Ministry of Home Affairs approves 41 vacancies for induction of Jammu Kashmir Administrative Services (JKAS) officers into the Indian Administrative Services (IAS).
After the green signal of 41 posts by the MHA and Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the matter will shortly go to the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) for final approval.
This induction exercise of JKAS officers into IAS has been initiated by the present government in Jammu and Kashmir. As per reports, the formal induction of JKAS officers into IAS will take some time as the UPSC needs to complete certain formalities before the meeting with JK government representatives.
The GAD had initiated the exercise for induction of JKAS officers into IAS after nearly a decade following fixation of seniority of the officers and clearance of all legal hurdles.
JKAS officers to be inducted into IAS will get AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territories) cadre as the Union Home Ministry has already merged erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir cadre into AGMUT as JK was made a Union Territory on August 5, 2019.
Tentative vacancies worked out by the government revealed that JKAS officers to be inducted into the IAS will be allotted different years of induction.
Once the process of inductions of previous years is completed by the UPSC, the government proposed to make it a regular feature every year so that the JKAS officers are timely inducted into the IAS like other States and Union Territories and not after nearly a decade as is the case presently in JK.
The induction will also provide help to overcome the shortage of IAS officers in the Union Territory.