Central Civil Services of the Government of India and State Government
Indian Administrative Service
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Motto: "Excellence in action"
Founded
1858; 166 years ago (1858) IAS 26 January 1950; 74 years ago (1950-01-26)
Country
India
Staff college
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
Cadre controlling authority
Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Minister responsible
Prime Minister of India and Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Legal personality
Governmental; Civil Service
Cadre strength
4,926members (3,511 officers directly recruited by the Union Public Service Commission and 1,415officers promoted from state civil services)[1][2]
Selection
Civil Services Examination
Association
IAS (Central) Association
Head of the Civil services
Cabinet Secretary of India
Rajiv Gauba, IAS
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The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India.[3] The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states. IAS officers are also deployed to various government establishments such as constitutional bodies, staff and line agencies, auxiliary bodies, public sector undertakings, regulatory bodies, statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
As with other countries following the parliamentary system of government, the IAS is a part of the permanent bureaucracy of the nation;[4] and is an inseparable part of the executive of the Government of India. As such, the bureaucracy remains politically neutral and guarantees administrative continuity to the ruling party or coalition.[4]
Upon confirmation of service, an IAS officer serves a probationary period as a sub-divisional magistrate. Completion of this probation is followed by an executive administrative role in a district as a district magistrate and collector which lasts several years. After this tenure, an officer may be promoted to head a whole state administrative division as a divisional commissioner.
On attaining the higher scales of the pay matrix, IAS officers may lead government departments or ministries. In these roles, IAS officers represent the country at international level in bilateral and multilateral negotiations. If serving on a deputation, they may be employed in International organization such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, or the United Nations, or its agencies. IAS officers are also involved in conducting elections in India as mandated by the Election Commission of India.
^"CADRE STRENGTH OF INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (AS ON 01.01.2017)" (PDF). Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
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^"Service Profile for the Indian Administrative Service" (PDF). Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
^ abBhattacharjee, Subhomoy (22 June 2017). "In defence of administrative continuity". Business Standard. New Delhi. OCLC 496280002. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
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