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up a proposal for lateral entry into Civil Services – the prestigious career option of millions.
In this article, we discuss the need of reforms in Indian Civil Services and whether lateral
entry system should be used or not.
Now the proposal is for selecting private individuals for appointment in the ranks of deputy
secretary, director and joint secretary.
Posts within the functional area which should be staffed by the relevant functional
cadre.
Posts outside the functional area for which the required functional experience may be
available in the All India Services, the Central Services, and among specialists like
engineers, scientists, economists, etc.
The Commission went on to recommend that the level of Joint Secretary and Additional
Secretary in senior management, outside the purely functional posts, “the areas of
specialism will broaden out and it should be possible, and it is necessary to provide for
mobility from one specialism to an allied specialism. At the highest level of Special
Secretary or Secretary and equivalent in Central Government, the factor that should count
most is one’s general managerial competence”.