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there has been an alarmist response to the decline in the number of vacancies over the last four years (2015-2018)
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Contrary to a set of perceptions (including that of Ravish’s), cadre division of personnel between states had ensured that the creation of new states didn’t force an immediate rise in vacancies.
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the consistent fall in vacancies (around 40 per cent in the last four years) during the current government’s tenure seems more pronounced, as seven of 10 years of the preceding Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had seen a rise in vacancies.
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a report submitted by the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) which had suggested that any such rise in recruitment would disturb the pyramidical structure and compromise the quality of the IAS
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Now coming to the speculative reasoning being offered by observers for the fall in vacancies in the last four years, two important arguments have been articulated. One is centred around the belief that the DoPT is following the government’s push for “minimum government, maximum governance”, while the other is rooted in the idea that the government is looking to hire a few specialists through the lateral entry system
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Contrary to what Ravish wants us to believe, attempting the civil services exam to get into a few hundred elite positions of higher bureaucracy has always been of aspirational value and can’t be seen as a mass employment solution
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After conducting a meticulous study of the recruitment process of public administrators, the 2nd ARC said: “The permissible age for appearing in the civil services examination should be 21 to 25 years for general candidates
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However, implementing such recommendations hasn’t found favour with both UPA and NDA governments.
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Faced with a fresh round of agitations by students from the Hindi heartland in Delhi against questions on basic English in a preliminary test, the Modi government made English the qualifying component,