With an acute shortage in the number of civil servants in the country, the recruitment of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers through the Civil Services Exam (CSE) has been increased from 150 to 200. The update has been made under the CSE 2020, after Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday, 24 March.

Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh in a written reply wrote, “For IAS, as per the recommendations of the Baswan Committee and with the approval of the competent authority, 180 IAS officers are recruited through CSE each year since CSE-2012,”

Earlier, 150 officers were recruited through CSE each year. According to him, “There was a vacancy of 1,510 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in the country against their authorised strength of 6,715, as on January 1, 2020. There were 908 vacancies of IPS officer against their authorised strength of 4,982”

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He further wrote, “”Filling up of the vacancies is a continuous process. It is the endeavor of the central government to fill up vacant posts expeditiously. Each cadre controlling authority intimates to the UPSC the vacancies to be filled up in the respective services through CSE every year through direct recruitment mode.”