UPSC Foundation Day lecture on Governance will be held in Vigyan Bhawan on May 3, 2011. Vice President of India, Shri Hamid Ansari will be the main speaker. This year’s theme for the lecture is ‘Governance and Public Service.’
The founding fathers of the Indian Republic envisaged an important role for the UPSC as the bedrock in the vital machinery of governance. The responsibility for recruiting the finest talent for manning the civil services and protecting their just interests so that they may act impartially and fearlessly are some of the tasks given to the Commission under the Constitution. It is in furthering its central role in the governance that UPSC thought of holding an annual lecture series focusing on different areas of governance each year. This is the second lecture in the series. This lecture series aims at providing a forum for raising issues of contemporary relevance to governance and public administration. It is hoped that it would generate ideas and fresh thinking that will help not only the UPSC, but concomitantly all other different units of governance as well.
It has been said that there is a need to reorient the governance structures so as to make them more accountable, transparent and outcome driven. Administrative systems have to keep pace with people’s aspirations. There is also an acknowledged need for modernizing the administrative mechanism. The central role of the public service in reorienting the administrative mechanism is agreed upon. There have been many initiatives in recent times to address the pressing matters of administrative reform, and this lecture is expected to add an important and timely input to the process.
The founding fathers of the Indian Republic envisaged an important role for the UPSC as the bedrock in the vital machinery of governance. The responsibility for recruiting the finest talent for manning the civil services and protecting their just interests so that they may act impartially and fearlessly are some of the tasks given to the Commission under the Constitution. It is in furthering its central role in the governance that UPSC thought of holding an annual lecture series focusing on different areas of governance each year. This is the second lecture in the series. This lecture series aims at providing a forum for raising issues of contemporary relevance to governance and public administration. It is hoped that it would generate ideas and fresh thinking that will help not only the UPSC, but concomitantly all other different units of governance as well.
It has been said that there is a need to reorient the governance structures so as to make them more accountable, transparent and outcome driven. Administrative systems have to keep pace with people’s aspirations. There is also an acknowledged need for modernizing the administrative mechanism. The central role of the public service in reorienting the administrative mechanism is agreed upon. There have been many initiatives in recent times to address the pressing matters of administrative reform, and this lecture is expected to add an important and timely input to the process.
Courtesy : PIB
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