Provincial Civil Service (Uttar Pradesh)

Provincial Civil Service
Prāntīya Sivila Sevā

Service Overview
Founded	1 April 1937[1]
State	Uttar Pradesh
Staff College	U.P. Academy of Administration and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Cadre Controlling Authority	Department of Appointment and Personnel, Government of Uttar Pradesh
Minister Responsible	Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of Appointment and Personnel
Legal personality	Governmental: Civil service
Current Cadre Strength	1112 members (556 officers directly recruited by UP-PSC as deputy collectors and 556 officers promoted from Tehsildars)[2]
Selection	State Civil Services Examination
Association	Uttar Pradesh PCS Association
Head of the State Civil Services
Chief Secretary	Durga Shanker Misra, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary (DoAP)	Devesh Chaturvedi, IAS

Provincial Civil Service / Provincial Civil Service (Executive Branch) (IAST: Prāntīya Sivila Sevā), often abbreviated to as PCS, is the administrative civil service of the Government of Uttar Pradesh comprising Group A and Group B posts. It is also the feeder service for Indian Administrative Service in the state.^[3][4]

PCS officers hold various posts at sub-divisional, district, divisional and state level from conducting revenue administration and maintenance of law and order. The Department of Appointment and Personnel of the Government of Uttar Pradesh is the cadre-controlling authority of the service. Along with the Provincial Police Service (PPS) and the Provincial Forest Service (PFS), the PCS is one of the three feeder services to its respective All India Services.