Who among the following Governors of Haryana was an ICS officer?
2023
Who among the following Governors of Haryana was an ICS officer?
- A.
Shri Dharma Vir
- B.
Shri Muzaffar Hussain Burney
- C.
Shri Hari Anand Barari
- D.
Shri Surjit Singh Sandhawalia
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Concept: The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was the elite civil-administrative service of British India, distinct from policing and judicial services. After independence, civil administration passed to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), established in 1946 as the ICS's successor administrative cadre with its own separate recruitment. Policing followed a separate lineage entirely: the pre-independence Indian Police (IP) was succeeded by the Indian Police Service (IPS), with no connection to the ICS/IAS administrative lineage. A person who joined the ICS therefore belongs to that specific pre-independence administrative service — not the IAS, not the IPS, and not the judiciary.
Application: Among the four Governors of Haryana named here, Shri Dharma Vir joined the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in 1930 — this is exactly the ICS background the question is asking about.
Cross-check against the others:
Shri Muzaffar Hussain Burney joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1948 — the ICS's successor administrative cadre, but a separately-recruited service, not the ICS itself.
Shri Hari Anand Barari joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1953 — the successor to the pre-independence Indian Police, an entirely separate lineage from the civil-administrative ICS/IAS line.
Shri Surjit Singh Sandhawalia built his career in law and the judiciary, not in any civil administrative service.
Since ICS membership means recruitment specifically into that pre-1947 service, and only Dharma Vir's record matches it, Shri Dharma Vir is the correct answer.