New Delhi: Civil servants should be “agents of the change which they wish to see in their society and country”, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.
Addressing a group of probationers of the Indian Postal Service (2010-2013 batches) and the Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service (2011-2013 batches), Mukherjee said the officers were entering service at a time of great flux and ever increasing expectations of the citizenry.
“As the nature and scope of the activities of the state changes, the role of its administration assumes greater importance such as Right to Information, Right to Education, etc.
Therefore, the greatest challenge before the civil servants today is to adjust to this new role of the government,” he added.
The president urged the officer trainees “to be the agents of the change which you wish to see in your society and country.”
