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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TopicLateral entry

Topic: Lateral entry

IAS officers losing their sheen under Modi govt, & where higher education funds are going

Shreyas Sharma -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

The IAS has thinned at the top of the bureaucracy under the Modi government

Sanya Dhingra -
Just 11 IAS officers have been empanelled by the government this year for joint secretary posts, down from 87 officers in 2014.

For lateral entry, Modi government struggles to get IAS-level quality candidates

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Modi government has so far received just about 4,000 applications, had expected far greater interest

Retired IAS officer takes the government to court over lateral entry move

Sanya Dhingra -
Former MSME secretary has alleged the decision will lead to ‘favouritism’ and may be exploited by ‘profit-driven’ business houses.

Hiring non-IAS officers as joint secretaries may be too radical a step for India

Shashi Tharoor -
India’s bureaucracy is the last refuge of the talented generalist, a tradition inherited from Oxbridge but long since abandoned by the British.

Weak demand makes expertise an orphan child

Devesh Kapur -
For many in the opposition, any decision to depart from the status quo is tantamount to the skies falling down.
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Opinion

RSS is warming up to Yogi Adityanath. CM has many more boxes to tick

+TFP D.K. Singh -
It’s not just the Opposition parties Yogi Adityanath has to contend with. His detractors within the BJP are no less formidable.

How IMF’s routine data critique was spun to discredit India’s growth story

Holding judges to account can’t be about collective conscience. It must fix a broken system

Economy

Modi govt’s PM internship scheme saw high attrition in Year 1. Just 30% joined, 41% quit midway

Udit Bubna -
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.

Defence

After Op Sindoor, India goes in for more Heron Mk IIs; Israel frontrunner for mega MALE drones deal

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.

National Interest

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

Shekhar Gupta -
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.

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