New Cadre allocation policy effective from 2017

The Central Government, after consultation with State Governments, has revised the policy for cadre allotment for the All India Services-Indian Administrative Service (IAS)/Indian Police Service (IPS)/Indian Forest Service (IFoS). The Cadre Controlling Authorities, namely, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) / Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) / Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) shall determine the vacancies including the break-up into Unreserved (UR)/ Scheduled Caste (SC) / Scheduled Tribe (ST) / Other Backward Classes (OBC)/ Insider / Outsider vacancies for each of the cadres as per the established procedure. DoPT has issued an Office Memorandum in September, 2017. which has the details of new policy. Memorandum also says that the new cadre allocation policy comes into effect with the Civil Services Examination — 2017 Indian Forest Service Examination - 2017.