No celebration of “steel frame of India” on April 21 as general elections are on, but…

ON April 21, 1947, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed a group of civil services probationers and referred them as “steel frame of India”. The day — April 21— is being celebrated every year as the Civil Services Day. But on Sunday, there was no celebration because of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, which means, the awards given on the occasion of the day, will now be delivered only after…

List of Civil Services Day 2018 awardees; 10 things to know about the big day, April 21

Select bureaucrats listening to PM during the Civil Services Day function

ON SATURDAY — April 21— civil servants gathered in New Delhi on the occasion of the annual Civil Services Day to brainstorm what has been achieved so far, and what all could be done next to improve the delivery of services to the citizens, among others. First, here’s the list of winners of 15 awards, for which as many as 643 districts among others had participated:

“Anonymity is one of the greatest strengths of civil services”; 10 things PM said on Civil Services Day

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Friday cautioned civil servants that the use of social media should not lead to a decline anonymity which has been one of the greatest strengths of civil services, even as social media and mobile governance are being leveraged to connect people to government schemes. While presenting the PM’s awards on the occasion of the eleventh Civil Services Day, PM further urged senior officers to ensure that their experiences should not become a burden that stifles innovation of younger officers. Here are 10 things PM Modi said on the occasion:

2,345 applications poured in for PM’s Award to be conferred on Civil Service Day, April 21

AN OVERWHELMING number of applications — 2,345 in total in two categories — have been received for PM’s Awards for excellence in public administration to be given on Civil Services Day-- April 21. Out of those 1,515 applications were received from about 600 districts across states and Union Territories under the priority programmes category, and another 830 applications were received from organizations of Central or state government/district under the innovation category.There will be a maximum of...

Winners of Prime Minister’s Awards; who are those outstanding civil servants?

ON THE occasion of Civil Services Day on Sunday, principal secretary PM Pulok Chatterji released a book titled “Best Practices – Thinking Out of the Box”. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his speech gave yet another twist to the debate when he said India’s rapid progress would depend on our ability to be innovative particularly in public administration. Here are a few innovative thought leaders in bureaucracy who clinched the...