CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Civil Services Day marks an occasion to celebrate the untold examples of Civil Servants doing the right thing and producing results in critical areas using innovative approaches.

Detailed explanation-2: -About Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: He served as India’s first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister and brought numerous Indian princely states together to form an Indian federation. His birth anniversary is officially celebrated as National Unity Day in India. He was also regarded for the idea of Civil Service Day.

Detailed explanation-3: -Warren Hastings is credited for laying the foundations of the Civil Services in India while it was Charles Cornwallis who reformed and modernized the inner workings of the Civil Services. For his efforts, Charles Cornwallis is known as the ‘Father of Civil Service in India’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lord Cornwallis, one of the Governor Generals of Bengal, introduced the Civil Services to India. Initially, only Europeans were appointed as officers in the Indian Civil Services.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallis reformed, modernised, and rationalised it. Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as ‘the Father of civil service in India’. Cornwallis introduced two divisions of the Indian Civil service-covenanted and uncovenanted.