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Please don’t join civil services if you have got the job of Rs 50 lakhs.You must understand that you are going to get just Rs. 10 lakhs per annum, if you join the civil services. Thereafter, you shall be getting just 3% increment every year. Your salary would increase by less than fourfold by the time of your retirement, excluding the dearness allowances and the pay commission’s benefits.If you continue to be in private sector, you would be getting at least 10-20 times more salary than your civil service counterpart after a decade.You must also understand that you shall be getting frequent transfers, face political interference and your spouse and children may have to stay away from you for quite some time.Don’t be a fool to think that what is happening with every IAS and IPS officers would not happen with you because by the time you join the civil services, Indian politicians would all be reformed.Perhaps, you want to join civil services for serving the nation.I must call you a novice, if you are joining civil services for serving the nation.Please remember that a civil servant is just like a tool in the hands of the politicians, who are the supreme rulers in a democracy. And we know the quality of politicians in India. If you don’t know them, please start reading newspapers and watching the TV programmes, if you are not doing it for civil services preparation.If you are too enthusiastic to serve the nations, civil services is the wrong place to be since you are likely to sidelined like Mr Ashok Khemka and you shall be cursing the politicians for mistreating you and cursing yourself for joining the civil services.You are perhaps enamored with the perks, power and prestige of the District Magistrate in State and you wish to become one of them.You are again wrong my friend.You must know that an average IAS officer remains DM only for 2-3 years in his career of 35-38 years. Most people don’t even know which posts the IAS occupy for rest of their career.Do you think, it is worth wasting your life for becoming a DM?Even the postings of DM is not a bed of roses because you have to work 12-18 hours a day and accommodate dozens of politicians including party cadres, Gram Pradhans, MLAs, MPs, Ministers etc. every day. You are always subjected to transfer and even suspension if anything goes wrong.If you are thinking about joining IPS, IFS, IRS etc, again you are not right because most officers of these services keep comparing with IAS and feeling frustrated for rest of their career.IAS and other civil services actually suits them most who are average, or who come from rural/small-town background and who consider corruption in government a matter of right.If you are one of them, please join civil services and enjoy your life till you land up in a corruption case and go to jail.All the best.

I fully agree with you.The average age of civil servants in India at the entry level is around 27/28 years at present.The minimum age of writing civil services is 21 years and the minimum qualification for civil services is graduate degree.If we take the average age of graduation to be 21 years, an average civil servant aspirant wastes almost 6 years of his life in doing other jobs or preparation, which has no relevance/benefit in the civil services.When I wrote civil services in 1989, the maximum age for civil services was just 26 years for general category and 31 years for SC/ST. I was told that before this the maximum age had been 24 years only.The average age of a fresh civil servant used to be 23/24 years only during 80s and it was much easier to mould them into their service culture.Now the government has increased the entry age by 6 years and hence the average age of civil servant at entry level has also gone up by 5/6 years.It is pathetic to see lakhs of students writing civil services year after year and wasting even 8/10 years of their life getting into this service.More than 99% of such candidates never get selected in CSE and they remain frustrated throughout their life as they can never get back the time spent for civil services preparation.Even the candidates who get selected into the services other than IAS/IFS also keep writing it till they are 32/37 years of age, thereby not focusing on their job at all.They also end up wasting many seats which would have gone to the other aspirants.The best way to stop wasting the national resources is to change the appointment rules for civil services as following:The process of selection should be reduced to maximum 3/6 months.People should be allowed to write civil services in their final year of graduation itself (like CAT) and get selected by May/June of the year they pass their graduation.Maximum age of the civil servants should be gradually reduced to 24/26 years for general candidates and a little higher for other categories.If you join a civil service, you should be debarred to write civil services examination again as it existed before 1995. If you wish to write CSE again, you must resign from your job first.Such a move may not be welcomed by a few candidates, but it shall certainly be in the national interest.

Ten Commandments for Civil Services AspirantsDon’t choose your graduation subject as optional if it is not scoring enough. It is easy to prepare a new optional from scratch and score good marks.Don’t try to cover the entire syllabus of the civil services. Instead focus on few selected areas and master them.Don’t prepare for civil services with 8–10 hours job in a corporate sector. Choose a lighter job , if at all necessary.Don’t expect to be selected in civil services in the first attempt itself. Please be mentally prepared to write at least 2–3 attempts. The average entry age of civil servant is around 26–27 years nowadays.Don’t wait to become 21 years or more to plan for civil services. The earlier you make up your mind for civil services, the more time you get for preparation and the higher you rise in the bureaucratic ladder.Don’t prepare for civil services all alone. It is better to get guidance from experienced people to know the way.Don’t neglect any paper in civil services. Every single mark count for your selection and choice of service.Please join a Civil Services coaching, if you can afford it and you have time for it. It really helps.Knowledge is not sufficient for civil services and often the art of presentation can fetch you better marks. Practice a lot writing answers systematically within the word limit and time limit without missing any important point.Know something of everything and everything of something. Keep abreast to the latest developments in India and the world. Have a view on all important matters.If you follow these Ten Commandments, you can avoid lots of mistake in civil services preparation and improve your chances of success manifold.