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National Civil Service Day 2025 - April 21
April 29 , 2025
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- This day acknowledges and celebrates the exceptional efforts of our civil servants engaged in public service, the backbone of the nation’s administration.
- This national observance was first marked on April 21, 2006.
- On this day in 1947, the first Home Minister of Independent India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, addressed the probationers of Administrative Services Officers at Metcalf House in Delhi.
- He was referring the civil servants as the “steel frame of India”.
- Lord Cornwallis is considered as ‘Father of Civil Services in India’.
- The Charter Act of 1793 established covenanted civil services.
- Lord Wellesley founded the College of Fort William in Calcutta in 1800 to educate young recruits for the Civil Services.
- The Charter Act of 1853 had abolished the patronage system and introduced open competitive examinations.
- A Civil Service Commission was established in London (1854).
- Lord Macaulay’s Report-1856 introduced a merit-based civil service.
- From 1922, ICS exams began in India, initially in Allahabad.
- Public Service Commission was established on 1 October 1926.
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