Cabinet Secretary
IAS
The highest post an IAS officer can occupy in the country is the post of Cabinet Secretary, which is the head of the Indian administrative system. The Cabinet Secretary is the senior-most civil servant in the government and serves as the principal adviser to the Prime Minister and the head of all civil services under the Government of India.
Tamil Nadu has produced highest number off IAS officers for year 2008/09.
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Tmt. S. Madhumathi IAS is posted as Commissioner of Thoothukudi Corporation after she was relieved from the post of Collector, Chennai (soon after she joined the post) and kept on waiting for some days.
Haryana
To date, Bihar has been producing high number of IAS officers.
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An IAS officer or any officer at the highest post with grage pay of80,000 fixed + other .Some examples of such officers:All the General of the Armed forces,Chief Secretory of the district etc...One person which gets more then them is Cabinet Secretory.
The first Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer after India's independence in 1947 was Satyendranath Tagore. He was selected in the first batch of the IAS in 1948, after the reorganization of the civil services post-independence. His appointment marked a significant step in establishing an Indian bureaucracy independent of colonial rule.
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The youngest IAS in India is named Gaurav Goyal. He when in the IAS at the age of 22.