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1,510 IAS Posts Currently Vacant In India, 30 Lateral Entry Openings Through UPSC Not Enough A Representative image. (Wikipedia/Hindustan Ambassador) Amid the recent push by the Modi government to induct more private-sector specialists into different government departments at the level of joint secretaries and directors, experts believe that the lateral entry initiative is insufficient to bridge the number of vacancies in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), reports LiveMint. The government has hired just nine officers as joint secretaries and intends to appoint 30 more as directors and ...

Lateral Entry Is Fine. But What About Enhancing the IAS's Professional Competence? The fatal failing of the Indian bureaucracy has been its low level of professional competence, because once a young civil servant joins the service, he is shuffled among various departments allowing him no time to acquire expertise in any field. Enhancing the competence of IAS is required, but running it down does not help. Certain facts may help us to assess the issue of lateral entry more objectively. First, in the past too, experts were inducted at senior positions into the government without any advertisem...

30 persons to be recruited at the Joint Secretary and Director level

Centre to Induct 30 More Private Sector 'Specialists' Into Govt Departments Usually, the posts of joint secretary and director are manned by officers selected through the civil services examination and other tests conducted by the Union Public Service Commission and other organisations. A view of the Central Secretariat. Photo: Mark Danielson/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Government06/Feb/2021 New Delhi: In a major move, the Centre has decided to induct 30 more private sector specialists into different government departments at the crucial decision-making level of joint secretaries and directors. The...

Draft Science Policy Proposes Lateral Entry Of Experts, Free Access To Journals And Involvement Of Diaspora A researcher working in a lab. (representative image) (Flickr/FDA).  A new draft policy on science and technology has been unveiled by the Union ministry of science and technology, reports The Times Of India. The draft policy which was finalised after 300 consultations with 43,000 stakeholders over six months will now be up for discussion till 25 January. The proposed Science and Technology Policy, under ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ plan, aims to establish a system throu...