President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said a compassionate civil servant whose heartbeats for the poor and the underprivileged is a true civil servant as distinct from merely a career bureaucrat.
Addressing a group of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, she said uplifting the marginalised sections of society should be an article of faith for them. “You should make efforts to understand the link between ‘file to field’ and also between ‘field to file’. This people-centric alertness and sensitivity will make you engage with the files in a far more meaningful manner,” Murmu said.
The President asked the officers to always visualise the people who are going to be impacted by the files “you deal with”.
A group of 182 IAS officers of 2021 batch, currently posted as assistant secretaries in various Union ministries and departments, had called on Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre here.