Provincial Development Service
Provincial Development Service (PDS) (IAST: Prāntīya Vikāsa Sevā) is the Government of Uttar Pradesh civil service responsible for administering rural development programmes of the Uttar Pradesh and Indian governments.[2] PDS officers are recruited from a pool of applicants who take a competitive examination conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission.PDS officers, regardless of their mode of entry, are appointed by the governor of Uttar Pradesh.After that, they get promoted as district development officer or as project director of District Rural Development Agency or deputy commissioners of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (popularly known as DC MGNREGA) or deputy commissioners of National Rural Livelihood Mission (popularly known as DC NRLM) and later, chief development officer in districts or as joint development commissioners in divisions and as joint commissioners in Commissionerate of Rural Development.Due to the complaints, the Uttar Pradesh state government reserved twenty-eight districts of Uttar Pradesh for PDS officers.