PM Gives Away Awards for Excellence in Public Administration,

(PIB NEWS) Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh  inaugurated the Civil Services Day, 2010 here today. Awards for Excellence in Public Administration were also presented to the winners. In his remarks, Dr. Manmohan Singh said the civil services have a major role to play in helping government fashion a suitable and adequate response to various issues that face the country. The civil servant of today should not only be alive and sensitive to the problems at hand but should also be well equipped to tackle them. He further said that Civil servants have a pivotal role in ensuring that the benefits of our programmes percolate to the farthest and remotest villages of our country. It is a daunting task that will test the endurance and mettle of our civil servants, especially that of the All-India Services. The Prime Minister urged the bureaucracy to devise innovative ways and means to harness the tools of information technology and to involve the intended beneficiaries in implementation so that complaints of leakages, complaints of corruption and complaints of lack of transparency get addressed. He said that Civil Services Day gives a unique opportunity to officers belonging to various services, and to various states, to come together to share experience and exchange views on important issues of national concern. It would not be an exaggeration to say that our civil services have lived up to this expectation, he said. ======================================================