PM urges young IAS officers to bring in new ideas

A section of 2017 batch IAS being appointed as assistant secretaries

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged the newly-appointed GoI assistant secretaries to bring in new ideas and approaches to the government, adding that the confluence of experience and freshness would be beneficial to the system. Here below is what PM told the young IAS officers:

CVC director prematurely repatriated; deputation tenure of ex-PM Vajpayee’s secretary extended

Kundan Singh, 1990 batch Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS) officer and director in Central Vigilance Commission, has been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre. In a DoPT notification issued on Thursday, it was clearly mentioned that the premature repatriation of the officer is on the grounds of

PM’s interaction with 170 young IAS officers; 10 Things to Know

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need for increasing people’s trust on governance when he had an interaction with 170 young IAS officers in New Delhi on Wednesday. Here are the 10 short takes on the interaction between the PM and the 2016 batch IAS officers:

PM asks India's future diplomats to be more tech-savvy; 5 takeaways of PM’s meeting with 39 officer-trainees

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked India’s future diplomats to be more tech-savvy with an urge to engage more with diaspora, who, according to the PM, are increasingly becoming important stakeholders in the conduct of foreign relations. Here are five takeaways of the PM’s meeting with 39 officer trainees of Indian Foreign Service, currently undergoing training in the Foreign Service Institute:

Social Media, messaging in local languages are important for cyber security: PM to top police officers

PM at BSF Academy, Tekanpur

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the senior police officers to understand the importance of of social media in the context of cyber security, adding that the messaging should rely on local languages for greater effectiveness. He also talked about breaking of silos and more information sharing among states, asking senior officers to involve younger officers. A day after interacting with senior police officers — DGPs and IGPs — at the BSF Academy at Tekanpur, Madhya Pradesh, for nine long hours, PM on Monday addressed the valedictory ceremony at the conference of Director Generals and Inspector Generals of Police at BSF Academy. Here are the 10 takeaways of the PM’s speech:

“Anonymity is the biggest strength of the civil servants”, says PM Modi at day 2 in LBSNAA

PM at a Yoga session at LBSNAA

ANONYMITY is the biggest strength of the civil servants, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of officer trainees at LBSNAA, Mussoorie, on the second day of his visit to the IAS academy. PM compared the civil services to the fourth lion of the Ashoka Emblem, saying how the emblem remains…

PM on 2-day visit to LBSNAA, Mussoorie; Day 1 saw PM having a 4-hour-long interaction with officer trainees; 10 things to know

A section of the officer trainees while listening to the PM

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi spent close to four hours interacting with about 360 officer trainees at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie on Thursday. PM is at LBSNAA on a two-day visit. Here are the 10 developments of the PM’s day-1 of the LBSNAA visit:

2015 batch IAS officers make 8 presentations to PM on railway safety to data driven rural prosperity; 10 highlights

YOUNG IAS officers of 2015 batch on Tuesday made eight presentations before the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior officers on themes as varied as heritage tourism to railway safety and tracking individual carbon footprints. PM while addressing these assistant secretaries said, those officers who had risen from humble backgrounds should meet young students and motivate them. “Communication leads to compassion”, he added. Here below are the 10 highlights of the interaction:

SAY CHEESE: “Maintain a positive work environment in government”, PM says

A section of additional secretaries and JS

NOT always you see a photo when the Prime Minister is speaking and senior bureaucrats are smiling. Usually, the photos released by the government’s publicity department are of the nature of the PM speaking the audience while the senior bureaucrats would be seen in a very serious mood listening to the PM in rapt attention. But on Saturday, PM had an interaction with 80 additional secretaries and joint secretaries, the third of his proposed five interactions with the government of India's senior bureaucracy. And if this photo released on Saturday and published here is any indication, the most of the bureaucrats were well…

“Move beyond files, go to the field”: PM tells district collectors; 10 more messages

PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the district collectors across the country to move beyond files, and go to the field, to understand ground realities, as he addressed to them via video-conferencing. Based on the official statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), here below are 10 key highlights of the PM’s message to the young IAS officers:

PM suggests young officers to visit states to understand best practices; “writing of Gazettes by officers should be made compulsory in districts”

A section of chief secretaries while listening to PM

A TEAM of young officers from across states should deliberate and learn from the best practices of each state by visiting those states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested while interacting with chief secretaries of states and union territories in New Delhi on Monday. Some of the best practices highlighted by chief secretaries during the interaction included…themes such as rural development, skill development, crop insurance, health insurance, tertiary healthcare, welfare of divyang children, reducing infant mortality, tribal welfare, solid waste management, sanitation, drinking water, river conservation, water management, e-governance, pension reform, emergency services, development of mineral-rich areas, PDS reform, direct benefit transfer of subsidy, solar energy, cluster development, good governance and ease of doing business. He further said that writing of Gazettes by officers should be made compulsory in the districts. PM in his speech highlighted the following 10 points among others:

Mann ki Baat: PM praises IAS officer for cleaning a toilet pit himself

A cover of a book, Mann ki Baat

PRIME MINISTER in ‘Mann ki Baat’ programme broadcast on Sunday praised drinking water and sanitation secretary and IAS officer Parameswaran Iyer for cleaning a toilet pit which PM said, was noticed by the entire country. “…when people see an IAS officer cleaning a toilet pit himself, the fact is naturally noticed by the country”, PM said without however naming the IAS officer. Iyre, who took voluntary retirement from IAS nine years ago only to rejoin…