Indian Foreign Service

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The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is one of the Services of the Government of India; other important services being the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS).

In September 1946, on the eve of India’s independence, the Government of India decided to create a service called the Indian Foreign Service for India’s diplomatic, consular and commercial representation overseas.

The precursor to Indian Foreign Service can be traced back to September 1783 when Foreign Department was established by the British Raj to conduct business with foreign European powers.In 1947, there was a near seamless transformation of the Foreign department of the British India government into what then became the new Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations and in 1948 the first batch recruited under the combined Civil service examination system of the Union Public Service Commission joined the service. This system of entry has remained the staple mode of intake into the IFS to this day.

The Indian Foreign Service belongs to the All India Services. The three types of civil services in India are the All India Services, Central Services and State Services.

[edit] Training

On selection to the Indian Foreign Service through the combined Civil Services examination, the new entrants undergo a multi-faceted and comprehensive training programme intended to give them a thorough grounding in diplomatic knowledge, diplomatic qualities and diplomatic skills. First,the probationers will undergo orientation training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussourie and then focused training at the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi. The course involves lectures, attachments with various wings of the Government as well as familiarisation tours both within the country and abroad. The training programmee will be for 36 months as a whole. [1]

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