Rajasthan Administrative Service
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Rajasthan Administrative Service,or RAS, popularly known as RAS, is the supreme civil service of the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

. The recruitment to these Service is made on the basis of annual Competitive Examination. The officers are included in the state cadre of civil service officers.

The cadres usually start from a designation lower in rank than Indian Administrative Service
Indian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service is the administrative civil service of the Government of India. It is one of the three All India Services....

 (IAS) (one of the All India Services
All India Services
The All India Services are the three all India civil services of India namely the Indian Administrative Service , the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service ....

). However, promotee RAS officers gradually can take posts equivalent to IAS officers.RAS exam is organised by Rajasthan Public Service Commission
Rajasthan Public Service Commission
Rajasthan Public Service Commission is the premier commission of the Government of Rajasthan, for organizing recruitment exams, procedures for recruiting employees, officers to various departments of the government...

(RPSC) ,a Rajasthan government body.Generally vacancies of the RAS are open once in two to three years.
RAS Exam-Following courses are available tochose for the Exam.
  1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE & GENERAL SCIENCE (Compulsory)
  2. Agriculture
  3. Agricultural Engineering
  4. Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
  5. Botany
  6. Chemistry
  7. Civil Engineering
  8. Commerce
  9. Crop Husbandry with Horticulture
  10. Computer Engineering
  11. Computer Science
  12. Dairy Processing & Technology
  13. Economics
  14. Electrical Engineering
  15. Electronics & Tele-Communication Engineering
  16. Geography
  17. Geology
  18. Home Science
  19. Indian History
  20. Law
  21. Mathematics
  22. Mechanical Engineering
  23. Mining Engineering
  24. Philosophy
  25. Physics
  26. Political Science & International Relations
  27. Psychology
  28. Public Administration
  29. Sociology
  30. Statistics
  31. Zoology
  32. Anthropology
  33. Management
  34. English
  35. Hindi
  36. Urdu
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Sindhi

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