Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 29 : Addressing IAS and Civil Service toppers of 2013 whose result was declared recently, Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Space and Atomic Energy, said that in the changing milieu of the 21st century Indian society, the new incumbents into the administrative services will have the good fortune of contributing to the making of a viable, progressive India destined to become a world power within next two decades.
At an interactive session, the first of its kind organized at the initiative of the MoS (Personnel) Dr Jitendra Singh, 15 meritorious young boys and girls from the recently declared Civil Services Exam result participated in a one-to-one dialogue with the Minister. Hailing from different parts of the country, the new pass-outs are now going to be allocated service cadres on the basis of their rank, preference, medical status and availability of vacancies in each category. Candidates allocated to IAS / IPS / IFS and other Group ‘A’ Services will also undergo foundation course at Institutes identified by DoPT.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that Administrative Services today are no longer to the same as these were in the first decade after independence because today there is much higher degree of transparency, accountability and decentralization of authority compared to what it was earlier.
Replying to a wide range of questions put up by the young Civil Service pass outs, Dr Jitendra Singh said modesty or humility is a virtue which comes partly by natural attitude and partly by continuous regular introspection of one’s inner self. A person, who forgets to be humble, ceases to learn in life as a result of which his own growth gets halted while others move on.
Suggesting that one needs to be humble not for others but for himself, Dr Jitendra Singh said, many a time when we join the services, we are modest but the aura and extraneous grandeur of the official position gradually begins to take its toll.
Among the IAS toppers who attended the interactive session where Munish Sharma (Rank 2), Rachit Raj (Rank 3), Dr Bharti Dixit (Rank 5), Sakshi Sawhney (Rank 6), Johny Tom Varghese (Rank 8) and Medha Roopam (Rank 10). Also present on the occasion Secretary (Personnel) Sanjay Kothari, Establishment Officer Bhanu Pratap Sharma, Personal Secretary to MoS M. Saravanan, Additional Secretary Bhaskar Khulbe, Joint Secretaries Mamta Kundra and Archana Varma.
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