Hello,

There is no specific percentage it depends on interest of the student. IAS student should have knowledge of economics, Finance, administration and Strategic planning. Taking into all facts the approximate percentage would be 30%. This because students don't prefer much to IAS nowdays.



The first argument is that after having obtained professional degrees they are getting into the IAS due to which these seats are lost to those who would have pursued engineering or medical careers. Let us look at some statistics: each year more than 200,000 engineers graduate from around 1200 engineering colleges in the country  3,000 from the 7 IITs alone. Tamil Nadu, for instance, has 200 or so colleges offering 60,000 seats annually and many seats go vacant for want of takers.The entire annual civil service intake is now only around 500 and even if there are 40 or 50 IITians this would amount to only a tiny per cent of the engineers being churned out by the country or, even from the IITs.



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Hi,

I would give you the percentage of this as the exact figures are not possible.

In the 1970s and early 80s, it was ~50%. Do not know their proportion now.

If the question is, should they have wasted an engineering (IIT) seat if they were going for Civil Services. At a cursory glance road, water, electricity, dams, mining, industries, steel etc. will benefit from their specialized field knowledge. At the minimum, they need not be primed up for those fields.

Even if they are posted in other departments, the possibility of having a subject matter specialist, who has also qualified for IAS, would have been very low.

As the IITians being science students develop a logical and scientific line of thinking and hence, with their IAS qualification, will understand and learn other subjects quickly.

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