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:

PM presents 12 awards to civil servants; more about the award-winning schemes

DC of Nizamabad Dr Yogita Rana, secretary, APMC, Nizamabad K Sangaiah

FROM solar initiative in Rajasthan’s Dungapur to creating a cashless village in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, some of the district-level innovations were recognized at the Civil Services Day on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented 12 awards — 10 under the five priority programmes and 2 under innovation category. Here below are the details of the PM’s award-winning schemes and innovations:

Civil Services Day: Collectors asked to give feedback on human capital management in government

THE department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG) has been looking for feedback on one of the key discussions planned for this year’s Civil Services Day to be held in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on April 20 and 21. The date of submission of comments and feedbacks on the topic — human capital management in government — was recently extended till April 7, 2017. And feedback can also be posted online. Recently, the DARPG asked collectors and district magistrates to submit their…

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

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10 districts receive PM’s Award; Gujarat, Maharashtra, MP, Punjab, Karnataka etc. draw a blank

Cab Sec PK Sinha, Addl Principal Secy to PM PK Mishra at the release

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PM praises union secretaries for devoting 10,000 mandays on governance beyond office hours

10 of 677 districts selected for PM Awards 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today praised the union secretaries, saying that they had devoted 10,000 mandays on key governance areas over and above their usual office hours. PM who addressed as many as 1,200 civil servants in New Delhi on the occasion of Civil Services Day referred to the recently constituted committees of secretaries on key areas of governance, adding that officers worked on these tasks voluntarily, after office hours and on holidays. He also said how those teams successfully broke silos and presented fresh ideas. Here are the key points of the PM’s speech at Vigyan Bhawan:

Civil Services Day function kicks off in New Delhi; bureaucrats to discuss how to replicate PM's Awards in states, districts

AS THIS article is being written, the two-day-long Civil Services Day function is about to begin in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan. According to the schedule being lined up by the department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG), the nodal department handling the function, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the bureaucrats on April 21. Today (Wednesday), the key highlights include an address by railway minister Suresh Prabhu and a discussion on how to replicate the PM's awards in states or even districts. Here below are the programme details:

Civil Services Day: What PM said, and what did those possibly mean?

Civil Services Day: PM giving an award to a civil servant

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked civil servants to spend quality time with their family saying-- "Your life should not become a file". Speaking at the Civil Services Day function held in New Delhi, Modi gave a new slogan called “ART” and chanted a Sanskrit verse to make a point that character is the highest virtue. More about PM’s take on life, work, family and honesty:

Cabinet secretary Ajit K Seth wants discussion in coming Civil Services Day on ability of civil servants to communicate

Press Officers' Workshop

COME April 21, Indian civil servants may discuss ways on how to enhance their ability to communicate. Cabinet secretary Ajit K Seth on Monday invited suggestions for the forthcoming Civil Services Day on how to equip civil servants professionally, and suggested that one of the areas for discussions on the Civil Services Day could be enhancing the ability of civil servants to communicate. Seth was…

Nominations for PM’s Awards for excellence in public administration now open; last date: October 17

Civil Services Day, April 21, 2013 (File photos)

DO YOU know a civil servant who has done an outstanding duty during the recent Jammu and Kashmir flood? Or anyone who has done exemplary work which is truly innovative? Then, that civil servant could be considered for the coveted Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration to be presented on April 21, 2015. The award is given annually and is open to

Fight over Sardar Patel’s Legacy: How this Iron Man also belongs to Indian civil servants

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Nominations invited for PM’s Awards to be presented next year; who qualifies?

AFTER the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration, 2011-12 were presented last month where almost every award-winner belonged to IAS, a number of Group A service officers protested by writing anonymous letters to BoI. One wrote, “Why can’t Civil Services Day be called IAS Day?” Actually, the award is open to “officers of civil services from state, Central government including local bodies, panchayats and zilla parishads”, according to the advertisement…

Govt asks bureaucrats to give new ideas on how to celebrate Civil Services Day

The award winners at CSD, 2013

THE government is looking for fresh ideas on how to celebrate the Civil Services Day next year. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), the nodal department that anchors the annual event, has formally asked for…

Social Media Black-box for Indian Bureaucrats: How Nirupama Rao can help

ONE social media study of public diplomacy undertaken recently at George Washington University, placed India’s ambassador to US Nirupama Rao at the top of the chart among all diplomats and missions based out of Washington DC. As the research study itself says, Rao is “doing something right” to woo a huge number of followers. But, have the other Indian civil servants treated the technology associated with social media as a “black-box” and…

Govt considers modification of appraisal system; lists out global best practices

Performance, Incentives

ON CIVIL services day last Sunday, cabinet secretary Ajit K Seth said that the government was seriously considering modification of numerical annual appraisal system. As senior bureaucrats gathered in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan for the occasion, a background paper that was distributed among them highlighted how performance of civil servants in Singapore, South Korea, UK and Australia is judged. Here are some excerpts:

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...

Civil Services Day: PM's Awards for Excellence given for 5 outstanding initiatives

PRIME Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is inaugurating the Civil Services Day in New Delhi on Thursday. On this occasion, he will also give away the “PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration” for the year 2009-10. Those who are receiving awards are:

a) Bridging the Gap –Turnaround of Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam

b) Success Story of Malkapur 24x7 Water Supply Scheme (Maharashtra)

c) Education and Training Centre – Dreams to Reality, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, (Maharashtra)

d) Sickle Cell Anemia Control Programme, Government of Gujarat

e) Sustainable Plastic Waste Management, Himachal Pradesh.

All officers of Central and state governments individually or as group or as organization are eligible. The award includes a medal, scroll and a cash amount of Rs 1 lakh. In case of a group, the total award money is Rs 5 lakh subject to a maximum of Rs 1 lakh per person. For an organization this is limited to Rs 5 lakh.

Minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pensions and PMO V Narayanasamy, cabinet secretary KM Chandrashekhar and principal secretary to Prime Minister TKA Nair will be among those present on the occasion.

Transparency and ethics in governance, improvement of public service delivery systems and challenges of economic management are among the issues that will be deliberated in the day long proceedings.

Action and Appointments

a) Kapil Dev Tripathi, a 1980 batch Assam cadre IAS, has been appointed as secretary, Central Vigilance Commission, in the rank and pay of additional secretary in the vacancy of KS Ramasubban, a 1976 batch West Bengal cadre IAS who has retired.

b) Atul Chaturvedi, a 1974 batch UP cadre retired IAS has been appointed as principal adviser in the Cabinet Secretariat on contract basis for a period of three months from the date of assumption of charge.

Be alive to problems at hand and equipped to tackle them: PM tells Indian bureaucrats

PRIME Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has given Indian civil servants a thumps up while adding that there were areas in which the civil services should have and could have performed better. While inaugurating the Civil Services Day in New Delhi on Wednesday, Mr Singh preferred to encourage the bureaucrats by saying: “On the whole, it would not be an exaggeration to say that our civil services have lived up to this expectation”.

Yet he reminded the bureaucrats that they should not only be alive and sensitive to the problems at hand but should also be well-equipped to tackle them. He emphasized on continuous up-gradation and improvement of trainings. Some excerpts:

On New Problems

The problems and challenges that we face today are not only very different from those which we encountered soon after Independence but are also increasingly complex. Our population has grown manifold, as has the size of our economy. Our country is getting increasingly urbanized. Higher levels of education, income and awareness have raised the aspirations and expectations of our people.

Post Crisis

Our medium term target is to return the economy to an annual growth rate of 9-10 percent. Our civil services have a major role to play in reaching this goal by facilitating the right enabling environment in which enterprise and innovations are encouraged.

On Delivery

Civil servants, particularly those of the All-India Services serving in the states, have a key role in the implementation of all these (Central government) programmes. There is a wide-spread feeling that we have not been completely successful in ensuring that the benefits of our development programmes reach out to the people as intended. This is a massive challenge.

(In Picture: Dr Singh with the awardees of PM’s award for Excellence in Public Administration, at 5th Civil Services Day function, in New Delhi on April 21, 2010)

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Action and Appointments

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