Who's Getting Into The Civil Services?

                                

                           R.Muthayala Raju IAS (AIR-1,2007)

• Less than 2 in 10 entrants were from a metro or a state capital
   
• More than 5 were born in a tehsil or district town
   
• One out of four are kids of fathers who have not studied beyond matriculation
   
• 4 in 10 were engineers, techies or medics
   
• New recruits are older. About 50%  were over 25.
   
• 4 in 10 now sit for the exam in Hindi, but English-types still have the upper hand
   
• 12 of top 50 rank-holders in the latest (2006) civil services exam are OBCs
   
• 32.5 % of IAS officers inducted in the last five years are OBCs
   
• Despite reservation, only a tiny fraction of civil servants are first-generation learners
   
• More women are making it to the IAS