Let's Get started with the preparation of Indian Economic Service............

Hello friends,

                    We are a team of two people who would like to be more interactive with the aspirants of Indian Economic Service Examination conducted by UPSC.. First of all we must understand that it is not a tough exam and not meant for extra ordinaries.. but for who they are very much thorough with the basic concepts of Economics and who can use it in an extra ordinary way.... We would like to dedicate our efforts for beginners.... So as a beginner the first step of preparation is to get the syllabus of the exam and going through it word by word considering it as the best guide of the exam... Get the syllabus by clicking the link below.... 

 http://www.upsc.gov.in/exams/notifications/2012/iesiss/eng.pdf

                 Second step of preparation is to collect the old question papers as much as you can get but preferably of past 4 years... You can get it here.....

Question Papers of 2012

Books

General Economics-I:

• For Micro: Koutsoyyiannis, Ahuja or any other good book
• For Macro: Shapiro, Dornbusch and Fischer, Ahuja
• Referring to Books of Class 11th and 12th NCERT Maths book is also necessary
• Refer Class 12th book of CBSE for National Income Accounting

General Economics-II:

• For Monetary topics refer to SB Gupta (For both) RBI Report and M L Jhingan
• For International Economics prescribe Mannur, Soderston or any other book
• For Growth and Development refer to Baldwin, Meir and M L Jhingan and go through any one or two latest book of Amratya Sen

History of the service

 The Indian Economic Service (IES) was conceived by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru for formulating and implementing economic policies and programmes of the country. After independence, economic reconstruction and development was envisioned as one of the foremost objective and a challenge to the national planners. The most important prerequisite in this development process was the formulation of suitable plans, policies and measures for the effective utilisation of material, financial and human resources. It was in this context that Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru envisaged the creation of a separate cadre of economists for steering the economic development of the nation.

Cadre Control

The IES Division in the Department of Economic Affairs is entrusted with the responsibility of Cadre administration and management of the Indian Economic Service.

The main functions of the IES Cadre Division are all matters pertaining to the following:

About Indian Economic Service

• The Indian Economic Service (IES) is an organized Group ‘A’ Central Service.
• The IES was constituted in 1961 with the objective of institutionalising a core professional capacity within the Government to undertake economic analysis and render advice for designing and formulating development policies, strengthening delivery systems, and monitoring and evaluating the public programmes. With the initiation of large-scale economic reforms in 1991 and the proliferation of the regulatory role of the government, such analysis and advice within the domain of the service has increased manifold.