PM to young IAS officers: Make the most of the first 10 years of service
Work hard and take people along to bring fundamental change
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, held an interactive session with young IAS officers of 2013 batch here today. These officers have completed a three-month stint with the Government of India, as Assistant Secretaries. This is the first ever batch of IAS Officers to commence their career with a stint in the Central Government. Work hard and take people along to bring fundamental change
Addressing the officers, the Prime Minister exhorted them to make the best use of the first ten years of service, when they would be working in the field, and get an opportunity to contribute the most for the good of the people.
The Prime Minister said that very often their new ideas and vision may meet resistance from the older generation, but the way to move forward is by working hard, and taking people along. The key is to integrate people, he added.
All the 169 officers were designated and posted as Assistant Secretaries for the first time by the Government of India in various Ministries of the Central Government for three months w.e.f. August 31, 2015 after their Phase-II training in the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie.
The Officers had been assigned important desks related to Policy and Flagship Programmes of the concerned Ministries and Departments. They are being groomed by Principal Mentors at the level of Secretary and clubbed into four Clusters, namely Infrastructure Sector, Social Sector, Regulatory/Enabling/Support Sector and Economic/Commerce-related, as assigned by the Cabinet Secretary. Apart from the Desk work, the young officers have been visiting the Attached Officers besides undertaking field visits.
The officers gave presentations to the Prime Minister on six key themes, including MUDRA, Improving Government Communication, Citizen Centric Service Monitoring, Ek Bharat - Shreshtha Bharat, Soil Health Card scheme and National Mineral Exploration Policy.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Shri P.K. Sinha, Cabinet Secretary said that the novel departure made by imparting the young IAS Officers with initial exposure to Central Government functioning was inspired by the Prime Minister, who has also been routinely personally monitoring their progress. Shri Sinha said the IAS Officers in the initial years of their career learn the regional language of the State they are allotted cadre to and in a few years start belonging to that state, thus inculcating a unique sense of national integration. He said that the young officers have been exposed to various Flagship Programmes of the Central Government. They have been fully trained at the academy and exposed to the working of the Central Government as desired by the Prime Minister and are now ready to take over their assignments in their respective states, he added.
Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training, in his address said that the young officers are fortunate to start their career with the Central Government as some of the officers miss this opportunity once they are posted in their cadre. He said it was first experience even for the DOPT which acted as Training Academy during this period of three months for these officers attached to different Ministries.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, the Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. P.K. Mishra Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, senior officers and Secretaries from different Ministries of the Government were present in the interactive session.
