I,m a PMS officer from 2nd batch........... here, a few friends tried to differentiat PCS from PMS and led the readers astray...
1)Provincial Civil Service(PCS) was made up of three branches
a)PCS-Executive
b)PCS-Secretariat branch(provinicial secretariat service...PSS)
c)PCS-Judicial branch;
All these three streams put together made Provicial civil service(PCS) but in common understanding PCS stood for Executive Branch;
2)...PPSC conducted combined competitive examination for the Posts of Extra Assistant commissioners and Section officers....... the toppers usually joined Executive branch whereas the left over joined secretariat branch...... here its important to mention after the exam the two streams separated once for all.. Erst while EAC served in the field doing Magistarial duties whereas, section officers worked their whole careers in the head quarters.
After Devolution plan in 2001,Magistarial System was abolished and field officers were redisgnated as DDOs.DOs,and EDOs.......
PMS,was created in 2004,whereby all streams were merged and multipurpose service was created with enormous horizantal mobility.... PMS officers unlike PCS are simultaneously field officers and serve in the secretariat.... like DMGs.They can serve and are serving in every provincial department..As i,m serving in judiciary as special judicial magistrate, my batchmates are serving as DDO(R),(C),(G),(S), (colony),(HRM)(registration)DMOs,AD(ACE),SJMs,D.D (LDA),Dy.Project Managers(PIWCP).PRSP,SOs.......... many of them as Administrators of TMAs....,TMOs,Political Assistants etc....... PMS is entirely a new job with enormous scope..........