Civil servants should make empathy, efficiency, impartiality and incorruptibility their guiding principles, said Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu here on Monday.
Mr. Naidu was speaking at the inaugural session of the Foundation course for AIS & CCS Officers at Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy Human Resource Development Institute Of Telangana.
Civil servants should not just comply by democratic framework of governance but also serve the country based on Constitutional provisions, he added.
“It will be your bounden duty to treat the common men in India as your own or to put it correctly, to feel yourself to be one of them,” he reminded the new batch of young officers.
The Vice President also asked officers to constantly be mindful that people expect top bureaucracy to deliver at high level of proficiency and efficiency. “Tardy, inefficient execution of projects and programmes hurts the common people whom we try to serve,” Mr. Naidu explained.
The VP asked officers to be abreast of the latest information and knowledge and use them for improving service delivery.
Mr. Naidu, who called Sardar Vallabhai Patel the maker of post-independence bureaucratic code, said “We must look at the strengths our society offers and how we can build partnerships with civil society and the private sector so that the pace of development can be accelerated and the quality of the services is significantly enhanced”.
Stressing on impartiality, Mr. Naidu asked young civil servants to make sure that they remain non-partisan in the country’s multi-lingual, multi-religious, pluralistic society.
