‘ BE MORE RESPONSIVE TO MARGINALISED’

New Delhi: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday asked a group of young IAS officers to have a more empathetic, responsive and inclusive approach of administration that cared for women, the differently- abled and marginalised people. Addressing them, e stressed on the need to tackle challenges in delivering basic services to the common man. Naidu said that unless this approach became an integral part of the planning and implementation process, the programmes would not succeed. The vice president asked the IAS officers to look upon people as active agents of transforming India, not merely as target groups or beneficiaries. “You belong to a civil service that was conceived of as a steel frame of our country by the great visionary unifier and the first home minister of independent India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,” he said. Stating that streamlining service delivery and effective, transparent, people- centred good governance were the need of the hour, the vice president stressed on the need to address challenges in delivering basic services to the common man, Personnel Ministry said.