UPSC CSE 2022: Notified UPSC Vacancies Rise By 20% But Remain Under 1000 For The 6th Year: Vacancies in 2020, 2019, 2018

UPSC Civil Services Exam 2022: Union Public Service Commission, UPSC has released the UPSC Civil Services Notification for 861 posts on 2nd February 2022. As one can note, these vacancies are 20% higher than the previous year's vacancies. However, the number of vacancies from the past 6 years has remained under 1000. The reason for this is still unknown and has been questioned in Parliament as well. 

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The UPSC trends from the last two years have seen lowering vacancies consecutively but this year's vacancies are seeing a 20% increase. Candidates who are to prepare for the exam must know the number of posts. Check the vacancies for the past 5 years below.  

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UPSC CSE 2022: Number of vacancies in previous years

Check the number of vacancies of various posts released by UPSC in previous years. 

UPSC 2022: Is There A Shortage of IAS Officers?

Minister of State for Personnel, Jitendra Singh in a written reply in Lok Sabha in 2019, had said that 5,205 IAS positions were filled as against the total authorised strength of 6,699. “There is a shortage of 1,496 IAS officers in the country,” the minister had informed the House. 

It is not that the vacancies are only of IAS officers but these are distributed among various other posts as well like IPS, IRTS, IRS etc. So to find out a solution to this shortage of Civil Servants the Government of India decided to set up a panel to assess this issue and a recruitment plan was to be suggested after that. The panel would soon submit its report. 

How many candidates appear each year?

2020 data states that almost 11,54,769 candidates applied for the Civil Services exams in that year and only 5,68,282 appeared. The vacancies were so low that out of these only 10,564 candidates qualified for the exam to appear for the Mains. The number of vacancies has seen a variation from past many years. Those who qualify the Prelims appear in the Mains and then on qualifying Mains, they appear in the Interview. 

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