In news

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has launched a toll-free helpline to help government jobs aspirants from backward classes and economically weaker sections.

Details

• It has been launched to assist candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Class (SC), Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), Person with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) who have applied or are intending to apply for the commission's examinations or recruitments.
  
• The initiative is part of celebrations under the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence.
  

• The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts civil services examinations to shortlist the country's bureaucrats, diplomats and police officers among others. 
• It is responsible for appointments to and examinations for Group A and Group B posts under civil services cadre and defence services cadre of the union government.
• While Department of Personnel and Training is the central personnel agency in India.
  
• The agency's charter is granted by Part XIV of the Constitution of India, titled as Services Under the Union and the States.