Going by the number of times the IAS officers have been used to fix everything other than administering governance, it is only fair that the government should reallocate them in small different groups in tune with the kind of non-administrative jobs they are being asked to perform as and when the opportunity arises.
In the good old days, the IAS officers were rarely used outside the government. Apart from nominating senior officers approaching retirement to become India
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