Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel on Tuesday urged the toppers of civil service examination to become the “architects of New India”.
Speaking at a ceremony here to felicitate the civil service toppers of 2017, he urged them to utilise the opportunities available during their long careers for building a ‘New India’, which is going to be a super power.
The Minister noted that out of the 20 top rankers, 14 have engineering background and two toppers are with medical background. “Many of them had early education from Government schools in small towns. This indicates that educational opportunities to excel are not just limited to the metro cities, he added. He said that it has been a learning experience to interact with the young achievers during the felicitation, which is being organised by the Government for the last four years,” said Singh.
Singh said, during the last few years, Government has initiated the practice of posting IAS officers early in their careers as Assistant Secretaries to be mentored for a period of 3 months in different Ministries/Departments of Government of India. It introduces the officers to various aspects of the functioning of the Central Government, he said.