As of 2023, only 442 IAS officers were working with Centre against required strength of 1,469. The latest policy applies to IAS officers from batches 2010 and after.
RTI response reveals that only 80 of 236 joint secretaries at Centre are from IAS. Officers attribute trend to deliberate attempt under Modi govt to cut the service down to size.
HC directed Centre to provide all records on empanelment of IFS Sanjeev Chaturvedi, who claimed that despite having requisite qualifications, he was denied promotion to joint secy post.
Of 12 domain experts hired for the civil services as lateral entrants in 2019 & 2021, 9 are in service. There's also been a dip in applications for lateral entry posts.
Civil servants say this fall is part of a growing trend that reflects the government's attempt to break 'babu dominance' and address the crunch of IAS officers available for deputation.
Starting with the 2007 batch, IAS officers can’t join the central govt as joint secretaries straight from their state cadres, a DoPT office memorandum said.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
Civil servants do not wish to serve at the Centre. Long the tradition in Maharashtra, but seems to have widened now.