New Delhi: Calling upon young bureaucrats to serve people with an utmost sense of service, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stressed the need for taking 'reform, perform and transform' to the next level. He was addressing the valedictory function of 96th common foundation course at LBSNAA, Mussoorie, via video conferencing.
“In this period of Amrit Kaal, we have to take reform, perform, transform to the next level. That is why today’s India is moving ahead with the spirit of ‘Sabka Prayas.’ Your batch will play a key role in the nation’s development in the Amrit Kaal of the next 25 years. In the emerging post-pandemic new world order, India has to increase its role and develop itself at a fast pace,” he said.
The Prime Minister said that Atma Nirbhar Bharat and Modern India are the biggest goals for us in the 21st century and you should always be mindful of that. In all your years of service, factors of service and duty should be the measure of your personal and professional success,” he said, adding that you do not have to work for numbers but for the lives of the people.
“You should pray for never getting an easy assignment. The more you think of going to the comfort zone, the more you will stop your progress and the progress of the country,” said the Prime Minister and emphasized the need to embrace the experience from the field as real feel of the issues of the file come from the field. He said that files do not contain just the numbers and statistics but they contain life and aspirations of the people.
“You do not have to work for numbers but for the lives of the people,” he said. The Prime Minister said that the officers should always go to the root cause of the problems and rationale of the rules in order to give a permanent solution and gave officers the task of identifying 5-6 challenges of their districts at local level and work for those issues. He said identification of the challenges is the first step in the rectification of the challenges.
He also asked for the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related courses and resources in the syllabus as future problems will have a huge element of data science and ability to sift through that data. /BI/
