PM asks civil servants to be innovative

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged civil servants to work with innovative ideas in resolving problems of their respective areas and implementing development programmes keeping in mind local perspectives.

“Government officials should not take their job as a routine service. Each of them must come up with innovative ideas in discharging duties for the welfare of people and progress of the country,” she said while distributing Public Administration Award at Osmani Memorial Hall coinciding with Public Service Day.

The premier said the civil service is meant to serve the people while civil servants are provided with required training at home and abroad so they could deliver their job to serve people in expected manner, reports BSS.

“These trainings should not be taken as a routine thing, the trainings should be used for the welfare of the people,” she told the function organised by Public Administration Ministry.

Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam presided over the function while state minister Ismat Ara Sadek, Cabinet Secretary M Shafiul Alam and Senior Secretary of MoPA Mozammel Haq Khan also spoke.

This year 14 government officials were given the Public Administration Award in two categories.