National Civil Services Day 2022: 21 April

Category : Important Days Published on: April 22 2022

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Every year on April 21, India celebrates and observes National Civil Services Day.
The day is celebrated to mark the efforts of the civil servants working tirelessly and relentlessly in different departments and organisations in order to ensure that the administrative machinery works smoothly.
The first National Civil Services Day was observed in 2006 and the ceremony was held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
The Government of India chose April 21 as the day to celebrate and commemorate National Civil Services Day because on April 21 in 1947, India’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the newly appointed and formed Administrative Service Officers.
Charles Cornwallis is known as the father of the Indian Civil Service because of his contribution to reforming and modernising the civil services in India.