India’s Northern states reeling under shortage of IAS, IPS officers
New Delhi: India’s Northern states are reeling under the shortage of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, while Kerala is leading the vacancy rate in the country.
According to Kashmir Media Service, data submitted in Lok Sabha, lower house of Indian Parliament, show even though there is no backlog in the reserved category posts across the two services, the overall shortage in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab is 18.6 per cent for the IAS and 15.59 per cent for the IPS officers.
The combined shortfall touches 24 percent if Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and the AGMUT cadre (which includes Delhi) is factored in as 482 posts of IAS and IPS are lying vacant here against a sanctioned strength of 2,010.
The government further informed the Lok Sabha that 180 IAS officers are recruited annually with 4 per cent reservation for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities. It has attributed vacancies to retirements, expanding governance needs and cadre restructuring across states.
According to the data presented by Jitendra Singh, Minister of State in the PMO, Kerala, AGMUT and Himachal Pradesh are the top three regions in the country with the highest vacancy rate for IAS officers.
Kerala has the highest vacancy rate of IAS officers with 74 IAS posts lying vacant against the sanctioned strength of 231 (amounting to 32 per cent vacancy).
