Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said bureaucrats should constantly experiment and evolve new reforms to do away with obsolete laws and make governance easy and people-friendly. Speaking at induction training programme for newly inducted Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, Singh said the government is committed to provide optimum opportunity to every bureaucrat to perform to the best of his ability and potential and without intimidation.
“At the same time, the bureaucrats will also be expected to constantly experiment and evolve new reforms which can do away with obsolete rules and make the governance easy and people-friendly,” he said addressing a group of IAS officers who have been appointed as Assistant Secretaries in different ministries here as part of a first-of-its-kind initiative by the Union government to groom them at the Centre before they move out to their respective state cadres.
He also cited Narendra Modi government’s revolutionary decision to do away with the practice of getting certificates attested and instead introduced the self-attested certification.
Singh, Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office, said a pan-India vision in governance not only helps the officer deliver better but also enables him to serve with equal utility in any part of this vast country.
He said the IAS has come a long way since the times it was adopted as a legacy of erstwhile Indian Civil Services even though that comparison is unequal and unfair because the responsibilities of an Indian bureaucrat are much more complex and diverse compared to his counterpart in any other part of the world.