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IAS officer standing between India’s colonial-era generalist administrative model and a modern governance system requiring specialised expertise in semiconductors, AI, healthcare, infrastructure, energy, agriculture and climate resilience.

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Is the IAS Still Designed for the India It Now Governs?

India's IAS was built around the idea of the brilliant generalist administrator. But governing a technologically complex modern economy increasingly demands deep expertise, institutional memory and continuity. The question is not whether India needs the IAS, but what the IAS must become.

Sep 21, 202613 min read

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