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The present civil services of India are mainly based on the pattern of the former Indian Civil Service of British India. During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallis reformed, modernised, and rationalised it. Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as 'the Father of civil service in India'.
The Central Civil Services (CCS) encompass the various Civil Services of India that are exclusively under the jurisdiction of the Government of India.This is in contrast to the All India Services, which are common to both the central and state governments, or the state civil services, which fall under the purview of individual states.
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
During the occupation of India by the East India Company, the civil services were divided into three — covenanted, uncovenanted and special civil services.The covenanted civil service, or the Honourable East India Company's Civil Service (HEICCS), as it was called, largely consisted of British civil servants occupying the senior posts in the government.
The Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India was set up under the chairmanship of Lord Lee of Fareham by the British Government in 1923. [8] [6] With equal numbers of Indian and British members, the commission submitted its report in 1924, recommending setting up of a Public Service Commission. [9]
Indian Administrative Service; Indian Forest Service; Indian Police Service; Technocrats and Academic Administrators who have held official positions of the Government of India and the respective state governments of the Indian Union. For lists of civil servants of respective cadres see: List of Chief Secretaries of Rajasthan
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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