Technical accomplishment unsocial is not sufficient, and a pupil should person the qualities of attitude, teamwork, openness, communal respect, humility, ethics, transparency, and objectivity to win some successful vocation and life, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Principal Secretary P. K. Mishra said. Addressing the convocation ceremonial of the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai connected Saturday (September 20, 2025), Mr. Mishra said teamwork was astir apt a overmuch much important than idiosyncratic brilliance.
On quality assets development, Mr. Mishra urged the caller graduates to clasp continuous learning, noting that cognition rapidly becomes obsolete successful a fast-changing world. He underscored the situation of instilling values successful ample organisations, and the request for sustained motivation. On the evolving architecture of administrative reforms, Mr. Mishra said the strategical displacement successful unit absorption since 2014 was aimed astatine gathering a “21st period civilian service”.
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— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2025“A cardinal betterment has been the overhaul of the empanelment process for elder positions specified arsenic Joint Secretary, Additional Secretary, and Secretary to the Government of India,” helium said. Moving beyond the limitations of yearly appraisal reports, helium said the authorities had introduced a multi-source feedback strategy successful 2016. “This strategy incorporates evaluations from seniors, juniors, peers, and outer stakeholders, assessing attributes specified arsenic decision-making, ownership, delivery, proactiveness, and estimation for integrity,” Mr. Mishra said.
Reform successful the authorities services had widened the endowment pool, with beardown credibility successful the fairness of selections, helium added. “Domain expertise, aptitude, and estimation present usher appointments crossed the Central authorities and PSUs (public assemblage undertakings),” helium said.
Such changes, the elder bureaucrat said, had been sustained for astir a decade, softly reshaping governance to conscionable the aspirations of a swifly evolving India. The discontinuation of idiosyncratic interviews for Group B and C posts successful 2016 had reduced bias and subjectivity, helium said, and claimed that the ‘Mission Karmayogi’ level had transformed civilian work capableness gathering by hosting much than 3,300 courses and serving implicit 1.3 crore users.
