At the time when British government was ruling us; they set up a commission named public service commission in 1926 for appointing people for different civil services. But it failed to satisfy people’s expectations. So government created a new commission called Federal Service Commission for better implementation under pressure of leaders of various movements. After India became separate and got freedom; Indian assembly foreseeing the need of autonomous body to recruit people for different civil services, given Federal Service Commission a special status of an autonomous body and named it as UNION SERVICE PUBLIC COMMISSION, so there will be no bargaining with quality.
For this commission some constitutional provision was made under article 315. Some duties and role of commission is as follows:-
It should conduct recruitment for posts under it, through competitive exam only.
Recruitment for central government’s posts and services should be selected by taking an interview.
It should handle all disciplinary cases related to different civil services under it.
It should also solve the legal cases related to miscellaneous issues.
It also advises government on methods for conducting recruitment exam for various services.
In three different ways recruitment can be made viz. direct recruitment, by advertising and recruitment through transfer. In direct recruitment, selection is done through competitive exam or through interview or using both. In transfer, after consulting with government, commission simply promotes one officer to next grade or promotes to next level in the same grade. Recently to make admission process simple, it has started a project named “SAMPERA (Screening and Mechanized Processing of Examination and Recruitment Application)”. In this commission has made a simplified single sheet application valid for all exams and this application and papers are checked using OMR/ICR technology.
This will result in higher accuracy of examination result. In exams, strict and stringent disciplinary measurements are taken for preventing any copying or malpractices. Examination timings and syllabus is declared four to five months before the actual examinations and those who get good grades in these exams are considered to have bright future.
