Bengaluru: This country faces a severe shortage of IAS officers who are rumored to have begun to influence governance.
There was a deficit from nearly 63 officers and who could continue for years with the center who wanted to tweak the rules of the IAS cadre.
While the main seats are empty, at least 25 senior officers are burdened with many responsibilities.
For example, Batch officers in 1989 Rakesh Singh held the position of primary secretary for the urban development department and water resources in addition to becoming a BBMP administrator and the director of the Karnataka Milk Federation.
Country, with the power of IAS 314 cadres, has 252 today.
Of these, a dozen are in central deputation.
Things are expected to get worse because the center has proposed amendments to the level of India-6 administrative service cadres, aimed at empowering him to unilaterally attract IAS officers from state cadres.
Last month, the center had written to all countries that were seeking their opinions about proposals to change the rules of the IAS cadre on or before January 25.
Karnataka is fast in its response and among 11 countries oppose proposals that allow the center to choose the number of IAS or IPS officers from the country for central services without approval.
However, the country changes its stand in a week and is seen as a flipside of the government of ‘multiple machines’ in the state and central.
It raises the slugfest even when opposition parties blame the BJP leadership to place political considerations above the country’s interests.
They demanded the state government explain how it could part with the IAS officers when the country faced the crisis.
“This is why we encourage a strong regional party that can negotiate requirements with the center,” said former Head of Minister of HD Kumaraswamy.
“Double machines’ are just rhetoric.
In fact, the state government will not have a voice for bargaining with the center,” said the leader of the opposition Sidaramaiiah, who has written to the Chairman of the Minister of Bumavaraj Bommai urged him to reject the central offer.
Justifying government steps, BJP leaders said they would expand cooperation to the center when it was a requirement of hours.
“The principle of Federalism calls for a fair division between the state and the center in terms of monetary and human resources.
Karnataka only does its job in supporting the endeavor center,” said MLC n Ravikumar.
The thought center about amendments because there is a scarcity of senior officials.
Meanwhile recruiting all Indian service officers (AIS), including those from IAS, Indian police services (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS), and allocates for state cadres depending on the requirements, the mandate of their norms ensures 40% of their official strength to Central Deputy Reserve (CDR) and send Empaneled officers to central services when the center requested it.
However, only a few countries adhere to the norm and as a consequence, the number of officers about the CDR has dropped from 309 in 2011 to 223 in 2021; The percentage of CDR utilization fell from 25% in 2011 to 18% in 2021.
“It is very unfortunate that politics seems to befall administrative requirements.
At first, amendments contrary to the principles of federalism because it imagines the vest’s power in the middle to call the IAS officer for central service without respective state approval, “said Jyotsna Jha, director of policy and policy studies.
According to several IAS officers, this problem related to the change in the central recruitment policy was introduced in 1992 before being repaired in 2009.
The center reduced the annual intake of new officers from 130 to 80 in 1992.
As the norms of personnel and administrative reform (DPAR) placed their needs before The Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT), which allocates officers.
Karnataka began only to get two to three officers every year with the actual requirements of 10.
The situation worsened when the center reduced intake to 40 and did not allocate officers between 1992 and 2000.
Because this produced 1,500 vacancies in the state throughout India, they decided to increase intake be 150 in 2009 and 180 in 2012.