as Makka Masjid IAS Academy, will arrange an alternative place to house students of the other religions, as Muslim students are being accommodated in the...

When one Delhi locality houses 50,000 aspirants chasing civil services dream

“The IAS-Wallahs”. Amid the high-voltage general elections when apolitical news have virtually disappeared from newspapers, both national and regional, there was a highly readable piece on Sunday in HT’s popular magazine called Brunch about young men and women spending their best years chasing the civil services dream. Putting together many anecdotes and live examples, it also narrates lives of what it calls IAS coaching ghettos of Delhi viz.

Karnataka govt plans to set up an IAS coaching center in line with JSSTICE

IN A bid to ensure that more and more graduates from Karnataka crack the civil services examinations, the government of Karnataka is now planning to set up a coaching institute for IAS aspirants, chief minister Siddaramaiah said on Monday. The chief minister further added that the coaching institute would be akin to…

IAS coaching centres reach out to NRI children; UPSC exams to get tougher

Dream Run: A section of successful IAS of 2011 batch

IAS coaching centres have now jumped into the “brain gain” bandwagon wooing children of rich NRIs to enrol and appear for civil services examinations. For many Indians living abroad, Indian bureaucracy is a symbol of power and prestige. Also, working in rural pockets of India is a fantasy for many of those rich kids living abroad.
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