(UPSC IAS PLANNER) All India Services
All India Services
All India Services:
The recruitment to these services is made through the UPSC on the basis of the annual civil service exam, a competitive exam. Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Forest Service (IFS) is considered as All India Services while others services recruited through this civil services exam is known as Central Services. The officers of the All India Services are recruited and trained by the federal Union Government ("the Centre") and serve in the various State Government ("the States") as well as Centre (which is why the IRSis a "central service" instead of an All India Service as they work only in the Central Government). Officers are organized into cadres, derived from the states they are allotted to work in for as long as they continue to be a member of the respective Service. Twenty-four states have their own cadre, but there are also three joint cadres: Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Union Territories.