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| A section of IAS probationers |
FIVE years ago, as many as 43 IAS officers selected were engineers out of a total of 148. And only 45 of 2011 batch IAS were simple graduates. Contrast this with 2015 batch IAS. As high as 159 of 180 IAS selected as IAS were simple graduates whereas the number of selected candidates with engineering background has drastically come down to mere 15, according to…