PPSC announces PCS exam date, 85K candidates to compete for 322 posts
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ August 5,2025
Punjab Public Service Commission has announces the date of Preliminary examinations of Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2025.
As per available information, Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) will conduct the Preliminary examinations of Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2025 on Sunday, 26th Oct -2025.
On January 3,2025, on the last working day of the former commission’s chairman, Jatinder Singh Aulakh the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) had issued the long-awaited notification for the Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2025 (PSCSCCE-2025) for 322 posts.
The PSCSCCE-2025 is being conducted to recruit officers for the Punjab Civil Service (executive branch) and as deputy superintendent of police, tehsildar, food and civil supply officer, block development and panchayat Officer, assistant registrar co-operative societies, labour-cum-conciliation officer, employment generation, skill development and training officer, excise and taxation officer and deputy superintendent of jails (Grade-II)/district probation officer.
The commission chairman Major General Vinayak Saini, SM, VSM (Retd) confirmed the same and said, “ We are going to conduct the exam in fair manner. The commission has received around 85,000 applications for the 322 advertised post.” On commission’s members vacant post he said “ I was told that the members selection process is going on and soon the new members will join the commission.”
At present the commission has once chairman and one member.
Punjab govt had recently appointed Major General Vinayak Saini, SM, VSM (Retd) as the chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) on May 7, 2025 whereas Harmohan Kaur Sandhu is the only member working in the commission and her term is going to end on August 19,2025.
After taking the reins of Punjab, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in August 2022 had reduced the number of members of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) from earlier existing 10 to 5 as the salaries, perks and other emoluments of those ten members were putting an undue burden on the state exchequer. Bhagwant Mann had said that the reduction is being done to make the functioning of the Commission cost effective.
Present government has not appointed any member of PPSC in its three and a half term but had appointed two chairman’s including the incumbent one.
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