Backward Babus http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20070806&fname=Cover+Story+%28F%29&sid=1
Excerpt:
'Who's Getting Into The Civil Services?
Less than 2 in 10 entrants were from a metro or a state capital in '04
More than 5 were born in a tehsil or district town in '04
One out of four are kids of fathers who have not studied beyond matriculation
4 in 10 were engineers, techies or medics
New recruits are older. About 50% in '05 were over 25.
4 in 10 now sit for the exam in Hindi, but English-types still have the upper hand
12 of top 50 rank-holders in the latest (2006) civil services exam are OBCs
32.5 % of IAS officers inducted in the last five years are OBCs
Despite reservation, only a tiny fraction of civil servants are first-generation learners
More women are making it to the IAS
Tamilians and UP-ites dominate the last three years' IAS intake"
The ninth point is the main discouraging one. OUTLOOK also has a write up on the Vice Presidential nominee Mamid Ansari by Arundhati Ghose:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20070726&fname=arundhati&sid=1
He seems to be the second person from the Indian Foreign Service to earn such a nomination and may not have the communication skills of the president who apparently can communicate with some dead people.
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