NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi today emphasised the need for administrators to not work in silos but engage in teamwork.
”National development cannot stay in silos nor the country,” he told members of bureaucracy after giving away awards at the 10th Civil Services Day this morning.
He urged civil servants to shed the old work style of ”reform to transform” and to make it ”reform to perform to transform”.
The Prime Minister also emphasised the need to have greater inter-departmental cohesion by emphasising teamwork irrespective of seniority or lack of experience to achieve results.
”We should try to combine one’s experience with the other’s knowledge” to bridge the inter-generational gap. Stating that as civil servants they had the power to transform society, the PM exhorted the bureaucracy to work as ”agents of change” and transform Indian society.
Whether working as administrator, controller or regulator, the administration was imbued with the responsibility of having to become ‘agents of change’ and make change visible in society.
”You are a force — what all can you not do,” he told the gathering at Vigyan Bhavan among whom was present Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh.
Referring to his personal experience of working with the bureaucracy, Mr Modi praised them saying he had never felt the need to pull them up. Over the past two years, he said, instead he had found single-minded devotion to duty by civil servants, who had worked on Saturdays and Sundays, setting aside even important family events.
In fact many of the budget allocations had gone on schemes espoused by the bureaucracy that were integrated into the Budget, he said. He also put forth the idea of ”Competitive Cooperative Federalism” among the states so that they would be encouraged to embrace progress and bring out reforms. (AGENCIES)
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