Introduction: Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated 10th Civil Services Day and expressed his thoughts on civil servants that they are not only doing a JOB but also a service to the Nation and he added that at energy level, to be an agent of change.
Jan Bhagidari:
Prime Minister accolades the Initiatives of Jan Bhagidari and engagement with civil society
About: Jan Bhagidari
It is an initiative of the government of the state of Delhi in India to promote broad-based civic participation in local governance.
Points delivered by PM
- Civil servants need to redefine their nation’s role
- Move beyond controlling, regulating and managerial capabilities
- Think of themselves as change agents
- Advised civil servants to work as single team
- Adopt the mantra of Reform to Transfom
- To engage with the people so that Schemes and initiatives made by the government to be implemented at better level on the field
- Energy of 125 crore Indians will take the nation ahead towards progress
Important Points: He shortlisted 74 success stories for awards this years and urged all districts to be proactive in this regards where only about 10% of Districts represents
Success would be Inspirational to Civil Aspirants.
PM Modi confers awards to civil servants on 10th Civil Services Day
Prime Minister accorded awards to Civil Servants for Excel in Implementation of Programmes and Schemes made by Government
No. of Districts were awarded: 10
Under the four Priority Programmes
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna – Opening Zero Balance Accounts
- Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) – Clean India Programme
- Swachh Vidyalaya – ‘Clean India: Clean Schools’
- Soil Health Card Scheme – To Farmers for health or quality of a soil
* First time a new category of Excellence in implementing a Priority Programme has been awarded
Features:
Acknowledge, recognize and reward the extraordinary and innovative work done by officers of the Central and State Governments for the welfare of the Indian Citizens
| Sl No | Programme | Received by | On Behalf of |
| 1 | Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana | LDM of Allahabad bank of India Raj Kishore Prasad | 24 North Paraganas |
| LDM of Union bank of India Surendra Chandra Das | behalf of Navgaon, Assam | ||
| LDM of Punjab National Bank Pramod Narayan | Chandigarh | ||
| 2 | Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) | Dr Savita Anand, Principal Resident Commissioner of Rajasthan | Bikaner |
| Aishwariya Singh, District Collector | West Sikkim | ||
| 3 | Swachh Vidyalaya | Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh | |
| Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir | |||
| Dadar & Nagar Haveli | |||
| 4 | Soil Health Card Scheme category | District Collector of the district | Balrampur district of Chhattisgarh |
| Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh |
