Ever since the advent of the Liberalisation-Privatisation-Globalisation era in India, in the early nineties, the clarion call has been to privatise everything that belonged to the people and the ...

The government has ruled out lateral entry of professionals into the Indian Administrative Service to make up for the existing shortfall of IAS officers in the country. He said the shortage of IAS ...

The decision to recruit professionals from outside the bureaucracy into senior positions of the Indian Administrative Service could be the greatest reform undertaken by the Narendra Modi government.

Lateral Entry into UPSC: Nine professionals from private sector have been recommended for induction into the government as joint secretaries. The Indian bureaucracy is unperturbed by the recent ...

Lateral Entry in UPSC: The recent selection of nine private sector professionals as joint secretaries in the Government of India has triggered heated debates. Though specialists had been inducted ...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission (now replaced by NITI Aayog), has backed the lateral entry into the government but noted that it creates certain resentment ...

The lateral hiring initiative by the government for the bureaucracy may have stirred up a debate but the number of appointees is insignificant to bridge the gap, especially as India faces a shortage ...

IAS Officer Without UPSC Exam: The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is regarded as one of the most esteemed government positions in India. IAS officers serve as a crucial link between the public ...

Strange coincidence? Name of education minister Ram Bilas Sharma’s daughter, a medical officer posted in Narnaul, tops the list for two consecutive years through criteria chief secretary-headed ...

A fact-check into social media claims that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's daughter Anjali Birla cleared the country's top civil services examination without even appearing for the highly competitive, ...

A group of students of Savitribai Phule Pune University voiced their displeasure on Monday after former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, whom they had invited for an informal meeting, was asked to ...