Indian National Civil Services Day 2023: Date, history, significance and quotes
National Civil Services Day 2023: Here is all you need to know about the date, time, significance and quotes on National Civil Services Day 2023.
By LAKSHY DREAM FOUNDATION GLOBAL NEWS Information Desk: Every year on April 21, National Civil Services Day is honoured. On this day, the Prime Minister of India awards officers from the central and state governments for their outstanding contributions to public administration.
The civil service system is the backbone of the country's administrative functions. It is the Republic of India's permanent executive branch. Various policies and programmes are created by the government’s administrative departments.
Civil servants are in charge of effectively implementing all government plans and initiatives down to the grassroots level. It comprises the Indian Administrative Services (IAS), the Indian Police Services (IPS), the Indian Foreign Services (IFS), and the core Group A and Group B services.
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICES DAY 2023: HISTORY
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, the Home Member of Parliament, introduced the All India Services on April 21, 1947. The former Indian Civil Services under British India were later transformed into All India Services under the total Indian administration.
At the All India Administrative Service Training School in Metcalfe House, Delhi, he delivered a remarkable speech and referred to government servants as the ‘steel frame of India' in his address.
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICES DAY 2023: SIGNIFICANCE
The day plays a significant role as civil servants like IAS, IPS and IFS take care of the needs of the people at a local level by providing services at the ground level.
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICES DAY 2023: QUOTES
Above all, I would advise you to maintain to the utmost the impartiality and incorruptibility of administration. A civil servant cannot afford to, and must not, take part in politics. Nor must he involve himself in communal wrangles. - Sardar Patel
Along with discipline, you must cultivate an esprit de corps without which service, as such, has little meaning. You should regard it as a proud privilege to belong to the Service, covenants which you will sign, and uphold throughout your service, its dignity, integrity and incorruptibility. - Sardar Patel
Take the path of Dharma - the path of truth and justice. Don't misuse your valour. Remain united. March forward in all humility, but fully awake to the situation you face, demanding your rights and firmness. - Sardar Patel
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.-Indira Gandhi
The Prime Minister and the chief ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are other teams. The civil servants at the centre and the states are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India. -Narendra Modi
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. - Winston Churchill
With bad laws and good civil servants, it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants, even the best laws can't help. - Otto von Bismarck
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