CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
National Civil Service Day – Observed on Apr 21
- The Government of India chose April 21 as the National Civil Service Day as on this day the country’s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the newly appointed Administrative Services Officers in 1947.
- The historic occasion took place at the Metcalf House in Delhi.
- During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallisreformed, modernized, and rationalized it.
- Hence, Charles Cornwallisis known as ‘the Father of civil service in India’.
- Cornwallis introduced two divisions of the Indian Civil service.
- Following Lord Macaulay’s Report of the Select Committee of British Parliament, the concept of a merit based modern Civil Service in India was introduced in 1854.
- The present-day all-India administrative services owe their origin to Sardar Patel’s sagacity and thus he is regarded as Father of modern All India Services.
