Country’s entire civil society responded generously to PM Modi’s call for Janata Curfew by blowing Conch cells, clapping and cranckling plates to express gratitude and solidarity with the doctors and paramedics serving Coronavirus patients. But is that enough? The PM thanked Air India for its services in bringing Indians stranded in countries affected from Coronavirus. But the fact of the matter is that the entire government machinery, public sector enterprises, civil servants, government officials across the hierarchy need to be thanked and applauded for relentless service directly or indirectly putting their own lives at risk. People quite often make careless remarks on government establishments but the country is watching that entire machinery is involved ensuring health services, enforcement agencies ensuring law & order, issuing SOPs, circulating guidelines, executing regulatory mechanism, securing the supply of food, fuel, milk, medicine, water, electricity, banking and whatnot. Ministries, departments, municipal bodies are at work round the clock. There are numerous government officials who are working day and night in the service of the nation. For example; a Director level officer in the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority suffering auto-immune disease refused his family’s request to abstain from office in the hours of emergency needs. Another IAS officer Nikunja Dhal (1993), Principal Secretary, Health, Govt of Odisha, showed exemplary courage and sense of responsibility when he joined office the very next day he performed the last rites of his father. Lateral entry in Civil Service from the corporate sector is appreciated in bureaucracy but it’s not corporate sector which contributes in the hours of crisis the way the government framework does. It does not mean at all that the country does not recognise the service and contribution of the private sector in nation-building. Amid lockdown a long list of service and officials going viral on social media which reads;
Country’s entire civil society responded generously to PM Modi’s call for Janata Curfew by blowing Conch cells, clapping and cranckling plates to express gratitude and solidarity with the doctors and paramedics serving Coronavirus patients. But is that enough? The PM thanked Air India for its services in bringing Indians stranded in countries affected from Coronavirus.
But the fact of the matter is that the entire government machinery, public sector enterprises, civil servants, government officials across the hierarchy need to be thanked and applauded for relentless service directly or indirectly putting their own lives at risk.
People quite often make careless remarks on government establishments but the country is watching that entire machinery is involved ensuring health services, enforcement agencies ensuring law & order, issuing SOPs, circulating guidelines, executing regulatory mechanism, securing the supply of food, fuel, milk, medicine, water, electricity, banking and whatnot.
Ministries, departments, municipal bodies are at work round the clock. There are numerous government officials who are working day and night in the service of the nation. For example; a Director level officer in the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority suffering auto-immune disease refused his family’s request to abstain from office in the hours of emergency needs. Another IAS officer Nikunja Dhal (1993), Principal Secretary, Health, Govt of Odisha, showed exemplary courage and sense of responsibility when he joined office the very next day he performed the last rites of his father. Lateral entry in Civil Service from the corporate sector is appreciated in bureaucracy but it’s not corporate sector which contributes in the hours of crisis the way the government framework does. It does not mean at all that the country does not recognise the service and contribution of the private sector in nation-building.
Amid lockdown a long list of service and officials going viral on social media which reads;