Central Government has finalized a new policy for cadre allocation for IAS,IPS and IFS and other officers,aimed to ensure the "national integrity" in the country's top bureaucracy. Officers of all-India services -the Indian Administrative Service(IAS),Indian Police Service(IPS) and Indian Forest Service(IFS)-will have to choose cadre from a set of zones instead of states .The officers of three services are currently allocated a cadre state or a set of states to work in .The existing 26 cadre has been divided into 5 zones in the new policy proposed by the government.
- ZONE -I ---- 7 cadres (Arunachal Pradesh,Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories),Jammu Kashmir,Himachal Pradesh,Uttrakhand,Rajasthan,Punjab and Haryana.
- ZONE-II --- Uttar Pradesh,Bihar,Jharkhand and Odisha.
- ZONE-III--- Gujarat,Maharashtra,madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh.
- ZONE-IV--- West Bengal,Sikkim,Assam-Meghalaya,Manipur and Nagaland.
- ZONE- V --- Telangana,Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka,Tamil Nadu and Kerla.
The new policy will seek to ensure that officers from Bihar ,for instance ,will get to work in south eastern and north eastern states,which may not be their preferred cadres and which will further help to ensure national integration of the bureaucracy as officers will get to work in a state which is not their place of domicile.
Variation in cadre allocation for All India Service and division of existing 26 cadre into 5 Zones will help to ensure national integration in bureaucracy to much extent.
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