All central authorities officers put aside an hour on Monday, March 2 to recite, in teams, the three-page decision adopted by the Union cupboard throughout the first assembly within the new Prime Minister’s Workplace(PMO) Seva Teerth, final week; after which focus on it.
Known as the Seva Sankalp Decision, the pledge is a mission assertion of types for the federal government — reflecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient for nation constructing and serving every of the nation’s 1.4 billion residents.
All departments have been requested to offer a report back to cupboard secretariat by Tuesday itemizing particulars of Monday’s exercise and what emerged from it.
“Ministries/ Departments are requested to prepare a gathering of officers of their respective ministry/ division on 02.03.2026 (Monday), whereby this decision could also be learn. Subsequently, discussions could also be held on the decision and strategies to implement it,” the cupboard secretariat mentioned in a memo.
The memo went out to all secretaries final week . Whereas taking a pledge isn’t unusual– bureaucrats take an anti corruption and vigilance pledge yearly — the size of this one is significantly longer than the standard couple of paragraphs that bureaucrats normally take. Some officers, on situation of anonymity, additionally mentioned that the necessary dialogue that was slotted could not have been one of the best use of everybody’s time. A number of ministries such because the aviation ministry and the ministry of exterior affairs are amongst these which were busy tackling the fallout of the struggle that broke out in West Asia over the weekend. Prime Minister Modi, too, convened a gathering of the cupboard committee of safety quickly after touchdown within the Capital late night time on Sunday.
HT reached out to Satendra Singh, further secretary within the cupboard secretariat, who signed this letter however didn’t obtain any response until the paper went to print.
“It was just a little awkward as a result of nobody was fairly positive of what we had been alleged to do,’’ mentioned a senior official that HT spoke to after the pledge-reading and the dialogue. A second official mentioned that the pledge-reading was a daily assembly that occurred of their convention room within the ministry, declining to offer additional particulars.
As reported by HT on Wednesday, the cupboard adopted the Seva decision to “improve India’s delight because the Mom of Democracy.”Elaborating how the transfer from South Block to Seva Teerth was going to alter the work ethic for its inhabitants, the decision mentioned, “The idea of Seva Teerth is shaped from the confluence of each these beliefs. With the sacred confluence of obligation, service, and dedication, this office is envisioned to be as sacred as a pilgrimage, that is its elementary spirit.”
