EBC's 100 Landmark Judgments Shaping the Policies of UPSC and Public Service Commissions in India – A UPSC-NALSAR Collaborative Publication

Eastern Book Company publishes the First Edition (2026) of 100 Landmark Judgments Shaping the Policies of UPSC and Public Service Commissions in India — a UPSC-NALSAR collaborative publication, with a Foreword by Dr. Ajay Kumar, Hon'ble Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, edited by Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao of NALSAR University of Law and Santosh Ajmera, IIS, of the Union Public Service Commission. A 410-page hardbound volume.

What makes this book unusual

This is not a commentary written from outside the institution. It is a joint publication of the UPSC itself and a National Law University, which means the hundred judgments were selected by the body that has to live with them. The question it answers is a narrow and important one: how have the decisions of the Supreme Court and the High Courts actually shaped the policies and practice of the UPSC and the State Public Service Commissions — on recruitment, selection, eligibility, reservation, evaluation, disclosure and discipline?

For anyone who challenges or defends a recruitment decision, or who administers one, the reasoning in these cases is the operative law. It governs how a selection list is prepared, when a candidature may be cancelled, what a Commission must disclose, how marks and cut-offs may be fixed, and where the limits of judicial review of a selection lie.

What the book covers

• 100 landmark judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts bearing on public service recruitment and selection.
• The policy impact of each decision — what the Commission had to change as a result, which is the thread running through the collection.
• Governance perspective — the judgments read as instruments of administrative practice rather than as case notes.
• The recurring themes of public service law: eligibility and qualification, reservation and relaxation, the selection process and interviews, evaluation, marks and answer keys, disclosure and the right to information, cancellation of examinations and candidature, and the scope of judicial review.

Who should buy this book

• UPSC and State PSC aspirants — a trusted resource on the rules and rulings that govern the examination they are sitting.
• Civil servants and serving officers, particularly in recruitment, establishment and administration.
• Advocates practising service law before the Central Administrative Tribunal, the State Tribunals and the High Courts.
• Public Service Commissions, recruitment boards and government departments framing or defending selection policy.
• Judges, academics and researchers in administrative and service law.
• Law and public policy students, and institutional libraries.

About the publication

Brought out jointly by the Union Public Service Commission and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, and published by Eastern Book Company. Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao is a leading legal academic and Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law; Santosh Ajmera, of the Indian Information Service, serves with the Union Public Service Commission.