UPSC notifies the exam centres (cities) in the official notification. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) keeps adding the examination centres for certain exam. Rest of the exams have more or less same number of exam centres. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has a few exam centres across the nation. The names of the UPSC exam centres are notified in the exam notification itself. The UPSC exam centre numbers differ from exam to exam. This is because UPSC conducts some exams in the online Computer-Based Test (CBT) format.
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The UPSC exam centres are the designated places where the UPSC exams are being conducted from time to time. The UPSC allots the exam centres on the ‘first apply first allot’ basis. The number of UPSC exam centre’s districts are notified in the official exam notification, but the number of exam centres is made according to the number of candidates applied for the exam.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of the UPSC exam centres increased very much because the means of transport were not available easily and every candidate required the nearest exam centre from his/her home. This was the reason that UPSC provided a facility to change the exam centre for the Civil Service Exam.
The UPSC exam centres are notified in the official notification. Please refer below for the UPSC exam centres for different UPSC exams.
The number of exam centres is different for the preliminary and main exam because it depends on the number of applicants for the exam. The complete list of UPSC exam centres is given below.
| Agartala |
Ghaziabad |
Gautam Buddh Nagar |
| Agra |
Gorakhpur |
Panaji (Goa) |
| Ajmer |
Gurgaon |
Patna |
| Ahmedabad |
Gwalior |
Port Blair |
| Aizawl |
Hyderabad |
Puducherry |
| Aligarh |
Imphal |
Pune |
| Allahabad |
Indore |
Raipur |
| Anantpur (Andhra Pradesh) |
Itanagar |
Rajkot |
| Aurangabad |
Jabalpur |
Ranchi |
| Bangalore |
Jaipur |
Sambalpur |
| Bareilly |
Jammu |
Shillong |
| Bhopal |
Jodhpur |
Shimla |
| Bilaspur |
Jorhat |
Siliguri |
| Chandigarh |
Kochi |
Srinagar |
| Chennai |
Kohima |
Thane |
| Coimbatore |
Kolkata |
Thiruvananthapuram |
| Cuttack |
Kozhikode (Calicut) |
Tiruchirapalli |
| Dehradun |
Lucknow |
Tirupati |
| Delhi |
Ludhiana |
Udaipur |
| Dharwad |
Madurai |
Varanasi |
| Dispur |
Mumbai |
Vellore |
| Faridabad |
Mysore |
Vijayawada |
| Gangtok |
Nagpur |
Vishakhapatnam |
| Gaya |
Navi Mumbai |
Warangal |
As per the latest census, the number of districts in India is six hundred and forty. As per the latest government data, the number of districts is increased to above seven hundred but the number of UPSC exam centres is limited in number and the candidates need to travel from their hometown to the place of the exam. Sometimes, the exam district is far away and the candidates need to reach the exam centre early in the morning.
There are UPSC exams that are conducted for more than one day such as IAS exam, IFoS exam, in that case, the candidates need to stay at the exam place because the main exam centres are further less.
The UPSC is required to increase the number of exam districts in the present situation, but as per the latest notifications, the number of UPSC exam centres are the same.
UPSC 2024 Exam Dates & Schedule
Take a look at the table below for the complete schedule of UPSC 2024 exam
| Dates | Past Exam Dates |
|---|---|
| 16 Jun ' 24 | UPSC Prelims Exam 2024 |
| 14 Feb ' 24 - 05 Mar ' 24 | UPSC IAS 2024 Application Dates |
| 15 Sep ' 23 - 28 Sep ' 23 | UPSC Main Exam 2023 Dates |
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