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181. A further step towards the administrative unification of India, which is receiving the attention of the Government of India, is the participation of the States in the all-India scheme of recruitment to the Administrative and Police Services. The question arose in connection with the Emergency Recruitment Scheme for which persons domiciled in Acceding States had been declared ineligible. At a conference of Premiers of Unions of States held in July 1948, general agreement was reached that if the Government of a State or Union of States established a cadre in its own territory in the same way as Provinces had done, candidates from such States or Unions should be eligible for appointment to the All-India Services concerned on the same terms as candidates from Provinces. After obtaining the agreement in principle of Governments of States and Unions of States regarding participation in the scheme of All-India Services, a conferences of Chief Secretaries was held in July, 1949 to finalise the scheme. On the basis of these discussions, a scheme for the participation of States in the I.A.S. has now been drawn up by the Government of India (Ministry of Home Affairs) for the constitution of five independent cadres for Hyderabad, Rajasthan, Madhya Bharat, Mysore and Travancore-Cochin, a joint cadre for Vindhya Pradesh with the Central Provinces, a joint cadre with Bombay for Saurashtra and a joint cadre for Patiala and East Punjab States Union with East Punjab. For the initial constitution of the cadre, recruitment is to be made (a) from the existing incumbents of posts hereafter included in the I.A.S. cadre and (b) from the open market under the emergency recruitment scheme which is already applicable to the Provinces. For recruitment from the first source States and Unions have set up suitable Selection Boards in consultation with the States Ministry for considering the claims of existing incumbents of the senior posts. The recommendations of the Selection Boards will be further scrutinised by the Special Recruitment Board set-up by the Government of India, who will interview all officers recommended by the States and Unions and advise which of them should be immediately absorbed in the I.A.S. and who should be considered for such absorption in the course of not more than five years on showing sufficient promise to attain the I.A.S. standard. Vacancies remaining after the existing incumbents have been considered will be filled by open market recruitment on the basis of the current emergency recruitment scheme for Provinces, a fresh opportunity being given to persons domiciled in the States to apply to the Special Recruitment Board through a supplementary advertisement. All the Unions and States have accepted the main principles of the scheme.