West Bengal Civil Service

West Bengal Civil Service
*পশ্চিমবঙ্গ জনপালন সেবা*
Service overview
Founded	1950; 72 years ago
Country	India
Staff college	Administrative Training Institute, Salt Lake, Sector-III, Kolkata (Executive); Swami Vivekanada State Police Academy, Barackpore (Police);
Cadre controlling authority	Department of Home and Hill Affairs
Minister responsible	Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal and Home Minister
Legal personality	Governmental; Civil Service
Duties	Policy formulation; Policy implementation; Public administration; Bureaucratic governance; Secretarial assistance
Cadre strength	1646 members (Group-A) (2019) ; 454 members (Group-B)
Selection	West Bengal Public Service Commission (WBPSC)
Success Rate	0.5%
Head of the civil services
Chief Secretary	Shri , IAS

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.

WBCS Exams[]

Exam Phase	Paper	Time	Subject	Question Type	Total Marks
Preliminary Exams	1 paper (qualifying)	2½ hrs.	General Studies (8 topics including Reasoning, English language, History, Geography, Current Affairs, General Knowledge, General Science and Indian Polity and Economy	MCQ	200
Main Exams	Paper I	3 hrs.	Bengali / Hindi / Urdu / Nepali/Santali	Descriptive	200
	Paper II		English	Descriptive	200
	Paper III		General Studies-I : History & Geography	MCQ	200
	Paper IV		General Studies-II : Science & Technology, Environment, G.K and Current Affairs		200
	Paper V		The Constitution of India & Indian Economy		200
	Paper VI		Arithmetic and Test of Reasoning		200
	Paper VII		Optional Subject Paper I^[1]	Descriptive	200
	Paper VIII		Optional Subject Paper II	Descriptive	200
Total Marks					1600^[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 A	Group B	Group C	Group D
200 Marks		150 Marks	100 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]

Services[]

Services are allotted in four groups, which are as follows:^[8]

Group A

West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) WBCS (Exe)
West Bengal Revenue Service^[a] (WBRS)
West Bengal Co-operative Service (WBCoS)
West Bengal Labour Service (WBLS)
West Bengal Food and Supplies Service (WBF&FS)
West Bengal Employment Service (Non-Technical) (WBES)

Group B

West Bengal Police Service (WBPS)

Group C

West Bengal Correctional Home Services
Joint Block Development Officer (Jt. BDO)
Deputy Assistant Director of Consumers and Fair Business Practices
West Bengal Junior Social Welfare Service (WBJSWS)
Assistant Canal Revenue Officer (Irrigation) (ACRO–Irrigation)
West Bengal Sub-ordinate Land Revenue Services, Grade-I (SLRO)
Assistant Commercial Tax Officer (ACTO)
Chief Controller of Correctional Service (CCCS)

Group D

Inspector of Co-operative Societies (ICoS)
Panchayat Development Officer (PDO)
Rehabilitation Officer (RO)

References[]

^ About PSC, West Bengal wbpsc.gov.in
^ "WBCS officers list as on 01-09-2019" (PDF), Government of West Bengal
^ "WBPS officers list 2018" (PDF), WBP
^ "H K Dwivedi is new chief secretary of Bengal". The Times of India. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
^ "WBCS (Gr-C) new appointee of 2018", PSCWB
^ "Groups of Services of WBCS". WBCSMadeEasy. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^ "WB CM announces incentives for WBCS officers". All India Trinamool Congress. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ "WBCS Job Profile". Edufever Jobs. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2021.

Notelist[]

^ Post GST implementation Commercial Tax Service (CTS), Agricultural Income Tax Service, Excise Service and Registration and Stamp Revenue Service were merged into one service

External links[]

[1] About PSC, West Bengal wbpsc.gov.in

[2] "WBCS officers list as on 01-09-2019" (PDF), Government of West Bengal

[3] "WBPS officers list 2018" (PDF), WBP

[4] "H K Dwivedi is new chief secretary of Bengal". The Times of India. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[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.

[8] "WBCS Job Profile". Edufever Jobs. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2021.

[9] Post GST implementation Commercial Tax Service (CTS), Agricultural Income Tax Service, Excise Service and Registration and Stamp Revenue Service were merged into one service

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