Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) the erstwhile Madras Service Commission came into being under an Act of the Madras Legislature in 1929. This was the first Service Commission of India. The Madras Service Commission turned in to MadrasPublic Service Commission in the year 1957 with its headquarters at Madras. It was in 1970, when Madras province was changed into Tamil Nadu, the Madras Public Service Commission became the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC). The working of Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) is regulated under Articles 16, 234, 315 to 323 of the Constitution of India, the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Regulation, 1954 and the TNPSC Rules of Procedure.

Functions:

• Conducts examinations for appointment to the various civil services of the state.
• Provides advice to the government on Methods of recruitment to civil services posts
• Principles to be followed while making selections of the candidates and, promotions and transfers to civil services and posts. On disciplinary matter concerned with the civil servants
• Claim made by a civil servant with respect to the recovery of expenditure incurred by him/her in defending himself/herself in the court of law against the legal proceeding initiated by the government for not execution of his/her duty.
• Claim made by a civil servant in respect to injuries sustained by him/her while serving the state government.

Composition:

The current composition of the Commission is as follows :

Hon'ble Chairman :Thiru A.M.Kasiviswanathan,IAS (Retd.)
Hon'ble Members

• Tmt. B. Neelambikai
• Tmt. N.G. Kalai Selvi
• Thiru. R.Subramanian
• Tmt. C.D.Thilagavathi
• Dr. R.Narayanasamy
• Thiru M. Ramasamy
• Thiru T.Sankaralingam
• Dr.K.Lakshmanan
• Tmt.M.Shobini
• Thiru P.S.Mohammed Ali Jinnah
• Dr.S.Xavier Jesu Raja
• Dr. K. M. Ravi
• Thiru. G. Shanmuga Murugan
• Thiru. K. K. Raja

Secretary: Thiru. Ramesh Chand Meena, I.A.S.
Controller of Examinations : Thiru. R.Lalvena, I.A.S.

Procedure of Selection:

(I) Posts included in Group - I Services

The selection to the posts included in Group - I Services, will be made in three successive stages viz.,

1. Preliminary Examination for selection of candidates for admission to the Main Written Examination
2. Main Written Examination and
3. Oral test in the shape of an Interview.

The Preliminary Examination is meant to serve as a screening test only. Themarks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Written Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Written Examination will be ten times the number of candidates to be recruited having regard to the rule of reservation of appointments. However, in each reservation group, all the candidates, who secure the same marks as that of the cut off marks of their reservation groups shall also be admitted to the Main Written Examination, though the number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Written Examination may exceed 1:10 ratio.

(II) Posts for which selection is made on the basis of Written Examination and Oral Test

Where the selection is made on the basis of both, Main Written Examination/Written Examination and Oral Test, the Main Written Examination/Written Examination will precede the Oral Test. If the number of vacancies notified/reserved to be filled up for any one or more of thereservation groups (viz., Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Most Backward Classes/ Denotified Communities, Backward Classes or General Turn) is five and above, the number of candidates to be admitted to the Oral Test shall be two times the number of vacancies for which recruitment has to be made against thosereservation groups based on the marks obtained by the candidates at the Main Written Examination or Written Examination, as the case may be. Similarly, if the number of vacancies in any one or more of the remainingreservation groups for the same recruitment is four and below, the number of candidates to be admitted to the Oral Test from those particularreservation group(s) shall be three times the number of vacancies for which recruitment has to be made against those reservation group(s). In respect of the posts, the total cadre strength of which is one only and for which the rule of reservation of appointments does not apply, the number of candidates to be admitted to the oral test on the basis of the marks obtained at the Written Examination will be three. The final selection will be made on the basis of the total marks obtained by the candidates at the Main Written Examination or Written Examination, as the case may be, and Oral Test taken together subject tothe rule of reservation of appointments wherever it applies. Appearance in all the papers at the Main Written Examination/Written Examination and for Oral Test is compulsory. The candidates who have not appeared for any of the subjects in the Main Written Examination/Written Examination will not be considered for selection even if they secure the minimum qualifying marks for selection.

The marks obtained by the candidates appearing for the Oral Test, both in the Written Examination as well as in the Oral Test will be placed in the Notice Board in the Office of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission in the evening either on the last day fixed for Oral Test or on the succeeding working day. The same will also be made available on the Internet in the Commission’s website www.tnpsc.org

(III) Post for which selection is made on the basis of Written Examination only

The selection will be made on the basis of the marks obtained by the candidates in the Written Examination only, subject to the rule of reservation of appointments.

Contact Address:

Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC)
Omanthoorar Government Estate
Anna Salai, Chennai-600002
TN INDIA
Phone : 044 - 25368091 to 25368095
Fax : 044 - 25381893
Website: http://www.tnpsc.gov.in