Indianmandarins has reliably learnt that the Civil Service Board which held yesterday (11 July 2016) cleared as many as 42 IAS officers for empanelment as Joint Secretary in Govt of India. The list will further be moved to the Appointment Committee of Cabinet for ratification; a process which may take another one month.
The 1999 batch of IAS is relatively a very small batch comprising of about 50 IAS officers. It is even smaller than the 1998 batch which included only 55 officers.
It may be recalled that altogether 42 IAS officers belonging to 1998 batch out of 55 were empanelled to be posted as JS in Govt of India. 23 officers (1998 batch IAS) were empanelled on 06 March 2016 and another 19 were empanelled in review which held in June 2016.