West Bengal Civil Service

West Bengal Civil Service (Executive), popularly known as W.B.C.S.(Exe), is the civil service of the Indian state of West Bengal. For the WBCS (Exe) and other comparative posts, Public Service Commission of West Bengal arranges competitive examinations every year in three phases every year. These phases are Preliminary, Mains and Personality Test.

West Bengal Civil Service
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ জনপালন সেবা
Service overview
Founded1988 (1988)
CountryIndia
Staff college
  • Administrative Training Institute, Salt Lake, Sector-III, Kolkata (Executive)
  • Swami Vivekanada State Police Academy, Barackpore (Police)
Cadre controlling authorityDepartment of Home (West Bengal)
Minister responsibleMamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal and Home Minister
Legal personalityGovernmental; Civil Service
DutiesPolicy formulation
Policy implementation
Public administration
Bureaucratic governance
Secretarial assistance
Cadre strength1646 members (Group-A) (2019)[1]
454 members (Group-B)[2]
SelectionPublic Service Commission, West Bengal (PSCWB)
Success Rate0.5%
Head of the civil services
Chief SecretaryShri Rajiva Sinha, IAS[3][4]

WBCS Exams
Exam PhasePaperTimeSubjectQuestion TypeTotal Marks
Preliminary Exams1 paper (qualifying)2½ hrs.General Studies (8 topics including Reasoning, English language, History, Geography, Current Affairs, General Knowledge, General Science and Indian Polity and EconomyMCQ200
Main ExamsPaper I3 hrs.Bengali / Hindi / Urdu / Nepali/SantaliDescriptive200
Paper IIEnglish200
Paper IIIGeneral Studies-I : History & GeographyMCQ200
Paper IVGeneral Studies-II : Science & Technology, Environment, G.K and Current Affairs200
Paper VThe Constitution of India & Indian Economy200
Paper VIArithmetic and Test of Reasoning200
Paper VIIOptional Subject Paper I[1]Descriptive200
Paper VIIIOptional Subject Paper II200
Total Marks1600[2]
  • 1 Only one optional subject is to be taken from the prescribed list.
  • Optional paper is only for those candidates who opted for Group A & B
  • 2 Total marks are 1200 in case of Group C and D candidates
Personality Tests
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
200 Marks150 Marks100 Marks

Usually, online form fill up begins for WBCS in the month of November. Preliminary Exam is held in the Last week of January or first week of February at different cities of West Bengal. Post the publication of Preliminary results, Mains Exams are held in June–July in some selected institutions of Kolkata city and at the office of WBPSC. The candidates who passed in Mains are called for Personality test. At last, a selection list is issued by PSC consisting the name of qualified candidates of Mains Exams and Personality test. All these processes take up to one and a half year.

Recruitment

There are different groups in recruitment of such examination based on choice and merit of scored number. These are Group A, Group B (only for West Bengal Police Service ), Group C[5] and Group D. The WBCS (Exe) officers belong to Group A . In general, As per record of the WBPSC the candidates with higher scores opt for WBCS (Exe), WBPS and some allied services like erstwhile WBCTS etc as their first choice. Since 1988 some of the top ranked candidates have opted an allied service called WB commercial Tax Service (WBCTS) as their first choice due to less strenuous nature of the service and the lure of metro posting. Only WBCS (Exe) & WBCTS cadres are considered to be the State Civil Service by UPSC for direct promotion to IAS and WBPS officers are promoted to IPS after 7 to 9 years of service in state police service.[6]

Functions

The WBCS (Exe) officers are usually appointed as deputy magistrates or deputy collectors on probation and after completion of two years of mandatory administrative training under the tutelage of Administrative Training Institute, start their career as Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector and Block Development (B.D.O.) Officers. They also pass order in Executive Magistrate Court and execute some sections of Criminal Procedure Code. The officers of the cadre perform the key administrative functions at different levels of various departments of the state. The highest position WBCS (Exe) officers can attain is that of Departmental secretary. Three posts of district magistrate in the State of West Bengal is reserved for these officers. WBCS (Exe) officers may also be nominated at a later stage of their career to become Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers.[7]

See also
  • Public Service Commission, West Bengal
  • West Bengal Police Service

References
  1. "WBCS officers list as on 01-09-2019" (PDF), Government of West Bengal
  2. "WBPS officers list 2018" (PDF), WBP
  3. "List of Secretaries". Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  4. IAS officers in West Bengal as on 02.08.2018
  5. "WBCS (Gr-C) new appointee of 2018", PSCWB
  6. "Groups of Services of WBCS". WBCSMadeEasy. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  7. "WB CM announces incentives for WBCS officers". All India Trinamool Congress. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
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