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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicCivil Services

Topic: Civil Services

Modi govt to slash IPS posts by 50% at Centre as ‘states refuse to spare them’

Home ministry has told states that central govt plans to to reduce Central Deputation Reserve quota of IPS officers from 1,075 posts to about 500.

These are the new steps Modi govt is planning to make civil services dynamic & attractive

The Modi government is seeking to expand the civil services reforms it began in its first term — introduction of lateral entry for example.

IAS, IFS officers will now be able to pursue PhD from their training academy in Mussoorie

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Uttarakhand signed an MoU with IIM-Indore and will also offer other research programmes for civil servants.

How the Indian civil services continue to remain a boys’ club

Of 88 secretary-rank officers in central govt, only 11 are women. At state and UT level, only one out of the 32 chief secretaries is a woman.

Govt pulls up ministries for not providing data to defend Sanskriti School’s IAS-IPS quota

Sanskriti School in Delhi was founded by a group of civil servants and reserves 60% of its seats for children of Group A government officers.

5 years on, batch of 264 Kashmir civil servants will finally start training

The probationers will start training at the Institute of Management and Public Administration in Srinagar Thursday, five years after selection. 

Modi govt plans overhaul of IAS, IPS, IFS to modernise services, eliminate redundant posts

Govt has asked all ministries to prepare detailed profiles of the services, to synchronise the system with contemporary governance requirements.

IAS resignations: Are civil services losing their charm in Modi era?

Three IAS officers have resigned from the service in the last one month. Kannan Gopinathan, an AGMUT-cadre officer, and Sasikanth Senthil, a Karnataka-cadre officer, resigned over ‘lack of freedom of expression’ and abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi government.

In IAS training academy, women civil servants are seen by male colleagues as husband-hunters

Women IAS officers were seen as seeking spouses among their own kind, because no one would marry them now that they were in the IAS.

Delhi now produces more IAS officers than Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka

While the overall intake of IAS officers is declining, 17 candidates from Delhi qualified for the service in 2017-18, up from just four a decade ago.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.