IAS Vacancies at ‘Alarming Level’: Parliamentary Committee

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On a perusal of Annual Report 2016-17 of the Ministry, the Committee observes that shortage of IAS officers in this country has been a perennial problem since 1951. But now the vacancy position has increased to an alarming level. With the present rate of recruitment it will require decades to fill the existing vacancies.
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Vacancies in Civil Services has reached ‘alarming levels’. Parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice has recently stated that vacancies in higher level of Civil Services has reached ‘alarming levels’.


What does the Report Say?


The report was presented in the parliament recently.

  • The shortage of IAS officers has been a problem since 1951. But now, “the vacancy position has increased to an alarming level” with only 4,926 incumbent officers against a sanctioned strength of 6,396 (77%) as per the civil list dated January 1, 2016. The report Said.
  • There is a shortage of around 1,470 IAS officers as on January 1, 2016.

Note: Shortage of officers in key positions in government would affect governance.


Recommendation of the Parliamentary Panel


The panel has recommended that efforts need to be made to fill up remaining vacancies, either by:

  • Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) to train more IAS officers by utilizing the extra capacity at the Academy.
  • Increase the training capacity in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA).

The panel was informed of 1,470 officer vacancies in the IAS (about 900 vacancies) from the direct recruitment quota, and rest from states’ promotion quota.


Reasons for Shortage in Vacancies


The DoPT secretary has told the panel that direct recruitment shortfall was primarily due to following reasons-

  • Cadre review.
  • For a long time, recruitment has been very low. Direct recruitment could not be increased suddenly as the training capacity for IAS officers was only 180 per year.
  • Problem of cadre management.

Observation by the Parliamentary Committee


The Committee failed to understand why lack of training capacity is mentioned as one of the reasons for not filling vacancies of IAS officers.

On a perusal of Annual Report 2016-17 of the Ministry, the Committee observes that shortage of IAS officers in this country has been a perennial problem since 1951. But now the vacancy position has increased to an alarming level. With the present rate of recruitment it will require decades to fill the existing vacancies,” the committee said.


 

 


Comments

23 responses to “IAS Vacancies at ‘Alarming Level’: Parliamentary Committee”

  1. Anjani Roushan Avatar
    Anjani Roushan

    no issue…..i will be getting it this year only

  2. Shubham Raj Avatar
    Shubham Raj

    Ya right the fall is 400 seats since 2014 . At this rate total upsc seats will be only 500 is 2021 (the year when i will give upsc. God save the country the bueaurocracy and judiciary is dying

  3. Some crazy, short sighted thinking. Worse is that IAS/IPS salaries are paid for by the states (except when they are deputed to central Govt). State Govts are consistently demanding more IAS/IPS. And this man at the center gets some shadistic pleasure in controlling it. No other rationale appears in this decision.

  4. Dreamz Unlimited Avatar
    Dreamz Unlimited

    Thank You.
    Wish you the same.

  5. Aspirant-upsc Avatar
    Aspirant-upsc

    Bhai, I wish u come up with flying colours ths time ..u write good answers..
    All the best

  6. Dreamz Unlimited Avatar
    Dreamz Unlimited

    2 mains written…
    Preparing for 3rd prelims..

  7. Aspirant-upsc Avatar
    Aspirant-upsc

    Bhai, 2017 will be which attempt of urs?

  8. Lokmanya Avatar
    Lokmanya

    Pm applied the principle of min govt Max governance
    May be ?

  9. Bro. I know that..:-) but I think you did’t get what I meant..Long term ambition meant they want min. intervention of the bureaucrats..

  10. There is a shortage in almost most of the institutions required for running a big democracy like ours – police, administration, judiciary, armed forces, everywhere. A country with a huge population, largest youth population and a widely talked about demographic “dividend” reeling under shortage of manpower! I thought we could experience a shortage of anything – water, food, arms etc. but would never experience a shortage of manpower.

  11. That’s actually Max Governance and Min Government. 🙂

    Besides, IAS is an administrative job and would be required in much greater in numbers with ongoing automation of lower level jobs.

  12. you are right recruitment is decreasing year after year even IPS and IFS officers are in shortfall wonder why they are doing this?cant govt increase the training capacity

  13. Dreamz Unlimited Avatar
    Dreamz Unlimited

    🙂

  14. Hope the vacancies for IAS cadre may be reviewed in future notifications. But I think present government has some long term ambitions with “max. government, min. governance” without bureaucrats..

  15. I fail to understand why is there no outrage?
    Are we gonna accept each and every decision of Modi without questioning?

  16. If possible start a new discussion thread about this

  17. Reasons cited by the panel are clearly not true. They have been mislead.
    Recruitment drop is alarming since Modi Govt came. Just look at the following vacancies announced as per Civil services notifications (source: Mrunal mentioned it in the notification discussion)
    2013 – ~1550
    2014 – 1291
    2015 – 1129
    2016 – 1079
    2017 – 980
    Ie near 40% drop. Till UPA 2 it was consistently above 1500. It is not as if LBSNAA has reduced training capacity. 2016 IAS was only 90 ie 3 per state which is less than the retirements forget about taking cadre review into consideration.
    Please spread awareness about this drop. Forward this to politicians, media and common public who can understand the gravity of the situation. Forward the below tweet to all of them so that they can take up the same at different levels. Unless we make a noise the crazy man is not going to stop the trend. If we can generate awareness there may be a chance of increased intake even during this year.

    Check out @timesofindia’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/842274233405206528?s=08

  18. ForumIAS Avatar
    ForumIAS

    Let us see what happens.

  19. Ashwini Sharma Avatar
    Ashwini Sharma

    even i was quite blown by the shortage of training capacity as a reason for vacancies. It is a ridiculous reason because it has persisted despite being a very quickly executable/ doable thing.

  20. ForumIAS Avatar
    ForumIAS

    Yes, vacancies are decreasing despite shortage of officers.

  21. destination Avatar
    destination

    Despite the fact of shortfall of IAS officers in government..
    Vacancies slightly decreasing from previous year..
    No doubt capacity of LBSNAA regarding training of officers is one of the major concern..:)

  22. ForumIAS Avatar
    ForumIAS

    Good Luck Dreamz.

  23. Dreamz Unlimited Avatar
    Dreamz Unlimited

    Wish the intake is increased before i exhaust my attempt/age limit.

    Thanks Forum ias.

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