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Detailed explanation-1: -The reason for the date is because on 21 April 1947, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel addressed the first batch of civil servants in Independent India at the Metcalf House. He referred to civil servants as the ‘steel frame of India’ in his inspiring speech.

Detailed explanation-2: -Every year on 21 April Civil Service Day is celebrated to rededicate and recommit themselves to the cause of the people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Civil Service Day was established by the government of India in 2006. This day was founded to commemorate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s first address to the nation’s Administrative Services Officers probations in 1947.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hint: Charles Cornwallis reformed and implemented the Civil service system in India. Cornwallis introduced two divisions of the Indian Civil service namely, covenanted and uncovenanted.