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While the all-India services like the IAS and IPS are undergoing a major expansion,there is suddenly a glut in the IAS ranks with the promotion of over 400 officers from state services. The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie has reportedly expressed its inability to train these officers,forcing the UPA government to look for an alternative even as it plans an expansion of the existing institute.
For 12 years,state service officers were not getting promoted in states like Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan just because some of them had gone into litigation. We decided to intervene and get these cases expedited. As a result,in the past year,over 400 officers from eight states got promoted to the IAS,including over 200 in Uttar Pradesh and over 140 in Rajasthan. We have decided to send them to Hyderabad in batches for training, V Narayanasamy,Union Minister for Personnel and Training,told The Indian Express.
The Mussoorie academy,which trains IAS officers besides running a common foundation course for the all-India services and Group A central services,was learnt to have told the government that its facilities wouldnt allow it to train the rising number of civil servants.
The academy can house about 300 trainees at a time. Training facilities have to be upgraded as we increase the number of civil servants. We have given Rs 70 crore and five acres of land to the Mussoorie academy for expansion of facilities, said Narayanasamy.
While the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad was chosen to train the promoted IAS officers,the Indian Institute of Public Administration in Delhi is also being considered as a possible option.
