News reports pertaining to a probationary officer of the Indian Administrative Service fraudulently benefiting from allegedly false certificates to qualify in the civil service examination and for brazen behaviour and gross misuse of power and position conceals more than they reveal.
Addressing Assistant Secretaries of IAS 2022 batch, he underscored that civil servants cannot ingratiate with political dispensations.
President Murmu said and urged the civil servants to promote ''jan bhagidari'' to achieve the objectives of the various programmes.
The Union Minister said: “The Maximum Governance, Minimum Government policy has been translated into reality by digitally empowering citizens."
Narendra Modi was addressing civil servants on the occasion of the 16th Civil Services Day.
The prime minister has constantly appreciated the contribution of civil servants towards nation building and enthused them to work even harder.
Apex investigating agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered 110 cases against 166 Civil Service Officers since the year 2018.
Droupadi Murmu urged the officers to work with the spirit of ''Nation First and People First''.
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday voiced concern over the perceived rising nexus between the political executive and civil servants and its consequences for the people and the country. He urged the civil servants to be frank and honest and stand for what is right and to speak truth to the political executive.
"The biggest problem with the IAS is ‘a deeply flawed system of incentives and penalties’, everyone getting ‘promoted by efflux of time’, the corrupt, lazy, and incompetent don’t get weeded out, breeding a system that promotes mediocrity and risk-aversion."
