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Civil Services Day | NATION

Good governance has National Civil Services Day
built trust Purpose of the Celebration
•n Earlier, people had to go to a gazetted officer •n To motivate and appreciate the work and efforts of
to get their documents authenticated. But the Civil Service officers.
current central government has empowered
citizens to self-attest their documents. •n The central government uses this occasion to
evaluate the performance of various departments
•n From January 1, 2016, a decision was taken under the civil services.
to eliminate interviews for recruitment to all
Group C and Group B non-gazetted posts in •n The central government awards individuals and
government jobs. groups who have performed exceptionally well.

•n Previously, grievance redressal took an average •n On this day, officers from both the central and state
of 62 days, but now it has been reduced to governments are honoured by the Prime Minister
13 days. In many cases, complaints are being of India for their outstanding services in the field
resolved within 5 to 6 days as well. of public administration.

To fulfil that responsibility as architects, we must renewable energy targets, internal security, our
empower ourselves, dedicate our time to national mission to eliminate corruption, social welfare
goals, and make the dreams of every common citizen schemes, or sports and Olympic goals – in every
our own. When we do that, we will witness the rise of sector, we must introduce new reforms. What we
a ‘Viksit Bharat’ with our own eyes. have achieved so far is commendable, but now we
must achieve several times more than that. And
THE TIME TO REIMAGINE CIVIL SERVICE amidst all this, we must always remember one
REFORMS thing: “No matter how technology-driven the world
This is the time to re-imagine reforms in the civil becomes, we should never forget the importance
services. We need to accelerate the pace of reforms of human judgement.” Stay sensitive, listen to the
and also scale them up. Whether it’s infrastructure, voice of the poor, understand their pain, and make

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