WHY IS CIVIL SERVICE CONSIDERED A DREAM CAREER?

Indian Administrative Service (IAS)

What it is?

The IAS is considered the premier civil service of India and is one of the three branches of the All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as individual states. IAS officers are also deployed in various government institutions such as constitutional bodies, staff and line agencies, subsidiary bodies, public sector units, regulatory bodies, statutory bodies and autonomous bodies. The work of an IAS officer includes making policies and advising ministers on various issues, maintaining law and order, overseeing the implementation of state and central government policies, collecting revenue and acting as revenue courts, overseeing the expenditure of public funds as per the norms of financial decency and dealing the day-to-day affairs of government, including the formulation and implementation of policy in consultation with the minister responsible for the relevant department.

What are the duties?

The work of an IAS officer includes making policies and advising ministers on various issues, maintaining law and order, overseeing the implementation of state and central government policies, collecting revenue and acting as revenue courts, overseeing the expenditure of public funds as per the norms of financial decency and dealing the day-to-day affairs of government, including the formulation and implementation of policy in consultation with the minister responsible for the relevant department.

What is Career Progression?

The IAS officer’s stages of promotion are:

Training:

• Phase I Training at LBSNAA
• Training at the district level in the allotted cadre
• Phase II Training at LBSNAA which includes a week-long foreign attachment with one of India’s diplomatic missions abroad
• Central Government attachment at the nominal position of an Assistant Secretary for three months

On Job:

As the career progresses (from top to bottom)

• Posting as SDM/Joint Magistrate/Sub Collector
• Posting as Municipal Commissioner, DDO/CDO
• Posting as DM/Collector
• Posting at State Secretariats at Director/Joint Secretary level.
• Deputation to the Central Government can be opted for during any stage of service after serving for a few years.
• Principal/Additional Secretary in the State Secretariat/Central Secretariat
• Chief Secretary of a state
• Cabinet Secretary

Indian Police Service (IPS)

What it is?

The Indian Police Service is a civil service under All India Services. It replaced the Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj.

Along with Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS), IPS is one of the All India Services – its officers are employed by both the Union Government and individual states.

The service commands and provides guidance to the State and Union Territory Police Forces, Central Armed Police Forces (BSF, SSB, CRPF, CISF and ITBP), National Security Guard (NSG), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Investigative Agency (NIA) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

What are the duties?

The Indian Police Service deals with the civil and criminal administration of the country, which includes national police administration legislation. The roles and responsibilities of an IPS Officer include implementing the policies that govern India’s domestic and local and state police administration. The main job responsibility of an IPS officer is to ensure that the people under their jurisdiction are safe and well-governed. IPS officers work with IAS officers to maintain law and order in the district. Some of the most important responsibilities of an IPS officer are crime prevention, accident prevention (social, economic, etc.), accident management, crime detection, registration for First Information Report, ensuring security in transportation of cash, taking measures against prosecution and recovery of stolen goods and providing permits for speakers, assemblies, political/religious events.

IPS officers are the bearers of law and order in our country. With their intensive training, knowledge, and power invested in them by the state, they are responsible for helping to run the country without chaos. After IAS, IPS is usually the preferred choice of rank for civil servants because of their active role in administration.

Career Progression:

Training:

Their training of is conducted at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) in Hyderabad.

After the completion of training period, they are sent to their state cadres. In states, they get the designation of Assistant Superintendent of Police.

On Job:

Difference between IAS and IPS:

History:

During the period of the East India Company, the civil services were divided into three – covenanted, uncovenanted and special civil services.

• The Covenanted Civil Service, or HEICCS (Honourable East India Company’s Civil Service) as it was called, was largely made up of civil servants who held high posts in the government.
• The uncovenanted civil service was introduced only to facilitate the entry of Indians into the lower rungs of the administration.
• The Special Service included specialized departments such as the Indian Forest Service, the Imperial Police and the Indian Political Service, whose ranks were drawn from either the contracted civil services or the Indian Army.
• The Imperial Police included many Indian Army officers among its members, although after 1893 an annual examination was used to select its officers.
• In 1858, the HEICCS was replaced by the ICS, which became the highest civil service in India from 1858 to 1947. The last appointments to the ICS were made in 1942.
• In 1861, the British Parliament introduced the Indian Councils Act, 1861. The Act formed the basis of a modern and professionalized police bureaucracy in India. It introduced a new police cadre, called the Superior Police Services, later known as the Indian Imperial Police
• Following the passage of the Government of India Act 1919 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Indian Civil Services – under the general supervision of the Secretary of State for India – was divided into two parts, the All India Services and the Central Services.The Indian Civil Service was one of the top ten All India Services.
• In 1946, at the Prime Minister’s Conference, the Central Cabinet decided to create an Indian Administrative Service based on the Indian Civil Service; and the Indian Police Service, based on the Imperial Police.
• After the enforcement of the Constitution of India on 26 January 1950, the Federal Public Service Commission became known as the Union Public Service Commission and the Chairman and Members of the Federal Public Service Commission became the Chairman and Members of the Union Public Service Commission. service commission based on provision (1) of Article 378 of the Constitution.

Choice by selected candidates:

Being an IAS is the primary choice of most of the candidates appearing for the civil services exam, they choose IAS as the primary choice and IPS as the second best.

2021 CSE Allocation

2020 CSE Allocation

2019 CSE Allocation

2018 CSE Allocation

2017 CSE Allocation

Training:

• IAS training is conducted at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
• IPS training is conducted at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, Telangana.

Cadre Controlling Authority:

• IAS: Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension.
• IPS: Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

Perks and powers enjoyed by an IAS or IPS officer:

Salary of IAS officers:

• According to the 7th Pay Commission, the basic salary of an IAS officer is Rs 56,100 per month.
• They are also provided with a range of other benefits such as travel and housing allowances. According to reports, an IAS officer gets more than 1 lakh per month in total salary.
• The salary of an IAS officer in the rank of Cabinet Secretary is around Rs 2.5 lakh per month.

Salary of IPS officers:

• The basic salary of an IPS officer is around Rs 56,000 per month and increases with rank.
• Every IPS officer gets a house and a car according to rank.
• Salary of IPS Officers as per rank
• Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) – Rs 56,100
• Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) – Rs 67,700
• Superintendent of Police (SP) – Rs 78,800
• Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) – Rs 1,18,000
• Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) – Rs 1,31,000
• Inspector General of Police (IGP)- Rs 1,44,200
• Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) – Rs 2,05,400
• Director General of Police (DGP) – Rs 2,25,000

Pay Bands:

• Different pay bands have been fixed for IAS and IPS officers. These include Junior Scale, Senior Scale and Super Time Scale.
• Apart from basic pay and grade pay, they get Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA), Medical Allowance and Transport Allowance.
• They have many facilities according to their pay grade, including house, cook and other staff. IAS and IPS officers will also get a car and a driver.

Pension:

• IAS or IPS officers enjoy lifetime pensions and retirement benefits.

Superiority:

• IAS officer of an area is superior to the IPS of that area.
• IPS officer reports to the IAS of the area

Uniform:

• There is no special uniform for IAS officers.
• IPS have to wear uniforms according to their rank.