The governance is suffering from "alarming levels" of a shortfall of 23% or 1,470 IAS officers as on January 1, 2016, a parliamentary panel has said. Further, while LBSNAA director informed the panel that the academy had the capacity to train more than 180 officers, the DoPT took an opposite stand.
In a report presented in Parliament on Wednesday, the parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law & justice said the shortage of IAS officers had been a perennial problem since 1951, but "now the vacancy position has increased to an alarming level" with only 4,926 incumbent officers (77%) against the sanctioned strength of 6,396 as per the civil list dated January 1, 2016.
The panel strongly recommended that all efforts be made to fill up the vacancies, either by utilizing the additional capacity at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) to train more IAS officers or increasing the training capacity.
According to the report, the panel was informed of 1,470 vacancies in the IAS - about 900 vacancies from the direct recruitment quota and the rest from states' promotion quota.
The DoPT secretary had told the panel that the direct recruitment shortfall was primarily due to two reasons - cadre review was done very recently, increasing the number of posts, and for 10 years, recruitment has been abnormally low. He stated that direct recruitment could not be stepped up all of a sudden as the training capacity for IAS officers was only 180 per year.
Moreover, if a large number of officers were inducted at one go, there would be a problem of cadre management.
The panel, however, noted that the LBSNAA director had informed it that the academy had the capacity to train more than 180 officers. The panel said it failed to understand why the lack of training capacity had been cited as a reason for not addressing the vacancies.
Governance suffering from shortage of IAS officers
By IndianMandarins - 2017-03-17 10:14:58
The governance is suffering from "alarming levels" of a shortfall of 23% or 1,470 IAS officers as on January 1, 2016, a parliamentary panel has said. Further, while LBSNAA director informed the panel that the academy had the capacity to train more than 180 officers, the DoPT took an opposite stand.
In a report presented in Parliament on Wednesday, the parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law & justice said the shortage of IAS officers had been a perennial problem since 1951, but "now the vacancy position has increased to an alarming level" with only 4,926 incumbent officers (77%) against the sanctioned strength of 6,396 as per the civil list dated January 1, 2016.
The panel strongly recommended that all efforts be made to fill up the vacancies, either by utilizing the additional capacity at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) to train more IAS officers or increasing the training capacity.
According to the report, the panel was informed of 1,470 vacancies in the IAS - about 900 vacancies from the direct recruitment quota and the rest from states' promotion quota.
The DoPT secretary had told the panel that the direct recruitment shortfall was primarily due to two reasons - cadre review was done very recently, increasing the number of posts, and for 10 years, recruitment has been abnormally low. He stated that direct recruitment could not be stepped up all of a sudden as the training capacity for IAS officers was only 180 per year.
Moreover, if a large number of officers were inducted at one go, there would be a problem of cadre management.
The panel, however, noted that the LBSNAA director had informed it that the academy had the capacity to train more than 180 officers. The panel said it failed to understand why the lack of training capacity had been cited as a reason for not addressing the vacancies.
