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civil services day pm awards 2013
‘Training is the Mantra’
Occasion: 8th Civil Services Day
Chief Guest: Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
Venue: Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
Date: April 21, 2013
Mantra: Training of Civil Servants is vital to keep pace with the world
by Anil Tyagi
Manmohan
Singh, the Prime Minister of India, is not a dramatic man. He enters
calmly, sits down, looks around and does not talk at all during a
function, except when he is delivering a speech. His speech on Sunday,
April 21, was a clarion call to the Indian bureaucracy: "acclimatise
yourself as per the new world order. The world is knocking on your
door.”
Who
better than Manmohan Singh – having headed the government for nine
turbulent years – can understand that knowledge is power? It was on
April 21, the Civil Services Day, organised every year to honour
officers of India’s premier and administrative services for their work
done in the respective fields, that the Prime Minister voiced his
thoughts on what his expectations were from the lifeline of governance
in the country. Read More
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