UPSC Exam Centre for Civil Services Prelims & Mains 2023

UPSC has recently released the notification for Civil Services Examination to be held in 2023. And as you all know that Prelims and Mains exams are conducted separately, so here is the list of UPSC Exam Centre for Civil Services Examination 2023.

You can also find these exam centres in the official notification of UPSC, but here the list is arranged with states and union territories. And if you want to get a Centre of your choice, you should apply for the same as early as possible.

UPSC CSE Prelims Exam Centre

The main objective behind Civil Services Prelims Examination is to select only the serious candidates from the lakhs of people appearing for UPSC CSE. And so, there is a handful of exam centres in almost every state and union territory to manage them all. Some states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, etc. even have multiple exam centres and some have just one according to their population.

State/UT	Exam Centre
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh	Ananthapuru
	Tirupati
	Vijayawada
	Vishakhapatnam
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar
Assam	Dispur
	Jorhat
Bihar	Gaya
	Patna
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh	Bilaspur
	Raipur
Delhi	Delhi
Goa	Panaji
Gujarat	Ahmedabad
	Rajkot
	Surat
Haryana	Faridabad
	Gurgaon
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla
	Dharamshala
	Mandi
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu
	Srinagar
Jharkhand	Ranchi
Karnataka	Bengaluru
	Dharwar
	Mysore
Kerala	Kochi
	Kozhikode (Calicut)
	Thiruvananthapuram
Ladakh	Leh
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
	Gwalior
	Indore
	Jabalpur
Maharashtra	Aurangabad
	Mumbai
	Nagpur
	Nasik
	Navi Mumbai
	Pune
	Thane
Manipur	Imphal
Meghalaya	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl
Nagaland	Kohima
Odisha	Cuttack
	Sambalpur
Puducherry	Puducherry
Punjab	Ludhiana
Rajasthan	Ajmer
	Jaipur
	Jodhpur
	Udaipur
Sikkim	Gangtok
Tamil Nadu	Chennai
	Coimbatore
	Madurai
	Tiruchirapalli
	Vellore
Telangana	Hyderabad
	Warangal
Tripura	Agartala
Uttar Pradesh	Agra
	Aligarh
	Bareilly
	Gautam Buddh Nagar
	Ghaziabad
	Gorakhpur
	Lucknow
	Prayagraj (Allahabad)
	Varanasi
Uttarakhand	Almora
	Dehradun
	Srinagar
West Bengal	Kolkata
	Siliguri

UPSC Civil Services Mains Exam Centre

The Preliminary Examination solves the problem of reducing the candidates’ number to a few thousand, and so the Civil Services Mains Examination does not require a lot of exam centres in every state out there. Have a look at the list of exam centres because you may have to travel to another state.

State/UT	Exam Centre
Andhra Pradesh	Vijayawada
Assam	Dispur (Guwahati)
Bihar	Patna
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh	Raipur
Delhi	Delhi
Gujarat	Ahmedabad
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu
Jharkhand	Ranchi
Karnataka	Bengaluru
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
Maharashtra	Mumbai
Meghalaya	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl
Odisha	Cuttack
Raipur	Jaipur
Tamil Nadu	Chennai
Telangana	Hyderabad
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh	Prayagraj (Allahabad)
Uttarakhand	Dehradun
West Bengal	Kolkata

Things to Keep in Mind

• The Centres and the date of holding the examination as mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of UPSC.
• You should note that there will be a ceiling on the number of candidates allotted to each of the Centres, except Chennai, Dispur, Kolkata and Nagpur.
• Allotment of Centres will be on the “first-apply-first-allot” basis, and once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, the same will be frozen.
• If you cannot get a Centre of their choice due to ceiling, you will be required to choose a Centre from the remaining ones.
• So you are advised to apply early so that you could get a Centre of your choice.