IAS training has four phases.
• Foundation Course – At Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration Mussoorie.
• Institutional or Profesional Course – At Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration Mussoorie.
• District Training / Training on Job – In the corncern state.
• Institutional or Profesional Course – At Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration Mussoorie.
After selection through UPSC Civil servants , the candidates are called probationers who have to undergo training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration , Mussoorie . This part is known as foundational training and is common to all the non – technical civil services ( all India and central ). This course is for six months.
As the newly recruited personnel come from different academic disciplines they need to be given some common courses of study and instruction so that they possess knowledge of the social , political , economic , history legal , cultural constitutional frame work within which they as civil servants are mandated to serve.
The institutional training focuses upon a certain body of knowledge and skills that are considered essential for making a trainee officer professionally adept and competent in his own sphere of working, within the framework of certain acts, rules and procedures.
Thus, professional course provides the trainee with information regarding the civil, criminal and revenue laws and knowledge of the legal framework within which the administrative machinery functions. The course contents also seek to familiarise the trainee with his like police, judicial officers, accounts staff and local bodies. In professional training an IAS provationers has to study in Public Administration, Revenue Administration, Administration of Law and Order, Development Administration, Constitutional Provision, Economic System, Legal System in detail. The training also gives an adequate idea of the functioning of the district administration and the various functionaries involved. The probationer is also taught the language of the state assigned to him. The duration of the professional training is 3 Months.
After completing the professional training of Mussoorie, the IAS probationer’s go to The State of their allotment for district training the duration of which is one year. During district training, the probationers spent some time at the state training institute, and thus acquire knowledge of various aspects of life in the state of their destiny. They learn the language of the State.
District training begins under the supervision of a carefully selected district collector in the state to which an officer is alloted. This is on the job training, he trainee getting a feel of administration and obtaining an experience of various field label positions in the district.
In the fourth phase an IAS probationers come to the Academy Mussoorie for the second and final phase of training. Its duration is six weeks. The training is mainly problem and issue oriented. This phase is woven round the administrative experiences that the officer had gathered in the course of one – year district training.
An examination is held at the end of the six weeks. Thus ends the post – entry training of the Indian Administrative Service. Marks at various examinations held at the Academy are counted and the final ranking of the trainee is determined.
IAS training has four phases.
• Foundation Course – At Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration Mussoorie.
• Institutional or Profesional Course – At Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy Hydrabad.
• District Training / Training on Job – In the corncern state.
• Training in the academy – At Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy Hydrabad.
At the first stage IPS probationers has to participate training programme at Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration Mussoorie. This is national course. The syllabus and programme are equal for probationers of all India services and central service of Group A. As the newly recruited personnel come from different academic disciplines they need to be given some common courses of study and instruction so that they possess knowledge of the social , political , economic , history legal , cultural constitutional frame work within which they as civil servants are mandated to serve. This course is for 6 Months.
In this stage the IPS probationers has to participate training programme in the National Police Academy in Hydrabad. During this session they have to study criminal psychology, Indian Legal System, Indian Constitution, Indian Panel Court, CRPC etc.
The objective of this basic course training is capacity building, imparting professional knowledge, nurturing human values, right attitude, development of professional organisation and community skills, development of overall personality that includes self discipline, characters, soft skills, habits, norms and etiquette.
The objective of this course is transforming the probationers into leader of policing during their training at SVPNPA, IPS probationers has been attached to different units of army, air force, Navy, Central Armed Police Forces to familiarise them with service environment which helps them in appreciating the role of other organisation in nation building.
During District training they attached with district administration and functions in the district under the guidance of SP.
District training includes a practical training component where trainees are given responsibilities of handling police stations. They are also attached to district police headquarters to observe and learn on the go about the policing.
The main objective of this phase is to prepare the IPS officer for the next level competency that is mainly concerned with public interaction.
It is final or second phase institutional training. This institutional training is based on case study. During this phase IPS probationers has to qualify written examination then after qualifying they are ready for appointment as SP at junior scale.