Recruitment
The recruitment to the cadre is done through the Civil Services Examination.The first recruitment to the cadre was done by UPSC in the year 1980.Prior to that some officers of sister cadres had joined the service on option basis. The present advisors are from such groups.The list of officers of this cadre can be seen in their web site .
The selection consisting of written and viva-voce test which is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India along with other Group A Services like IAS and IPS IRS etc. The UPSC is responsible for recruiting middle and top-level bureaucrats for the Government of India.
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