Source: IAS Paper
There is an alarming rate of vacancies at higher levels of bureaucracy in India suggested a report by the parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law & justice.
As per TOI, the panel’s reports were submitted to Parliament on Wednesday which demanded an increase in efforts to fill up the vacancies. It highlighted the shortage of IAS officers since 1951 and added that vacancy position has increased to an alarming level at present. It underlined that there are only 4,926 IAS officers currently working whereas the total strength is 6,396 as per the civil list dated January 1, 2016.
According to the report, the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) informed the parliamentary panel that one of the main reasons behind the deficiency in direct recruitment was the late cadre review, which was done very recently to increase the number of posts. The employment rate has been low for the last 10 years, and the direct staffing was not possible at once as the training capacity for IAS officers was only 180 per year.