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The first Commission at the provincial level was the Madras Service Commission established in 1930 under a 1929 Act of the Madras legislature. The Government of India Act, 1935 provided for the establishment of a Public Service Commission for each Province. Accordingly, under the 1935 Act seven Public Service Commissions were established in 1937 for the provinces of Assam (at Shillong),Bengal (at Calcutta),Bombay and Sindh (at Bombay),Central Provinces, Bihar and Orissa (at Ranchi),Madras (at Madras),Punjab and North-West (at Lahore) and the United Provinces (at Allahabad). All the State Public Service Commissions including the successors of the older Provincial Public Service Commissions came to be established after the reorganization of States after independence.

The State of Haryana came into existence under the provisions of Punjab Re-Organization Act, 1966 (No. 31 of 1966),with effect from 1st November, 1966, when the Haryana Public Service Commission also came into existence.