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 ...

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 ...

To become an IAS officer, the candidates are required to qualify the UPSC CSE examination. Most of the candidates prefer to choose the IAS cadre due to its lucrative salary, associated benefits and ...

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 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 ...

The Manohar Lal Khattar government this year switched to “alphabetic order” for recommending a panel of five candidates to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to fill one post of the Indian ...

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 ...

There has been a constant demand for the government to take the initiative to fill vacant government positions in the country ...