UPSC Indian Engineering Services (IES) Examination - General Information
A combined competitive examination is conducted by the UPSC for recruitment to the Indian
Engineering Services (IES). Recruitment on the results of this examination will be made to
the Services/posts under the following categories
Category I—Civil Engineering.
Category II—Mechanical Engineering.
Category III—Electrical Engineering.
Category IV—Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.
The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination is approximately 300.
The number of vacancies is liable to alteration.
Reservations will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes,
Other Backward Classes and Physically Disabled Categories in respect of vacancies as may
be fixed by the Government of India.
Test Centres
Agartla, Ahmedabad, Aizwal, Aligarh, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bareilly,
Bhopal,Kolkata(Calcutta),Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwar, Dispur
(Guwahati), Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat, Kochi , Kohima,
Kolkata , Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji (Goa), Patna, Portblair, Raipur,
Ranchi, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Udaipur And
Vishakhapatnam
THE CENTRES AND THE DATE OF HOLDING THE EXAMINATION AS
MENTIONED ABOVE ARE LIABLE TO BE CHANGED AT THE DISCRETION OF
THE COMMISSION.
CATEGORY I - CIVIL ENGINEERING
Group A Services/Posts
(i) Indian Railway Service of Engineers.
(ii) Indian Railway Stores Service (Civil Engineering Posts).
(iii) Central Engineering Service.
(iv) Military Engineer Service (IDSE— Building and Roads Cadre).
(v) Central Water Engineering Service (Civil Engineering Posts).
(vi) Central Engineering Service (Roads) Group-A (Civil Engineering Posts).
(vii) Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) in the Border Roads Engineering Service.
CATEGORY II - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Group A Services/Posts
(i) Indian Railway Service of MECHANICAL Engineers.
(ii) Indian Railway Stores Service (Mechanical Engineering Posts).
(iii) Central Water Engineering Service (Mechanical Engineering Posts).
(iv) Central Power Engineering Service (Mechanical Engineering Posts).
(v) Indian Ordnance Factories Service (Engineering Branch) (MECHANICAL Engineering
Posts).
(vi) Indian Naval Armament Service (Mechanical Engineering Posts).
(vii) Military Engineer Service (IDSE— Electrical and Mechanical Cadre) (Mechanical
Engineering Posts).
(viii) Assistant Executive Engineer Group 'A' (Mechanical Engineering Posts) in the Corps
of EME, Ministry of Defence.
(ix) Assistant Naval Store officer Grade I (Mechanical Engineering Posts) in Indian Navy.
(x) Central Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Service (Mechanical Engineering Posts)
(xi) Assistant Executive Engineer (Electrical & Mechanical) (Mechanical Engineering Posts)
in Boarder Roads Engineering Service, Group 'A'
(xii) Drilling Engineer (Junior) (Grade A) in the Geological Survey of India.
(xiii) Central Engineering Service (Roads) Gr "A" (Mechanical Engg. Posts)
CATEGORY III - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Group A Services/Posts
(i) Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers.
(ii) Indian Railway Stores Service (Electrical Engineering Posts).
(iii) Central Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Service (Electrical Engineering Posts).
(iv) Indian Naval Armament Service (Electrical Engineering Posts).
(v) Central Power Engineering Service (Electrical Engineering Posts).
(vi) Military Engineering Service (IDSE) Electrical and MECHANICAL Cadre) (Electrical
Engineering Posts).
(vii) Assistant Executive Engineer Group A (Electrical Engineering Posts) in the Corps of
E.M.E, Ministry of Defence.
(viii) Assistant Naval Store officer Grade I (Electrical Engineering Posts) in Indian Navy.
CATEGORY IV - ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Group A Services/Posts
(i) Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers.
(ii) Indian Railway Stores Service (Tele-communication/Electronics Engineering Posts).
(iii) Indian Ordnance Factories Service (Engineering Branch) (Electronics Engineering
Posts).
(iv) Indian Naval Armament Service (Electronics Engineering Posts).
(v) Central Power Engineering Service (Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
Posts).
(vi) Assistant Executive Engineer Group ‘A’ (Electronics Engineering Posts) in the Corps of
E.M.E., Ministry of Defence.
(vii) Engineer Gr."A" in Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organisation;
M/o Communication and Information Technology (D/o Telecommunication)
(viii) Assistant Naval Store officer Grade I (Electronics & Telecom Engineering Posts) in
Indian Navy.
