KUALA LUMPUR: Indians accounted for 3.63 per cent of the country's 1,302,713 civil servants as of September, according to figures provided in Parliament.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Sabah and Sarawak) Datuk Mustapha Sakmud said the figures were based on the Human Resources Management Information System and remained subject to updates by the respective agencies.
The data covered permanent, authorised positions and excluded police and military service schemes, he said in a parliamentary written reply to Yeo Bee Yin (PH-Puchong), who sought a detailed breakdown of Indian representation in the civil service.
Of the 47,349 Indian civil servants, 31,628 were in the management and professional group, 15,438 in the support group and 220 in top management. Another 63 had no recorded classification.
The Education Ministry had the largest number of Indian civil servants, at 21,773, followed by the Health Ministry with 14,758 and the Higher Education Ministry with 1,882.
Meanwhile, Public Services Commission figures showed that Indian candidates submitted 194,807 applications to join the civil service between 2021 and 2025.
Of these, 15,875 candidates attended interviews, representing 8.14 per cent of applications, while 5,289 secured appointments, equivalent to 33.32 per cent of those interviewed.
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