Indian Civil Services

All you want to know about Indian Civil Services

The Indian Civil Service, popularly known by its acronym ICS, originated as the elite civil service of the Indian Government under British colonial rule in India, and continues in the contemporary Civil Services of India, though these are now organised differently.

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Colonial Civil Service

Under the East India Company administrators of their controlled territories were engaged. These became the HEICS "Honourable East India Company Civil Servants"

There were two exclusive groups of civil servants during this formative stage of British rule in India. The higher employees who entered into "covenants" with the Company came to be known as "covenanted" servants, whereas those not signing such agreements came to be known as "uncovenanted". The latter group generally filled the lower positions. This distinction between the covenanted and the uncovenanted virtually came to an end with the constitution of the Imperial Civil Service of India based on the recommendations of the Public Service Commission, 1886–87, though the phrase "covenanted" continued to be used of anyone in a salaried position with a long term contract — including "boxwallah" peddlers.

The name Imperial Civil Service was changed to Civil Service of India. However, the term Indian Civil Service (ICS) persisted. The acronym "ICS" continued to be used to denote the covenanted civil servants. The Provincial Civil Service was also constituted on the basis of the recommendations of the Aitchison Commission, and this Provincial Service consisted of two cadres, Provincial Civil Service and Subordinate Civil Service. Further developments took place as a result of the application of the scheme of cadre organization to the administrative departments. Thus, for example, the departments of Forest and Public Works had both the 'imperial, and 'provincial' branches. The basic pattern of the cadre system in the civil service was thus established following the recommendations of the Aitchison Commission. Gurusaday Dutt was the first Indian to stand first in the ICS examination, in 1905.

By 1934, the system of administration in India came gradually to consist of seven All India Services and five Central Departments, all under the control of the secretary of state, and three Central Departments under joint Provincial and Imperial control. The ICS and the Indian Police (Service) were in the 'transferred field', that is, the authority for the control of these services and for making appointments were transferred from the Secretary of State to the provincial governments. It seems relevant to mention that the All India and class I central services were designated as Central Superior Services as early as 1924 in the Lee Commission's report.

After the partition of India, the parts of the service was renamed Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) in Pakistan while the Indian section retained the name Indian Civil Service.

List of Indian ICS Officers

Name Year of Examination Year of Joining Year of Resignation/Disqualification Rank Final Posting
Satyendranath Tagore 1863 1864
Romesh Dutt 1869 1871 Dewan of Baroda
Beharilal Gupta 1869 1871 Chief Minister of Baroda
Surendranath Banerjee 1869 1871 1871 (Disqualification) Minister in the Dyarchy Cabinet in Bengal, 1921-1926
Sripad Babaji Thakur 1869 1871 Commissioner of Belgaum, Bombay
Anandaram Baruah 1870 1872 District Magistrate of Noakhali, Bengal
Krishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir) 1971 1873 Member, Secretary of State's Council, UK
Brajendranath De 1873 1875 17th Commissioner of Burdwan, Bengal
Jnanendranath Gupta 1890 1892 Commissioner of Rangpur, Bengal
Satish Chandra Mukherjee 1890 1892 District Magistrate of Hooghly, Bengal
Akbar Hydari (Sr.) (later Sir) Prime Minister of Hyderabad
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (later Sir) Dewan of Cochin
Kiran Chandra De Commissioner of Rajshahi, Bengal
Sarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir) 1900 1902 Chief Justice of Rajasthan
Gurusaday Dutt 1903 1905 7th in Part I; 1st in Part II Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, GOB
M.S.Akbar Hydari (Jr.) (later Sir) 1917 1919 Governor of Assam
Ramchand Tekchand Shivdasani 1919 1921
Sukumar Sen 1919 1921 Chief Election Commissioner of India
Satyendranath Ray Chief Secretary of West Bengal
Subhas Chandra Bose 1920 1921 1921(Resignation) 4th
Girja Shankar Bajpai (later Sir) Governor of Maharashtra
Badruddin Tyabji
Sushil Kumar Dey
Saibal Gupta
Chaudhry Abdul Hameed Khan 1926
Ashok Mitra Census Commissioner
Nirmal Kumar Mukarji 1941 1943 Governor of Punjab
Kumud Kanta Ray Home Secretary of West Bengal
Debesh Das

Contemporary Indian Civil Service

In spite of relatively contemporary careers like management and IT holding sway over the country's youth, the Civil Services have still not lost the vast popularity enjoyed by them through the years, from the time of the British Raj.

The IAS or Indian Administrative Service replaced the ICS and the pre-independence structure of all-India services, provincial or state services and central or Union government services was retained.

The Constitution provides for more Civil Services branches to be set up by giving the power to the Rajya Sabha to resolve by a two-thirds majority to establish new all-India services or central services. The Indian Forest Service and the Indian Foreign Service are the two services set up under this constitutional provision.

Running the administration of a vast and diverse country like India requires efficient management of its natural, economic and human resources. That, precisely, is the responsibility of the civil services. The country is managed through a number of Central Government agencies in accordance with the policy directions given by the ministries.

The construction of the Civil Services follows a certain pattern. The All India Services, Central Services and State Services constitute the Civil Services.Today a number of coaching centers are providing civil service coaching,which concentrates mostly in Delhi and Trivandrum. Examinations for the state services are conducted by the individual states of India.

All India Services

Central Civil Services - Group "A"

Central Civil Services - Group "B"

  • Central Secretariat Service
  • Defence Secretariat Service
  • Union Territories Administrative Service
  • Union Territorries Police Service

State Services

References

External links

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