UPSC Civil Services Coaching · Delhi & Online Learn from senior ex-Rau’s IAS faculty in small, personally-tracked batches — GS, optional subjects, answer writing and the interview, on one plan shaped to your strengths and your gaps. Nine rankers in the top 150 in CSE 2025 — see all results → Where are you in your UPSC journey? Pick one — we’ll point you to the right next step, free or paid. Build the map before you run. Read these, then start a structured programme. Start Here Free The five pages every new aspirant reads first UPSC Syllabus Free Prelims + Mains, decoded Exam Pattern Free Stages, marks and cut-offs Clear the one paper that filters everyone — concepts, practice and current affairs together. Prelims GS Course Concept-first, PYQ-led, test series MCQ Practice Free Prelims questions to self-test Daily Current Affairs Free Edited and mapped to the syllabus Prelims Test Series 2027 Full-length mocks with per-question analysis CSAT Free Clear the qualifying Paper-II CSAT 60-Day Crash Course Comprehension, reasoning and numeracy from zero Turn what you’ve read into marks — daily writing, evaluation and review discipline. Answer Writing Free The Mains method, explained Mains QIP 2026 Daily evaluated answers, GS 1–4 QIP Quality-improvement programme Answer Writing Evaluation Every copy marked by faculty in 24 hours Mains Test Series Full-length GS + Essay papers, evaluated Essay Framework + model essays Pick an optional that can fetch 300+ — and get taught it cover to cover. PSIR Optional Political Science & International Relations History Optional Foundation and crash batches Sociology Optional Shortest syllabus, heaviest GS overlap Anthropology Optional Diagram-led, suits science graduates Law Optional Provision, case law, application All optional batches Live fees and schedules Edited daily, mapped to the syllabus — not a 40-page dump to mug up. Daily Brief Free Today’s current affairs, syllabus-tagged Monthly Compilation Free Revise a month in one pass CA Compass Themes, links and connections Not sure which path is yours? Tell us your stage and optional — we’ll point you right. Free Demo Class 45 minutes on Zoom with senior faculty WhatsApp us Share your attempt stage and subject Interview Guidance Programme Cleared Mains? DAF sessions and mock boards Contact Call or visit Old Rajinder Nagar, Delhi GS I, GS II, Indian Society, Social Justice India ranks 131st on the Global Gender Gap Index 2026 17 Sep Art and Culture, GS I Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Kannada film artist Anant Nag 17 Sep Environment & Ecology, GS III Pygmy Hog: An Indicator of Healthy Grasslands 17 Sep GS III, Science & Tech Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 17 Sep Environment & Ecology, General Studies, Governance, GS II, GS III Swachh Seva Aankalan: Gram Sabha Validation of Sanitation Services 17 Sep Founded by ex-Rau’s IAS faculty — 12 years on the ground Our method comes from real UPSC classrooms, not a content factory. Anantam IAS is led by faculty who have spent years teaching serious aspirants in Delhi’s Civil Services ecosystem. The real difference is faculty judgement: what to study, what to ignore, and how to correct mistakes before they harden. Rau’s IAS Study Circle Old Rajinder Nagar Retd. civil servants Former UPSC interview panellists Classroom-tested teaching, faculty-led guidance, answer review, and interview preparation. Students across GS, QIP, Optional subjects, Hindi medium, and Interview Guidance. Rank holders trained through our faculty ecosystem over multiple UPSC cycles. Personalized guidance A plan mapped to your optional, attempt number and weak subjects. 01 Personalized guidance Every aspirant starts with a 45-min diagnostic call. We map optional, attempt number, language, and weak subjects — then hand you a week-by-week plan you can actually keep. 02 Comprehensive study material Printed GS books that actually match the exam, updated with the latest PYQs every cycle. Digital companions for revision on the go — one ecosystem, no scattered PDFs. 03 Expert faculty Retired bureaucrats, former interview panellists, and subject veterans — faculty who have sat in the room and know the signal from the noise. 04 Regular assessments Daily answer writing with next-day review, full-length Prelims tests every weekend, and Mains test series with handwritten feedback — not generic model answers. Live GS II — Parliamentary Committees Rahul Puri · 42 aspirants · batch cap 50 Broadcast-grade Zoom classroom Two-camera teacher view, switchable to whiteboard and slides. Recordings land in your library within two hours — never lost if life gets in the way. Aspirants per batch — always No 500-seat livestreams. Every Foundation batch is capped so your doubts, essays, and Mains copies actually get the faculty's time. Calls that happen when they will change something The same senior faculty stays with you for the whole cycle, so nobody has to be briefed twice. The call is scheduled around what is actually happening in your preparation — the opening diagnostic, a pattern showing up across your copies, a test that went wrong, the optional decision, the run-up to Mains and again before the interview — and any time you ask for one. Tue 10:00 – 10:30 Open Wed 14:00 – 14:30 Booked Fri 19:30 – 20:00 Open Current affairs that map to the syllabus Every article opens with Why in News? and closes with the exact GS paper it feeds. Linked inside every live class, so theory never lives apart from news. Tech that just works Android, iOS, web and the Delhi classroom — same login, same notes, same handwritten Mains evaluations scanned back in a day. How the whole system fits together → Build your General Studies preparation from the beginning, with Prelims and Mains taught together. Work on GS concepts, practise timed papers and prepare for the qualifying CSAT paper. Mains & Answer Writing Practise written answers, get your copies evaluated and prepare for the Mains papers. Optional Subjects Explore the syllabus, teaching approach and batches for your optional. Flexible Study & Mentorship Study around work, or get focused guidance on the parts of your preparation that need attention. Interview Guidance Prepare your DAF and practise for the Personality Test with mock boards and faculty guidance. See current batches, fees and enrolment details. AIR 28 Prachi Honey Interview Guidance Program AIR 44 Deeksha Chourasiya GS Foundation · QIP & IGP AIR 48 Aniket Ranjan Interview Guidance Program AIR 56 Samiksha Dwivedi GS Foundation · QIP & IGP AIR 73 Aakash Om Trivedi QIP · Interview Guidance Program AIR 96 Kashish Kalra PSIR Foundation & PSIR Mentorship AIR 106 Gaikwad Rutuja Ashok Interview Guidance Program AIR 116 Rishabh Sharma Interview Guidance Program AIR 143 Ayush Kumar GS Foundation · QIP · IGP Next cycle starts soon Want to be next year's AIR? Sit in a free Demo Class on Zoom, meet the faculty these nine rankers worked with, and see if the coaching programme fits. Integrated GS Foundation ₹1,35,000 all taxes incl. Live classes on Zoom + recordings Printed books delivered nationwide Faculty calls over video Prelims & Mains tests online Access across India — any city, any time zone Integrated GS Foundation ₹1,75,000 all taxes incl. In-person classes in Old Rajinder Nagar, Delhi Peer group, discussion sessions, library access In-person faculty sit-downs Handwritten Mains copies evaluated offline Hostel / PG partner network Free demo class · No obligation Judge us by one class, not by this page. Every claim above — the batch cap, the faculty, the answer review — is checkable in 45 minutes. Sit in a live session on Zoom, ask whatever you want, and decide afterwards. Nobody will call you to sell. 45 minutes A real class, not a promo webinar Live on Zoom Two-way audio and video, questions welcome Senior faculty The same people who teach the paid batch ₹0 Free, and no card details anywhere Inside the session: a syllabus-mapped concept walkthrough, live PYQ practice, one answer-writing exercise with feedback, newspaper-reading method, and an open Q&A on strategy. Reserve your seat Book a free demo class Four fields, under a minute. We’ll email you the Zoom link and the slot options. We never share your number. Expect one email with the link — not a call centre. Prefer to talk first? Message us on WhatsApp or read what the demo covers . 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Daily answer writing One Mains question a day, with a model answer to benchmark your own against. 01 UAPA Network Designation: Listing, Liability and Due Process 17 Sep 02 Kishau Multipurpose Project: Water Security and Cooperative Federalism 16 Sep 03 Youth discontent and the changing face of protest 16 Sep 04 Doping is now a deep-rooted culture in Indian Sports 14 Sep 05 Uniform Civil Code 14 Sep 06 India-Canada Relations: From Diplomatic Reset to Strategic Cooperation 12 Sep 07 Road Safety in India 12 Sep 08 Bankers’ Books Evidence Act: Digital Records and Court Certification 12 Sep 09 How should RUPPs be regulated? 11 Sep 10 Ladakh to get a Unique Elected Body under Article 371K 11 Sep 01 Chrome Shavings to Syntans: Recovering Protein for Leather Retanning 17 Sep 02 RCMC Exemption: Lower Compliance Costs for Small Exports 17 Sep 03 Federal Reserve Rate Hike: Spillovers and RBI Autonomy 17 Sep 04 Russia Sanctions Bill: Secondary Tariffs and Presidential Discretion 17 Sep 05 EPFO Wage Ceiling: Expanding Mandatory Social Security 17 Sep 06 FPI and FDI: Understanding Foreign Investment in India 16 Sep 07 Industrial Tourism: Learning from China & Exploring India’s Potential 16 Sep 08 Lessons from India’s Smallholder Farmers 16 Sep 09 Merchants face 0.4% fee on UPI payment above ₹2,000 16 Sep 10 DRDO VIMARSH: Source-Code Access and Defence Technology Absorption 16 Sep 01 Pygmy Hog: An Indicator of Healthy Grasslands 17 Sep 02 Swachh Seva Aankalan: Gram Sabha Validation of Sanitation Services 17 Sep 03 Chrome Shavings to Syntans: Recovering Protein for Leather Retanning 17 Sep 04 SPROUT and SpeedSeed: Testing Crop Traits and Accelerating Breeding 16 Sep 05 Kishau Agreement: Shared Storage, Federal Coordination and River Flows 16 Sep 06 Coal India Smart Mining: From Remote Sensing to Safer Operations 16 Sep 07 Nepal and the Loss and Damage Fund: Why Access Speed Matters 15 Sep 08 Wave-Like Heat Transport: Restricting Atomic Motion for Thermoelectrics 15 Sep 09 Moth Bean Resilience: Developmental Plasticity Under Moisture Stress 14 Sep 10 Gujarat Bustard Recovery: Habitat, Egg Substitution and Soft Release 14 Sep 01 Federal Reserve Rate Hike: Spillovers and RBI Autonomy 17 Sep 02 Russia Sanctions Bill: Secondary Tariffs and Presidential Discretion 17 Sep 03 Orbital Weapons: What the Outer Space Treaty Prohibits 16 Sep 04 Nepal and the Loss and Damage Fund: Why Access Speed Matters 15 Sep 05 India-Vietnam JCM: Defence Co-Production and Connected Supply Chains 15 Sep 06 Nepal Power Approval: Supply Windows, Circuits and Review Conditions 15 Sep 07 India-MERCOSUR PTA: Electronic Origin Proof and Expansion Talks 15 Sep 08 At BRICS, India must bank on the New Development Bank 14 Sep 09 UNSC Reform: Distorted power relations in the world make UNSC non-operational 14 Sep 10 BRICS Traditional Medicine Proposal: Evidence, Safety and Regulation 14 Sep 01 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 17 Sep 02 Chrome Shavings to Syntans: Recovering Protein for Leather Retanning 17 Sep 03 Stem Cell Advisory: Approved Care and Clinical Trials 17 Sep 04 China’s Open-Weight AI Strategy: Opportunities and Risks for India 16 Sep 05 SPROUT and SpeedSeed: Testing Crop Traits and Accelerating Breeding 16 Sep 06 DRDO VIMARSH: Source-Code Access and Defence Technology Absorption 16 Sep 07 GATCs: Expanding Measurement Verification While Retaining Enforcement 16 Sep 08 Coal India Smart Mining: From Remote Sensing to Safer Operations 16 Sep 09 Orbital Weapons: What the Outer Space Treaty Prohibits 16 Sep 10 NHAI 1033 Upgrade: From Emergency Calls to Coordinated Dispatch 15 Sep 01 CERD General Recommendation 40 and Reparatory Justice 26 Aug 02 Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis 17 Aug 03 Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts 4 Aug 04 Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage 26 Jul 05 Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record 26 Jul 06 Lothal Heritage Complex: Recreating a Harappan Maritime Town 20 Jul 07 Prambanan temple: Indonesia’s Hindu heritage site and the India connection 9 Jul 08 Syama Prasad Mookerjee: 125th birth anniversary of the Jana Sangh founder 6 Jul 09 Rakhigarhi Ancient DNA: What Harappan Skeletons Reveal About India’s Ancestry 23 Jun 10 The ‘Dancing Girl’ of Mohenjo-daro: Art, Identity and a Naming Debate 17 Jun 01 Kishau Agreement: Shared Storage, Federal Coordination and River Flows 16 Sep 02 August Ocean Heat: El Niño and Uneven Regional Risks 12 Sep 03 Bakhira Lake Sediments: Reconstructing the Monsoon Before Rain Gauges 11 Sep 04 ORV Sagar Manthan: From Ship Launch to Ocean Research 10 Sep 05 UN ‘Correct the Map Controversy’ and India’s Territorial Concerns 9 Sep 06 Equal-Area World Maps: UN Resolution and India’s Boundary Caveat 7 Sep 07 India-China Corps Commander Talks: The New Wacha-Damai Channel 7 Sep 08 Strait of Hormuz Exclusion-Zone Proposal: Transit Passage and Shipping Risk 7 Sep 09 Brahmaputra Mega Dam: Transboundary Risks at the Great Bend 6 Sep 10 Jammu Heroin Routes: Interstate and Cross-Border Trafficking Networks 6 Sep 01 India ranks 131st on the Global Gender Gap Index 2026 17 Sep 02 Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years 8 Sep 03 The Incongruity of Caste and Science 8 Sep 04 Tamil Nadu’s Birth Decline and the Demographic Transition 5 Sep 05 India’s Youth Power: An Electoral Force Still in the Making 4 Sep 06 Master Plan for Delhi 2047 Notified 21 Aug 07 Census 2027 Population Enumeration: Parental Data and New Fields 19 Aug 08 Extreme Heat During Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes in India 4 Aug 09 Nepal Communal Clashes: Secularism and Stability in the Border Belt 1 Aug 10 Odisha PVTG Nutrition: Anaemia and Adolescent Stunting Gaps 21 Jul 01 Doping is now a deep-rooted culture in Indian Sports 14 Sep 02 AI in Mathematics: Proof Verification, Understanding and Research Ethics 14 Sep 03 Judicial Integrity and Corruption 7 Sep 04 Return of Profanation as a New Political Language 24 Aug 05 SC calls on students to educate elders in Waste Management 20 Aug 06 AI Agents, Consumer Control and Accountability 17 Aug 07 AI-Designed Viruses: Scientific Promise and the Biosecurity Governance Gap 14 Aug 08 Animal-Free Research Methods and India’s Biomedical Testing Transition 7 Aug 09 AI-Fabricated Precedents: The Supreme Court’s Warning on Manufactured Justice 4 Jul 10 Calcutta HC on Public Parading of Accused: State Power vs Human Dignity (UPSC GS2/GS4) 10 Jun 01 Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Kannada film artist Anant Nag 17 Sep 02 Bharat Ratna and C.N.R. Rao’s Scientific Legacy 9 Sep 03 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Awards 4 Sep 04 Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis 17 Aug 05 Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts 4 Aug 06 Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage 26 Jul 07 Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record 26 Jul 08 Jagannath Dham Trademark: Protecting Puri Temple’s Sacred Identity 25 Jul 09 Mission Senehjori: Turning Muga Silk Waste into High-Value Yarn 21 Jul 10 Lothal Heritage Complex: Recreating a Harappan Maritime Town 20 Jul 01 UAPA Network Designation: Listing, Liability and Due Process 17 Sep 02 Youth discontent and the changing face of protest 16 Sep 03 DRDO VIMARSH: Source-Code Access and Defence Technology Absorption 16 Sep 04 Orbital Weapons: What the Outer Space Treaty Prohibits 16 Sep 05 India-Vietnam JCM: Defence Co-Production and Connected Supply Chains 15 Sep 06 Terror’s changing face, India’s counter-terror strategy 14 Sep 07 RBI Money-Mule Draft: Temporary Debit Holds and Customer Safeguards 14 Sep 08 Colombo Security Conclave: Rehearsing a Shared Maritime Response 13 Sep 09 CTED Propaganda Report: Beyond Content Removal 13 Sep 10 EU Cyber Resilience Act: Product-Security Reporting Begins 12 Sep 01 Nepal and the Loss and Damage Fund: Why Access Speed Matters 15 Sep 02 NHAI 1033 Upgrade: From Emergency Calls to Coordinated Dispatch 15 Sep 03 Nepal Power Approval: Supply Windows, Circuits and Review Conditions 15 Sep 04 Philippines and CDRI: Disaster Resilience Through Infrastructure Cooperation 14 Sep 05 August Ocean Heat: El Niño and Uneven Regional Risks 12 Sep 06 NIDM Review: Turning Disaster Lessons Into Preparedness 11 Sep 07 Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years 8 Sep 08 Anak Krakatau Eruption: Volcanic Ash, Aviation and Sunda Strait Risk 6 Sep 09 Climate Overshoot: The Peak-and-Decline Pathway 3 Sep 10 What are Hanging Glaciers? 1 Sep The shape of Prelims, Mains, and Interview — in one page. The syllabus, decoded What each GS paper actually tests, with PYQ counts per topic. Mains answer writing Structure, introduction, diagrams — the templates that score. How to pick the topic and build a 1,000-word answer the examiner rewards. DAF, mock boards, personality test — your last 275 marks. No. The Foundation programme starts from NCERT-level concepts and layers up. We run a week-zero bridging module specifically for aspirants from science, engineering, and commerce backgrounds — so day one of GS doesn't feel like you've walked into the wrong classroom. Yes — once. You pay the delta and we move your enrolment, recordings, books, and faculty notes to the new mode. We don't restart the clock and you don't lose any progress. Every Hindi-medium note is written by Hindi-medium faculty from scratch — not translated. Our Hindi topper ranks (including AIR 71, 2021) came through this programme. 100% of submitted answers get written feedback within 24 hours. When your faculty spots a pattern running across your copies — introductions, conclusions, diagrams, structure — they call you to work through it rather than leaving it in the margins. Full refund until the 14-day mark — no questions asked. After that, prorated until 30% of the coaching programme completes. Printed materials, once dispatched, are non-refundable. Foundation batches are capped at 50 aspirants. That's non-negotiable: it's the only way every essay, every Mains copy, and every doubt gets read and answered by the same faculty who taught the class. We run full programmes for PSIR, Geography, and History, plus curated modules for other optionals. If your optional isn't listed, book a demo call — we've placed aspirants in subjects we don't formally teach by pairing them with the right faculty. Yes. Every online class is recorded and uploaded to your library within two hours. Classroom students also get the same online recordings — so a missed day never turns into a missed week. You get a 30-minute private video call with a senior faculty, scheduled around what your preparation actually needs — after the opening diagnostic, when your answer copies start showing a pattern, after a test that went wrong, when the optional decision is live, and in the run-up to Mains and again before the interview. You can ask for one at any point as well. Topics are yours to set, and the same faculty member stays with you for the full programme. Yes. Our Interview Guidance Programme is what several of our CSE 2025 rankers (including AIR 28, 48, 106, 116) specifically credit. You get DAF analysis, subject-specific mocks, and mock boards with retired civil servants. Try us with a free Demo Class Sit in a live class before you commit to anything. A free 45-minute Demo Class on Zoom with one of our senior faculty — experience the teaching, the batch size, and the personal attention first-hand. No sales pitch, no pressure.