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civil services day
civil services day
A govt that runs, but how?
Sometimes,
how you run the government is more important than merely running it.
This was the message that came out loud and clear during the 7th Civil
Services Day.
by Neeraj Mahajan
As
compared to a mini-skirt, which reveals more than it hides, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech on the 7th Civil Services Day was more
like a sari – hiding more than it revealed. Besides Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, leading civil servants
such as cabinet secretary Ajit Seth and principal secretary to the
Prime Minister, Pulok Chatterji, were present on the occasion at Vigyan
Bhavan.
Accepting
the fact that there was a growing perception that the moral fibre of
today’s public servants “who rank among the best in the world”, is not
as strong as it used to be and that the present lot of civil servants
are more likely to succumb to extraneous pressures, the Prime Minister
said, “these perceptions might be exaggerated, but I do think that there
is a grain of truth in them.”
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