
Centre mulling new IAS, IPS cadre for Mizoram: DoNER Minister
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- Union Minister for the Development of the North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh on 3 Dec said he had directed the Department of Personnel and Training to undertake an exercise to study the implications and feasibility of creating a separate cadre for all India service officers like the IAS and the IPS for Mizoram.
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- Exercise a result of the request by CM of Mizoram: to have a separate IAS or civil services cadre for Mizoram, which is presently part of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories, excluding the Andaman and Nicobar Islands) cadre, to the DoNER Minister.
- He also said that two more Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh — will also become a part of the AGMUT cadre.
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The Hindu