Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is working to change the dynamics of the civil services of India.
As many as 175 IAS officers of the 2015 batch who are completing phase-II
training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA),
Mussoorie, will be joining as Assistant Secretaries in the ministries or
departments of the Government of India for a period of three months between
July 3, 2017 and September 29, 2017. Earlier, the trainees used to join their
respective states as Assistant Collector and their main job was to understand
the working mechanism of the districts. It was referred to as bottom to top
working pattern of the governance. The Modi government has changed the pattern
for last three years. Now, first the probationers will work as Assistant
Secretaries in the ministries and then will move to the District Headquarters.
All young officers were in Delhi recently to meet the Prime Minister. Modi
advised young IAS officers to avoid getting into a mindset that resists change,
and fill India’s administrative system with the energy of ‘New India.’ The
Prime Minister began by asserting that India has not progressed as much as it
should have. He said countries that achieved independence after India, and
faced greater resource constraints than India, have touched new heights of
development. He said boldness is required to drive change, and added that a
fragmented administrative arrangement does not allow the collective
capabilities of officers to deliver to the optimum level. He said dynamic
change is needed to transform the system. He urged the young officers to
interact freely with the senior-most officers of the Union Government over the
next three months, so that the system could benefit from the combination of
their energy and fresh ideas, and the administrative experience of
Secretary-level officers. North and South Block’s senior civil servants are
observing the change and hope it may result in a perceptive change among young
officers.
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