Indian Administrative Service
Administrative arm of All India Services of the government of India
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| September 2024 | Puja Khedkar, an IAS officer from the 2023 batch, was dismissed and arrested for submitting fraudulent caste and disability documents, with UPSC moving to cancel her candidature. |
| 2022 | Beginning of a new cadre allocation period where Forest Service officers are allotted to State cadres at the start of their service, maintaining an 'insider-outsider ratio' of 1:2. |
| 2020 | 581 corruption charges were filed against IAS officers during the year 2020-21. |
| 2020 | Central Bureau of Investigation arrested two district magistrates in connection with an illegal arms license distribution scandal in Jammu & Kashmir. |
| 2018 | Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Jitendra Singh, informed the Lok Sabha that disciplinary proceedings were underway against 36 IAS officers. |
| 2017 | A report revealed a significant shortage of approximately 1,700 IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers in the country, highlighting critical staffing challenges in the Indian administrative system. |
| 2017 | A Central Bureau of Investigation special court in Delhi sentenced a former Union Coal Secretary and two other IAS officers to two years in prison for their involvement in the coal allocation scam. |
| 2017 | Government records revealed that 379 IAS officers deliberately failed to submit details of their immovable assets (IPR). |
| 2017 | Yogendra Narain was awarded the Dean Paul H. Appleby Award for distinguished civil service. |
| 2017 | The Department of Personnel and Training reported disciplinary actions against IAS officers: one officer prematurely retired, ten deemed to have resigned, five had pension cuts, and eight suffered remuneration cuts. |
| August 2017 | The central government announced a new cadre allocation policy for All India Services, dividing the existing 26 cadres into five zones. The new policy required candidates to select zone and cadre preferences in a fixed, unchangeable order to promote national integration and an all-India character in the bureaucracy. |
| 2016 | The Government agreed to allow private citizens to file requests for prosecuting corrupt IAS officers, even without supporting documentation, through the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. |
| 2016 | Vinod Rai was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, for his distinguished civil service career. |
| 2015 | Government of India reported that 100 IAS officers were under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation for alleged corruption. |
| 2015 | A new designation of assistant secretary was created at the Central Secretariat to enable new IAS officers to be posted to Delhi for a three-month assignment as part of their training regime, allowing officers to gain experience in central government functions earlier in their career. |
| June 2015 | The Telegraph reported twelve IAS officers had gone missing, believed to be working for foreign companies like Microsoft, with potential termination of services for prolonged absence. |
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