Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
The Indian Administrative Service ( IAS ) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India . [3] Considered the premier central civil service of India, [3] [4] the IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service . Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states . IAS officers are also deployed to various government establishments such as constitutional bodies , staff & line agencies, auxiliary bodies, public sector units , regulatory bodies , statutory bodies and autonomous bodies. As with other countries following the parliamentary system of government, the IAS is a part of the permanent bureaucracy of the nation, [5] and is an inseparable part of th...