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Manmohan Singh urges civil servants to build accountable system | Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan
Singh on Saturday urged Civil Servants to work towards building a corruption free,
more transparent and accountable system for efficient delivery of services to
the people. Inaugurating the seventh Civil Services Day event here, Dr. Singh
said: "In my last Civil Services Day address, Dr. Singh said: "Our growth would
not have much meaning if we fail in building a truly inclusive society and country.
Indeed, without inclusion, social and economic, the very sustainability of our
growth processes comes under question." Calling on civil servants to redouble
their efforts to tackle the menace of corruption in public life by adopting more
modern methods, Dr. Singh said: "In my last Civil Services Day address on April
21, 2011, I had outlined the measures that our government had taken or was contemplating
to tackle the menace of corruption in public life. I believe that since then we
have made substantial progress towards strengthening the legislative framework
and revamping our administrative practices to enable us to fight corruption better."
"Even as our government moves forward in these efforts, which I don't want to
list in detail today, it should be our endeavor that there is no witch hunting
in the name of fighting corruption," he added. He further said: "It is our government's
commitment to put in place a system and create an environment in which our civil
servants are encouraged to be decisive, and no one is harassed for bonafide mistakes
of errors of judgment." "We stand committed to protecting honest and well meaning
civil servants who might have made genuine errors in their work. And I sincerely
hope that these intentions of our government are shared by the state governments
too," he added. Dr. Singh further stressed that the civil servants in our country
should fight the tendency of not taking decisions because of the fear that things
might go wrong and they might be penalised for that. "We cannot have a bureaucracy
which is hundred percent risk averse. In fact we should encourage boldness in
decision making, provided that the decisions are well considered and as per the
law of the land. A civil servant who does not take decisions might always be safe,
but at the end of the day he or she would have contributed nothing to our society
and to our country," he said. Stating that the country has full faith in its civil
servants, Dr. Singh said: "They have served our country well. They have made a
very substantial contribution to our country's progress." "I congratulate them
for their achievements. I wish them all the best for the future. But I also hope
that they would constantly endeavor to improve, upgrade and modernize the systems
and processes they adopt and operate in the best interests of our country," he
added.
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