The IES is an organized Group 'A' Central Service and was constituted in the year 1961 with the objective of institutionalising a core professional capacity within the Government to undertake economic analysis and render advice for designing and formulating development policies, strengthening delivery systems, and monitoring and evaluating the public programmes. With the initiation of large-scale economic reforms in the year 1991 and the proliferation of the regulatory role of the government, such analysis and advice within the domain of the service has increased manifold. ...The UPSC conducts a combined competitive examination for recruitment to Grade IV officers of the services of Indian Economic and Indian Statistic. IES exam consist of six papers namely General English, General Studies, General Economics I, General Economics II, General Economics III and Indian Economics. This book explains About IES, About IES Exam, Exam Pattern and structure, Exam Syllabus and previous year question papers of all six subjects from the year 2009 to 2018.
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panda is an Economist. He is awarded with Best Young Researcher Award 2016 for outstanding contribution to research and publication in the field of Economics by GRABS Educational Charitable Trust, Chennai. He has published fifteen books viz. Maritime History of Odisha (2018), Micro Economics (2017), Macro Economics (2017), Women Empowerment (2017), Odisha: The Soul of India (2016), History of Economic Thought (2016), Micro Economics I (2015), Micro Economics II (2015), International Trade (2014), On the Predictability of Mutual Funds Return (2012), Sri Krishna Speaks (2012), Sri Satya Sai Speaks (2012), and Sach is Life (2012). Over 30 research papers in the areas of Gender, Development Economics, Macro-Monetary Economics, Financial Economics and International Economics are published in various national and international journals. He is columnist Orissa Post Newspaper and published over 50 articles in the areas of Gender, Economy, Finance and Entrepreneurship Development. He is resource person of several national and international journals. For more details visit www.pradeepkumarpanda.weebly.com