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Every year Union Public Service Commission or UPSC conducts the prestigious Civil Service Examination. This examination is regarded as one of the toughest examinations not only in India but also in the world. UPSC Civil Service Examination offers nineteen services in different sectors of India. Some of the prominent jobs are IAS (Indian Administrative Service), IFS (Indian Foreign Service), IPS (Indian Police Service), IRS (Indian Revenue Service) and twenty others Group A and Group B services. Let us now discuss the job profile of the Indian Administrative Service. Let us also take you through the best IAS coaching in Kolkata to give you a better understanding.
IAS (Indian Administrative Service) is one of the three arms of All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. As with other countries India is following a parliamentary system, the IAS is a part of the permanent bureaucracy of the nation. The IAS officers being an integral part of bureaucracy guarantees administrative continuity to the government. And hence to get the best in class training you need to opt for the top IAS coaching institute in Kolkata.
The District Collector is the highest Officer of revenue administration in the district. In revenue matters, she is responsible to the Government through the Divisional Commissioner and Chairman, Board of Revenue. She is responsible for the collection of land revenue, other kinds of Government taxes, fees and all dues recoverable as arrears of land revenue. She is responsible for ensuring the maintenance of accurate and up-to-date records of rights as regards the land. The Collector is assisted in the Revenue Administration by Sub-Divisional Officers (Upziladhikari) at Tehsil Level. Both Collector and SDOs deal with various land related issues of the people such as boundary disputes, mutation, maintenance and correction of maps, Consolidation of Land etc. As the District Collector, she is the highest revenue judicial authority in the district.
As District Magistrate, she supervises all Executive Magistrates in the district and controls and directs the actions of the police. On the magisterial side, she has firstclass magisterial powers. The District Collector is in charge of law and order which is the basis of civilized life. With the assistance of SSP, she maintains law and order in the district. With the prudent application of the powers conferred under various statutes, he takes preventive actions to ensure public peace and tranquility in the district. She has powers to bind down miscreants for good behaviour and peaceful conduct, make the preventive arrests under Criminal Procedure Code, impose restrictions on unlawful assembly or impose even curfew that restricts free movement in the declared areas, get the risk to public life removed, order for experiment of hardened criminals from the district boundaries with directions for regular intimation to them local police about the actual whereabouts, issue/suspend/cancel arms licenses, order for preventive arrest under National Security Act if there is threat to public security, grant parole to undertrials/convicted criminals etc. District Magistrate (DM) is the head of the Jail Administration as well in the district.
As she is the executive head of the civil administration, all departments in the district, which otherwise have their own officers, look to her for guidance and coordination. She is also responsible for the execution of rural development schemes. Besides, she is responsible, as District Election Officer, for the peaceful and orderly conduct of all elections held in the district from time to time. For elections to Lok Sabha constituency/constituencies of her district, she functions as Returning Officer. She renders active help during decennial census. She controls and regulates the distribution of scarce essential commodities, etc. She keeps liaison with military authorities in her jurisdiction and is the Competent Authority for requisition of land for military purposes. In any matter of public importance which does not fall specifically in the sphere of any government department, State or Central, she, as a general administrator, is required to take cognizance of the matter in public interest and take it to its logical conclusion with the help of some Government department or by processing the matter in his own office. In short, there is nothing of importance that takes place in the district with which she is not associated, directly or indirectly. The post of District Collector is of the rank of the Deputy Secretary. An IAS officer can get his posting in field as well as in secretariat. When an IAS officer gets his first posting in secretariat, he joins as a Deputy Secretary.
Secretary is the Administrative head of the Department. He is the principal Adviser of the Minister on all matters of policy and administration within the Department having complete and undivided responsibility.
AS & FA manages the financial matters in the Department.
All Financial powers subject to observation of the General Financial Rules (GFR) in vogue.
Joint Secretary is the overall in-charge of the Wing of the Department allocated and entrusted to him. He is entrusted with the necessary measure of independent functioning and responsibility in respect of all business of the Wing, subject to his general responsibility of the Joint Secretary for the administration of the wing as a whole.All financial powers subject of limitation of delegation of financial powers delegated by Secy./AS & FA.
Director/Deputy Secretary acts on behalf of the Secretary. He holds charge of a Secretariat division and is responsible for the disposal of Government Business dealt within the Division under his charge. The officer takes orders from the Joint Secretary/Secretary on important cases, either orally or by submission of papers.Further in terms of specific delegation of Powers, he is appointing authority in respect of Senior Secretariat Assistant and Junior Secretariat Assistant of Central Secretariat Clerical Services (CSCS).
He is also empowered to impose all penalties under CCS (CCA) Rule 11 in respect of Senior Secretariat Assistant and Junior Secretariat Assistant of Central Secretariat Clerical Services (CSCS) employees under the Administrative Control of Deptt. of Industrial Policy & Promotion and impose all penalties under CCS (CCA) Rule 11 in respect of General Central Service, Group ‘C’ employees of the Deptt. of Industrial Policy & Promotion.
An Under Secretary is in charge of a Branch in the Department Of Industrial Policy & Promotion, each Branch consisting of one or more Sections and, in respect thereof, exercise control both in regard to the dispatch of business and maintenance of discipline. Work comes to him from Sections under his charge. As Branch Officer he disposes of as many cases as possible at his own level but he takes the orders of Deputy Secretary or higher officers on important cases.
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