Why we do not have Indian Teaching Services or ITS in the line of Indian Administrative Services (IAS) or Indian Police Services (IPS)? Yesterday I was watching Bollywood movie Aarakshan on TV (missed it in theater) and in one of the scene main protagonist played by Amitabh Bachchan has asked that question. This really made me think and yes there are many services in elite Union Public Services (UPSC) exam apart from IAS and IPS.
The well known civil services exam which has been conducted for last so many years and has given this country the administrative backbone – includes following services.
Services in UPSC Civil Services Exam
(i) Indian Administrative Service. (IAS)
(ii) Indian Foreign Service. (IFS)
(iii) Indian Police Service. (IPS)
(iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’.
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’.
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’.
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration).
(x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’.
(xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’.
(xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’.
(xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’
(xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’.
(xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’.
(xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’ (Gr. III).
(xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group “A”.
(xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade).
(xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra &
Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group ‘B’.
(xxii) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra &
Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group ‘B’.
(xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group ‘B’.
(xxiv) Pondicherry Police Service, Group ‘B’(Above list is as per 2011 civil services notification)
Why not Indian Teaching Services (ITS)?
Now really the question is – Why we do not have an Indian Teaching Services (ITS)? Do we have an alternative for similar services in education – NO! They why, when education is such an important aspect for the growth of our country – we do not have a service category where we select the best minds for the education sector? After all selection of IAS and IPS has been often cited as one of the best in world model of selection and training.
The value associated with this coveted exam ensures that millions of youth in India aspire to become an IPS or IAS one day and serve the country. Just imagine what will happen if the same best minds also compete for the education services – Indian Teaching Services. These ITS can do an education revolution in India! If IAS, IFS and IPS then why not ITS. Why we always undervalue our education sector? Why education is the last priority for us – when it should be first?
ITS – the way to go forward!
With the neglect the situation is that barring few IITs and IIMs the education sector in India is severely under the need of best talent. There are no quality administrators, principals, professors, teachers in the universities and colleges. This is the high time that education ministry should make a start and give a proposal for Indian Education Services to select best minds who will carry the flag of education in this century. A dedicated service for education will ensure that growth in sector increases by leaps and bounds and quality improves many-fold.
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