Telangana: Group-I Preliminary Test to be Held on Oct 16

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) is making elaborate arrangements for conducting the preliminary test for the Group-I services scheduled for October 16.

TSPSC Chairman, Dr. B Janardhan Reddy on Tuesday convened a meeting with district collectors and other officials on the arrangements being made for the test. For the test, about 1,040 test centres are being constituted across the State. Candidates who applied for the preliminary test can download the hall ticket from the Commission’s website https://www.tspsc.gov.in/ from October 9.

Given certain rumours of postponement of Group-I preliminary test, the Commission sources have made it clear that test would not be deferred even if it was clashing with any other recruitment examination.

“If the preliminary test is postponed now, then it cannot be conducted for about one year as some or other examinations are scheduled on Sundays. So, there is no question of postponing the Group-I services preliminary test. All arrangements are being put in place,” sources said.

This is the first Group-I notification issued after the formation of Telangana State. Moreover, never in the history of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh State, have such a huge number of Group-I posts been notified. Earlier, the Group-I notification was issued by the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission for a total of 312 posts in 2011.

With the State government scrapping the personality test (interview), the TSPSC’s Group-I recruitment is a two-tier process comprising a preliminary test which is an objective type and a written examination (Main).

As announced earlier by the TSPSC, the preliminary test will be conducted in English, Telugu and Urdu. The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main exam will be 50 times the total number of vacancies available in each multi-zone following the rule of reservation.

Some posts notified:

• Mandal Parishad Development Officers: 121
• Deputy Superintendents of Police: 91
• Commercial Tax Officers: 48
• Deputy Collectors: 42
• Municipal Commissioners: 41
• Assistant Audit Officers: 40

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