Civil Services Day This is not a festival, but this day opens opportunity and encourages the youth to do something to the nation, let us celebrate this day as an Indian festival.
The Civil Services refer to the career bureaucrats who are the permanent executive branch of the Republic of India. The civil service system is the backbone of the administrative machinery of the country.
In India's parliamentary democracy, The ultimate responsibility for running the administration rests with the people's elected representatives—cabinet ministers. But a handful of ministers cannot be expected to deal personally with the manifold problems of modern administration. Thus the ministers lay down the policy and it is for the civil servants, who serve at the pleasure of the President of India. Civil servants are employees of the Government of India or of the states. As of 2010, there were 50,000 civil servants to administer.
The present civil services of India are mainly based on the pattern of the former Indian Civil Service of British India. Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallis reformed, modernized, and rationalized it. Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as 'the father of civil service in India'. With the passing of the Government of India Act 1919, the Imperial Services headed by the Secretary of State for India was split into two—the All India Services and the Central Services. The All India and Central Services (Group A) were designated as Central Superior Services as early as 1924. From 1924 to 1934, the administration of India consisted of 10 All India Services and 5 central departments, all under the control of the Secretary of State for India, and 3 central departments under joint Provincial and Imperial Control.
The present modern civil service was formed after the partition of India in 1947. It was Sardar Patel's vision that the civil service should strengthen cohesion and national unity. This date, 21st April, is chosen to commemorate the day when the first Home Minister of Independent India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the probationers of Administrative Services Officers in 1947 at Metcalf House, Delhi, he referred to civil servants as the ‘steel frame of India’. The first such function was held in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi 21 April 2006.
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Indeed, Civil Servants are "the steel frame of India".
ReplyDeleteThanks to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, "The Iron Man of India", for his contributions.
Good article.