National Civil Services Day, April 21: It is observed on April 21 every year to acknowledge the work of officers who are engaged in various public service departments in the country. It is also a reminder for civil servants to run the administrative machinery of the country collectively and with a dedication to serving the citizens.
The date of April 21 was chosen to commemorate the day in 1947 when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of Independent India, addressed probationers of Administrative Services Officers at Metcalf House in Delhi. He referred to civil servants as the ‘steel frame of India‘. That is civil servants who are working in different departments or at various levels of the government act as the supporting pillars of the administrative system of the country.
