Training For Promoted IAS To Include 'All-India Perspective' Module

When the over 460 officers from various state civil services, who have been promoted to the IAS cadre, between 2015 and 2024, arrive for the detailed training programme at Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie, they won't have any option to opt out of the training, as is often the case.

Also, they will be given a new training module on "pan-India best practices" and "an all-India perspective", to ensure symmetry of what directly recruited IAS officers bring to the service.

According to the communications sent to the chief secretaries of different states including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) said, “The LBSNAA, Mussoorie conducts Induction Training Programme (ITP) for the officers promoted from the State Civil Services into Indian Administrative Service (IAS) to provide them an all-India perspective of the service and to expose them to the best practices across the country.”

In the official communication, a copy of which is with The Secretariat, the DoPT lamented that during “some of the previous cohorts, the officers nominated by the respective State Governments did not attend the training and sought exemption on various grounds at the last moment.”

The DoPT, however, asserted: “It may kindly be taken into consideration that the nomination once made and accepted cannot be withdrawn later.” 

“In view of the aforesaid, I request you to kindly relieve the officers, nominated for the said Induction Training well in time to participate in the training and the participants may be directed to report to LBSNAA, Mussoorie on May 4, 2025 (Sunday),” S D Sharma, the Joint Secretary in the DoPT, said in the communication. 

As part of the first batch 150 officers have been selected to undergo the 127th Induction Training Programme between May 5 and June 13, 2025 and they are expected to participate in this on ‘first-come-first-serve’ basis. “This is a one-time opportunity for those officers, who have been inducted into lAS to undergo this training,” it added. 

Out of the total 467 officers identified for the training programme, the maximum 106 are from Uttar Pradesh. The next is Tamil Nadu, from where 49 have been selected. As per the list prepared by the DoPT, 36 are from Madhya Pradesh, 32 are from West Bengal and 29 from AGMUT cadre. 

These follow 29 each from Gujarat and Karnataka, 23 from Telangana, 15 from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, 14 from Chhattisgarh, 13 from Odisha, 12 from Punjab, 11 each from Rajasthan and Nagaland and 10 each from Assam and Andhra Pradesh.

Among the cadre states where officers in single digit have been selected include Tripura (9), Uttarakhand (9), Jharkhand (9), Himachal Pradesh (5), Bihar (3), Kerala (2), Maharashtra (2) and Mizoram (1), as all together these officers belong to 23 cadres in consonance with their home states.