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When India achieved independence, the rulers who had been at the receiving end of the administrators' stick during the freedom movement had a choice. They could have abolished the ICS, dismissed those in that service and not created its clone, the IAS. But they chose wisely to create a top civil service much like the ICS. One had to compete on an all-India basis, pass a difficult examination and go through an even more difficult oral interview to get into it. I had once said in the Lok Sabha that the IAS examination was perhaps the most difficult examination of my life until I contested popular elections and realized that there was nothing more difficult than that.
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