New Delhi, April 21 -- The Centre on Sunday hailed the largest women representation in the history of Indian Administrative Services (IAS) with 74 women officers, making up 41 percent of the current batch of 180 officers.
A day before the Civil Services Day to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Jitendra Singh held a customary interaction with the Officer Trainees (OTs) of the 2023 IAS batch.
The officers are undergoing Assistant Secretary programme training, wherein the IAS Officer Trainees are attached to 46 Central Ministries for a period of eight weeks from April 1 to May 30, giving them early exposure to policy formulation and the workings of the Central Government.
Singh also said this batch of IAS officers...