New Delhi, Aug 7 (UNI) Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday urged young IAS officers to treat their vocation as a mission to bridge rich-poor, men-women and urban-rural divides and be pro-active change-agents in building a New India.
Addressing the valedictory ceremony of a two-year training programme for IAS officers 2018 batch at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) through video conferencing, he said the socio-economic uplift of marginalised sections should be their main goal.
Reminding the officers that the unifier of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel dreamt of a civil service that would work zealously to create a new nation by fighting poverty and discrimination, he asked them to be honest, disciplined, simple, responsible, transparent and accountable.