Ensure politicians don't spend taxpayer's money on 'their masters': PM Modi's advice to civil servants

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a task for all bureaucrats of India- to ensure that taxpayers’ money goes back to them instead of politicians for personal gain. PM Modi, while delivering an address at the valedictory session of the 16th Civil Services Day, reiterated that India’s growth would have not been possible without the immense contribution of civil servants and bureaucrats. However, the prime minister added that it also falls on them to analyse all political parties and ministers are using the money collected from taxpayers in serving the citizens and not for personal gain. He further added that civil servants, whether from any state or Centre, must evaluate and ensure if the ruling party is changing policies to create new avenues for black money generation for their ‘masters’.Addressing the civil servants as ‘karmayogi saathi’, the prime minister advised bureaucrats that all their decisions must be driven with the purpose of national interest only.