Mussoorie: For the first time in its history, the Indian Administrative Service has 27% of trainee officers this year who belong to the Other Backward Classes (OBC).
Following the Supreme Court order upholding the concept of reservation for the OBC based on the Mandal Commission report, the same has been introduced in the elite service.
With 24 trainees from OBCs, their percentage has crossed 27% to 31% to be exact in a total of 79. An officer trainee of the 199597 batch now under training at the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. The batch con sists of a total of 12 SCs, six STs, 24 OBCs and 37 from general category.
There are several who come from the remotest corners of the country and there are two who come from the Lambada (Lambadi) community. For the first time, there are seven Muslim candidates, the highest ever. (Deccan Herald Feb.24).
