UPSC Vacancy – List, Seats, UPSC Vacancy 2023 Category Wise

UPSC Vacancy 2023

UPSC conducts the Civil Services Examination to fill the vacancies for 24 civil services posts which include All India Services like IAS, Group A Civil Services, and Group B services. Candidates preparing for the CSE 2023 must keep the UPSC Vacancy 2023 in their minds.

UPSC Vacancy 2023 Category-Wise

A total of 1022 candidates have been allocated to various civil services vacancies. From this 933 candidates have been finally shortlisted and 178 candidates are on the reserve list. Below we have provided the category-wise recruitment for All India Services, and Group A Services in 2022.

• Number of IAS Officers Selected Every Year
• Number of IPS Officers Selected Every Year

UPSC Vacancy 2023: Post-Wise

The UPSC Result 2022 has been declared on 23 May 2023 on the official website. Along with the result, the commission has published the recruitment for UPSC Vacancies 2023. A total of 183 IAS officers have been recruited followed by 38 IFS officers, and 200 IPS officers. Below we have provided post-wise recruitment for UPSC Vacancy 2023.

UPSC Post-Wise Vacancy 2023
Posts	Total
IAS	180
IFS	38
IPS	200
Central Services Group A	473
Group B Services	131
Total	1022

UPSC Vacancy 2023 Category Wise

Union Public Service Commission has declared 1022 vacancies also with the release of UPSC Result 2023. Below we have provided a category-wise breakup of UPSC vacancies 2023 that has been declared by the commission.

UPSC Vacancy Post-Wise [2019-2020]

Union Public Service Commission has declared a total of 1105 vacancies. The category-wise and post-wise vacancies will be declared after the completion of the CSE exam. However, we have provided UPSC vacancies of previous years that would give you an idea about the UPSC 2023 Vacancy List.

UPSC CSE Post/Service	Number of Vacancies
	2021	2020	2019
Indian Administrative Service	180	180	180
Indian Foreign Service	37	35	24
Indian Police Service	200	219	159
Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group A’	10	19	15
Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group A’	0	0	30
Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group A’	20	20	27
Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group A’	20	20	21
Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’	11	7	14
Indian Corporate Law Service, Group “A”	14	16	10
Indian Postal Service, Group A’	15	36	18
Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group A’	10	14	17
Indian Defence Estates Service, Group A’	8	10	4
Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group A’	59	74	74
Indian Revenue Service Custom and Indirect Taxes Group A’	41	41	40
Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group B’ (Section Officer’s Grade)	56	4	2
Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group A (Assistant Works Manager, Administration)	0	0	0
Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group A’	24	23	19
Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group A’	20	20	21
Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’	11	7	14
Indian Corporate Law Service, Group “A”	14	16	10
Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group ‘B’	17	19	9
Pondicherry Civil Service, Group ‘B’	6	1	0
Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group ‘B’	11	21	26

UPSC Seats 2023 Category Wise

The category-wise break-up for the UPSC 2023 Vacancy is not announced yet. However, candidates can refer to the previous year’s data to figure out the expected category-wise break-up for the UPSC Vacancy 2023.

Service	UPSC Vacancy
	OBC	ST	SC	UR	EWS	Total	Vacancies for PwBD
							LDCP	MD	HI	VI	Total
IAS	49	14	27	72	18	180	1	2	2	2	7
IFS	10	3	6	14	4	37	1	0	1	0	2
IPS	51	20	26	83	20	200	0	0	0	0	0
ICAS	3	1	2	1	3	10	0	0	0	0	0
ICLS	3	2	0	9	0	14	1	0	0	1	2
IDAS	6	2	4	10	2	24	0	0	1	0	1
IPoS	7	0	2	5	1	15	0	1	0	0	1
IA&AS	6	2	3	7	2	20	0	0	2	0	2
IDES	2	0	2	3	1	8	1	0	0	0	1
IIS	5	0	1	12	2	20	0	0	0	0	0
DANICS	2	1	1	6	1	11	0	1	0	0	1
DANIPS	6	1	4	4	2	17	0	0	0	0	0
PONDICS	1	0	2	3	0	6	0	0	0	1	1
IP&TAFS	2	1	2	5	0	10	1	0	1	0	2
ICLS	3	2	0	9	0	14	1	0	0	1	2
IDAS	6	2	4	10	2	24	0	0	1	0	1
DANICS	2	1	1	6	1	11	0	1	0	0	1
DANIPS	6	1	4	4	2	17	0	0	0	0	0
PONDICS	1	0	2	3	0	6	0	0	0	1	1
Total	203	60	105	308	72	748	7	6	8	5	26

Huge Increase in the UPSC Vacancy 2023

In comparison to the previous years, the UPSC 2023 Vacancy has seen a big jump. In 2021 the UPSC vacancies were only 712, and in 2023 the vacancy was 1011, and in 2023 the total number of vacancies is 1105. The UPSC UPSC 2023 Vacancy List can increase as well. The final vacancies can be more than the reported vacancies, and by the time final results are published after a 1-year long exam cycle, the vacancies can increase further. It happened in the year 2020, as initially, the vacancy was 796, but it increased to 836 after the declaration of final UPSC results. Below we have provided the UPSC vacancies for the last 5 years.

UPSC Vacancies of the Last 5 Years
UPSC CSE Vacancy 2023	1105
UPSC CSE Vacancy 2022	1011
UPSC 2021 Vacancy	712
UPSC CSE Vacancy 2020	796
UPSC 2019 Vacancy	896
UPSC 2018 Vacancy	782

Stages to Fill UPSC Vacancy

Every year, UPSC conducts Civil Services Exam to fill the vacancies. This exam includes three stages: Prelims, Mains, and Personality Test. One must clear all three stages of the exam to be recruited for the UPSC Civil Services Posts.

• UPSC Prelims – This is the first stage of CSE. Prelims 2023 will be conducted on 28th May 2023, and the results will be declared a few weeks after the exam.
• UPSC Mains – The second stage of CSE is called Mains. Candidates who clear the Prelims are only eligible for this round.
• UPSC Personality Test – It is the final stage of the UPSC exam, and those who clear Mains can appear for the Personality test.

After clearing all three stages of the Civil Services Exam candidates will have to go through various training programs such as LBSNAA training, SVPNA training, etc. The training period can last for 2 years. After completing the training period, candidates will be recruited for various civil services posts based on UPSC Ranks, and preference.

UPSC Vacancy Trend

The UPSC vacancies have seen a massive drop from 2014 onwards. However, as to government data, there is a shortage of IAS officers and IPS officers in India.  The commission is trying the meet the demand and reduce the shortage of IAS and IPS officers in the country. That is why UPSC Vacancy 2023 has seen a massive jump i.e. 1105. Below, we have mentioned the year-wise vacancies as released by Union Public Service Commission in the notification each year.

Year	UPSC Vacancy
2009	580
2010	965
2011	880
2012	1037
2013	1000
2014	1291
2015	1129
2016	1079
2017	980
2018	782
2019	896
2020	796
2021	712

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