The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the administrative diplomatic civil service under the Central Civil Services (Group A & B) of the executive branch of the Government of India. Indian Foreign Service officers are responsible for managing the external affairs of the country. 

Their role is a diplomatic one and includes the responsibility for developing trade and cultural relations around world.

In September 1946, on the eve of India’s independence, the govt of India decided to make a service called the IFS for India’s diplomatic, consular, and commercial representation overseas. In 1947, there was a consistent change of the Foreign and Political branch of the British Indian government into what then, at that point, turned into the new Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, and 

in 1948 the first batch was recruited under the combined examination system of the Union Public Service Commission.
This article throws light on the training imparted to probationary IFS officers; salary, perks, skills, roles and responsibilities associated with Indian Foreign Service.