All about after selection in IAS II IAS Anshuman Raj (UPSC 2019 AIR 107) II LBSNAA

Selected candidates in CSE will be sent to Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie for training on how to execute their powers, their duties and responsibility.

The 1,000-odd recruits in every batch start their careers in the services with a four-month foundation course that is held at four centres: Mussoorie, Bhopal, Nagpur and Hyderabad.

Usually, IAS, IPS and Indian Foreign Service probationers go to the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, while officers of other services are split among National Academy of Direct Taxes, Nagpur, RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration & Management, Bhopal, and Dr MCR Human Resource Development Institute of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.

At the end of the foundation course, the probationers travel across India on a two-month Bharat Darshan, following which they begin training at the specialised academies of their respective services.

This phase of training (called Phase I training) lasts 15 weeks — IAS probationers are at LBSNAA, Mussoorie, IPS at Hyderabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, etc. After completing the Phase I training, IAS probationers take up field postings in their respective cadres, which lasts for nearly eight months.

They then return to LBSNAA for six weeks of Phase II training, at the end of which they are considered qualified IAS officers, and sent to their cadres.


Some things may change. Because the plan was thought up late, the 2013 batch has had to be put through the three-month deputation after the formal completion of their training.

this is likely to be made part of IAS officers’ eight-month field posting at the end of the Phase I training — split between five months in the states and three months at the Centre.

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