New Delhi (28.03.2022): A parliamentary standing committee has recommended that DoPT must “significantly” increase the annual intake of IAS officers in view of their 22 per cent shortage. This recommendation was made “keeping in view the evolving needs of Indian administration”. The annual intake of IAS officers was last increased from the Civil Services Examination-2012 onwards to 180.
A committee has now been constituted to arrive at a suitable formula to determine the intake of IAS officers every year from the 2022 exam onwards. According to the 112th report of the department-related parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances and law and justice, tabled in Parliament last week, the authorised strength of IAS officers is 6,746, which includes 4,682 direct recruitment posts and 2,064 posts of officers promoted to IAS from state civil services or non-state civil services posts. However, the in-position strength of IAS officers is only 5,231, of which 3,787 are direct recruits and 1,444 promoted from SCS/non-SCS.
The highest deficit between authorised and in-position strength is in Jammu & Kashmir (57 per cent), followed by Tripura (40 per cent), Nagaland (37.2 per cent), Kerala (32 per cent) and Jharkhand (31 per cent). The states with the least percentage of vacant IAS posts are Tamil Nadu (14.3 per cent of authorised strength), Madhya Pradesh (14.7 per cent), Haryana (15.8 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (15.9 per cent). The standing committee said that it had come to its notice that non-IAS officers were being appointed to cadre posts in some states in a few cases in violation of Rule 9 of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Cadre Rules, 1954.
