Usually, bureaucratic posts are held by officers from the all-India services, such as the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), or Indian Forest Service (IFS).

In a lateral entry to the civil services, persons are recruited from outside the usual bureaucratic setup for certain posts in government departments. In India, this may include mid or senior ...

In 2017, the NITI Aayog, in a report titled India-Three Year Action Agenda, 2017-18 to 2019-20, regarding ‘Civil Services Reform,’ suggested lateral entry inductions. “Today, rising ...

× Also watch | India: 3 UPSC aspirants dead as coaching centre’s basement gets flooded in Delhi Lateral entry refers to recruitment ... Administrative Service (IAS) to fill mid and senior ...

The recently announced UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) results for 2024 have once again highlighted the extraordinary ...

Opposition political clamour over lateral entry into the bureaucracy ... has come 70 years later in India, largely due to the reluctance of the IAS to give space to others including private ...

The UPSC has called for applications for 45 mid-level posts in various ministries, marking the largest lateral entry exercise since 2019. The positions include director, joint secretary ...

The forty five specialists will be joining key posts of joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries in different central ministries of India Government. These posts are usually manned by ...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission (now replaced by NITI Aayog), has backed the lateral entry into the ... role in shaping India's economic reforms, said ...

But what if there was another path to becoming an IAS officer – one that didn’t require candidates to start in their 20s?

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday termed as an "anti-national step" the government's move of recruiting public servants through lateral ... officers of all-India services -- ...