Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES)

The Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES) is a formally established Group A Central Service within the Ministry of Defence of the Government of India. The UPSC’s annual Civil Services Examination serves as the basis for hiring new members of the Service. There is a history of this service closely linked with the history of our nation. The Department was established on December 16, 1926. The recent history of our country and the development of the IDES are intimately related.

The Service was initially known as the Military Lands and Cantonments Service, and then Defence Lands and Cantonments Service. In 1985, the Service came to be formally known as the Indian Defence Estates Service.

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Description of the service

The structure of the Service is 3 tiered, Apex level, Mid-level and Field level.

At the apex level is the Directorate General, located at Delhi Cantt. The officers in charge of the Directorate General are an IDES. The Senior Additional Director General is the only one (HAG). Moreover, there are four Additional Director Generals (SAG) who are in charge of different Divisions.

The middle level comprises the Directorates as Regional Headquarters supervising the

field offices. There are six Directorates, co-located with the six Army Commands. The Army commands are located at Lucknow, Pune, Jammu, Kolkata, Chandigarh and South-Western Command at Jaipur. All these Directorates are headed by the Principal Directors (HAG level) and assisted by the Directors (SAG level) and staff officers. All these officers are from the IDES service.

At the Field level, there are Chief Executive Officers in each of the 62 Cantonment Boards, Defense Estates Officers in each of the 37 Defence Estates Circles, and 04 Assistant Defence Estates Offices, all of which are at the forefront of administration.

Also, in Defence Estates Officers also works at the field level administration. DEOs are an agent of the Central Government in the domain of land management. CEO and DEO are IDES officers selected through UPSC CSE.

Training

All IDES officers undergo a foundation training at LBSNAA are sent to National Institute of Defence Estates Management (NIDEM) in New Delhi for core training. NIDEM, a Central Training Institute was established in 1982 at Meerut Cantonment to function as a premier training institute for Indian Defence Estates Service Officers.

Currently, NIDEM’s first phase lasts for about 6 months before officers are deployed out into the field as CEOs or DEOs. Officers are summoned back to NIDEM for “End of probation training” at the end of the probationary period.

OTs are taught Parliamentary laws, Accounting principles, Civil Engineering principles, Electoral rules, VIP protocols and much more at NIDEM.

Career prospects in the service

After completion of training, an OTs are generally given field postings and they start their career as CEO or DEO of any Cantonment area. As CEO you will be the Member -Secretary of the Cantonment Board. As a CEO, you will be responsible for healthcare services, education services, maintaining infrastructure, fixing and collecting tax, generating non-tax revenue, sanctioning plans and many more.

As a DEO, you will be given charge of circle comprising of supernumerary districts. As a DEO, you will have to surveying defence land for Army, Air Force and Navy, disbursing service charges- to Cantonment Boards, land acquisition, hire land for armed forces, renewing leases and licences and many more.

Below the designation list is attached

Designation Structure of IDES

Organisational Structure

Organisational Structure of IDES

Functions and Responsibilities

Management of Defence Lands measuring about 17.57 lakhs acres;
Develop Cantonments as modern townships including provision of quality school education for all children, health care for all residents, social care system for the aged, differently abled and disadvantaged sections of society
Administration of 62 Cantonment Boards- the institutions of local self government- in as many cantonments notified under the Cantonments Act, 2006
Acquisition, Hiring, Requisitioning of immovable properties for defence purposes
Regular audit of defence land inter-alia to optimize its utilization
Regular survey of defence land
Regular survey of defence land
Handling of litigation arising out of land acquisition for defence purposes
Maintenance of state of the art archives for holding old records including restoration and preservation of old/damaged paper records, and their conversion into more durable forms
Exercise of quasi-judicial functions conferred under special laws like the Cantonments Act, 2006, the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971, the Arbitration Act, the Rent Control Act

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Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES)

Description of the service

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Organisational Structure

Functions and Responsibilities

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