How the IAS officer get trained
(By Bhavesh Mishra ,IAS, 2015 BATCH)
The initial years in IAS are the best years of your professional life. I don’t think that there is any other job which gives so much responsibility, power, scope of doing good work and authority at such an early stage of career.
It begins with 3 months Foundation course in LBSNAA. Although it has an academic component but mostly it’s for developing camraderie, pursuing extra curricular skills, trekking, sports, fitness, festivals etc.
It is followed by 2 months Bharat Darshan. You get to traverse the entire country and meet people, officers, organisations who are doing good work in the country. It’s total fun.
Thereafter, there is a 3 months Professional course where we get to learn the working of governance and the role that we are expected to play in our career.
After this begins our district training where we get hands on experience with field administration. For many of us this is the first time exposure to implementation of government schemes and challenges we face at the ground level. We get to work as Patwari, Tahsildar and Block Development Officer during this period.
Then comes Phase-2 training which has a component of foreign visit as well. The purpose of this training is to share our experiences of district training with our batch mates.
A 3 month attachment with a Central Ministry begins immediately after Phase-2. Here we get to learn the basics of how Central Government and its schemes are formulated and implemented.
With this our training period gets over. This process usually takes 2 years. Thus for initial two years there is not much responsibility on our shoulders and all we are expected to do is to observe and learn.
This is followed by our first posting as Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM). This is one of the most important posting and the place where actual learning takes place. It’s more of field job and we are expected to be on duty 24×7. We conduct events, elections, handle disasters, protocol duties, law and order and almost everything under the ambit of administration is managed by SDM. It’s both challenging as well as satisfactory. Here we learn the two most important skills: resource management and negotiation skills.
The work done by you is under constant scrutiny of media, courts, citizen and political parties.
Work Life Balance
During field postings there is certainly a trade off as far as work life balance is considered. We work on Sundays and public holidays and there are no fixed working hours.
Moreover, our initial postings are in remote areas where even basic infrastructure may be lacking.
Expectations
The expectations from an IAS officer in district are very high. Hundreds of petitioners come every day to our office for resolving their grievances.
Villagers still recollect the good work done by officers 20+ years ago.
It is followed by 2 months Bharat Darshan. You get to traverse the entire country and meet people, officers, organisations who are doing good work in the country. It’s total fun.
Thereafter, there is a 3 months Professional course where we get to learn the working of governance and the role that we are expected to play in our career.
After this begins our district training where we get hands on experience with field administration. For many of us this is the first time exposure to implementation of government schemes and challenges we face at the ground level. We get to work as Patwari, Tahsildar and Block Development Officer during this period.
Then comes Phase-2 training which has a component of foreign visit as well. The purpose of this training is to share our experiences of district training with our batch mates.
A 3 month attachment with a Central Ministry begins immediately after Phase-2. Here we get to learn the basics of how Central Government and its schemes are formulated and implemented.
With this our training period gets over. This process usually takes 2 years. Thus for initial two years there is not much responsibility on our shoulders and all we are expected to do is to observe and learn.
This is followed by our first posting as Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM). This is one of the most important posting and the place where actual learning takes place. It’s more of field job and we are expected to be on duty 24×7. We conduct events, elections, handle disasters, protocol duties, law and order and almost everything under the ambit of administration is managed by SDM. It’s both challenging as well as satisfactory. Here we learn the two most important skills: resource management and negotiation skills.
The work done by you is under constant scrutiny of media, courts, citizen and political parties.
Work Life Balance
During field postings there is certainly a trade off as far as work life balance is considered. We work on Sundays and public holidays and there are no fixed working hours.
Moreover, our initial postings are in remote areas where even basic infrastructure may be lacking.
Expectations
The expectations from an IAS officer in district are very high. Hundreds of petitioners come every day to our office for resolving their grievances.
Villagers still recollect the good work done by officers 20+ years ago.
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