NEW DELHI: The J&K cadre of All-India Services ceased to exist on Thursday with the Centre taking the ordinance route to amend the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019, and make IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service officers of existing cadre of J&K a part of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and UTs (AGMUT) cadre, reports Bharti Jain.
The move, a central government functionary told TOI, will help tackle the shortage of All-India Services officers in J&K owing to an earlier UPA rule fixing the ratio of direct recruits in civil services to promotees from J&K state civil services at 50:50 instead of the 67:33 formula followed in other states.