Women Super 30 for Civil Service exam proposed by Union Minister: See details

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh proposed Super Women 30. Read below for details

The Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, in a videoconference interaction with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNNA), mooted establishing a training centre to help the women in preparing for Civil Services Exam in India. He named this initiative as “Women Super 30”.

Minister of State for Department of Personnel and Training, Dr Jitendra Singh asked Smt. Smriti Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development, to chalk out the plan for the Super Women 30 initiative.

There is a National Gender Centre in the LBSNNA and its functioning and objectives were explained to Ms Smriti Irani, present at the video conferencing event. In recent years, the participation of women candidates in civil services is increasing. In fact, until the preceding year to last year, women candidates topped the prestigious UPSC’s IAS Exam three years in a row.

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In 2014 – Ira Singhal, In 2015 – Tina Dabhi, in 2016 – Nandini K R topped the Civil Services exam. In 2017 also, Anu Kumari secured the All India Rank 2. These results have motivated the female candidates to prepare for civil services. The ratio of women IAS probationers to the males is 20 to 25%. This ratio needs to be increased to 50:50. This initiative can help the economically backward women candidates to compete with the mainstream candidates.

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Women Super 30 is an idea taken from the Patna based Super 30 initiative of Mr Anand Kumar. The Super 30 institute help the economically backward students to prepare for the IIT – JEE exams in India.

The recruitment of women candidates in the civil services will provide a more balanced Civil Services in India and which consequently help in women empowerment more rigorously.

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