PM Modi's classroom: Bureaucrats told to change work ethics and mindsets

With the Narendra Modi government expecting better delivery of its schemes and programmes on the ground as the 2019 Lok Sabha elections draw nearer, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Friday asked senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers of the country, including district magistrates of 599 of the 706 districts, to change their work ethic and mindsets.

The occasion was Civil Services Day and the PM’s ‘classroom’ comprised senior IAS officers in Delhi and district magistrates of 599 of the country’s 706 districts. 

The speech via videoconferencing also reached district-level officials across the country. 

The PM’s over an hour long