Completed 100 years on 1 Oct 2026
Transition
- 1855: Open competitive exam for ICS in London; replacing nomination system
- system favored british canditates
- subjects == classical - greek, english
- 1863: Satyendranath Tagore - first Indian to crack ICS
- 1869 - Surendranath Banerjee, Behari Lal Gupta, Romesh Chunder Dutt
- 1919 Act, 1922 Simultaneous Exams
- first exam in India in Allahabad
- Delhi in 1928
- Lee Commission 1924 Oct 1926 PSC estd
- 1947: Shri HK Kripalani - first Indian chairman of public service commission
- 21 April 1947: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel delivered “steel frame” address to first batch of civil service probationers at Metcalfe House, Delhi
- now celebrated as National Civil Services Day
- 1950: Federal PSC became UPSC on Jan 26, 1950
- 1992: Smt. Rose Millian Bathew - first female chairperson of UPSC