Shillong, June 12: The Meghalaya government is looking into the drafts of regulations pertaining to appointment in various cadres of the All India Services, after the Centre sought views from all state governments in relation to change in the selection process.

The All India Services include the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS).

The department of personnel and training recently received the drafts of the regulations pertaining to appointment by selection/induction to the services from the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

The comments from the respective state governments are crucial as each state has its own pool of civil service, police service and forest service officers, who are inducted into the IAS, IPS and IFS on a regular basis, depending on their annual confidential reports. However, this system will undergo a change after the regulations take effect and state-level civil/police officers will have to sit for a competitive examination conducted by the UPSC on an annual basis.

The selection of state police service officers to be inducted into IPS shall be made through a four-stage process, carrying a maximum of 1,000 marks.

The 1,000 marks include — common written examination of 400 marks (40 per cent weightage), consideration of additional length of service rendered by an officer in the state police service for 200 marks (20 per cent weightage), assessment of service records by a committee for 250 marks (25 per cent weightage) and a interview by a board for 150 marks (15 per cent weightage).

The examination will assess the aptitude, general awareness and state and service-specific knowledge of officers before a merit list is prepared for their promotion and induction.

Further, the competitive examination will be only for those state civil/police service officers, who have completed a minimum of eight years in service, while those above 54 years will be ineligible.

Under the scheme, the number of officers of state civil services who will be called for the written examination will be five times the substantive vacancies in the order of seniority in that service.

The assessment of service records will also be made objectively under the new system.

Meghalaya shares a joint cadre system of IAS/IPS/IFS officers with neighbouring Assam.