In a significant development, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has decided to hold interactions between senior and young IAS officers at Sardar Patel’s Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat on Ekta Diwas this year. Such an interaction, called the IAS Mentorship Meet, is going to be held for the first time, for which the DoPT has asked all states and Union Territories to nominate officers.
This has been planned following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion to organise structured interactions between senior and young IAS officers for mentorship and knowledge-sharing.
It was at the national conference of Chief Secretaries in December last year where the PM had wished that the senior batches of IAS and other services should motivate the younger groups by visiting the Statue of Unity and spending a day with them each year on October 31.
The DoPT has suggested in its communication that the veteran as well as young officers may be picked from different batches and with expertise across varied domains of governance, public administration, policy formulation, etc.
As per DoPT’s letter, the responsibility to make all necessary arrangements for the visit of IAS officers lies with the state governments.
The DoPT letter cites the PM’s vision to encourage meaningful engagement between senior and younger civil servants through structured mentorship and knowledge-sharing interactions.
The birth anniversary of India’s first Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was chosen for this interaction as it carries immense symbolic significance and reinforces the ideals of national unity, the DoPT’s letter says.
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