Civil Services Day,
celebrated in April this year, was quite different from earlier celebrations.
There were new faces and a new thrust. The Secretary, Department of
Administrative Reforms, Alok Rawat, and Special Secretary Arun Jha were in full
command, managing the show with finesse. Being the seniormost among civil
servants, Cabinet Secretary AK Seth was present most of the time and was seen
observing and instructing wherever needed. Amitabh Kant, Secretary, DIPP, Navtej
Sarna, Secretary, External Affairs, Saurabh Chandra, Secretary, Petroleum,
Sanjay Kothari, Secretary, DoPT, and Madhav Lal, Secretary, MSME, were actively
participating and interacting with fellow colleagues. The real power centre
with the change of guard was PK Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to the
Prime Minister. A retired 1972-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, Mishra
was sitting in the front row and closely observing the proceedings. Most of the
top bureaucrats were seen whispering to him. Some of them were seen waiting
quietly for their turn to just say hello or introduce themselves to the new
boss in the set-up. Mishra politely listened and met everybody patiently. He
kept a very calm, humble and low profile during the occasion. g
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