IFS DAY

About:

• The Indian Foreign Service is the diplomatic civil service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India.
  
  
• The service is entrusted to conduct diplomacy and manage foreign relations of India.
  
  
• The administrative and political heads are respectively the Foreign Secretary and the External Affairs Minister.
  
  
• In 1948, the first group of Indian Foreign Service officers recruited under the combined Civil Services Examination administered by the Union Public Service Commission joined the service. This exam is still used to select new foreign service officers.