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KATHUA: BJP State General Secretary and MLA Kathua Constituency, Rajiv Jasrotia felicitated Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, an IAS officer of 2009 batch for receiving country’s highest Civil Services honour, the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration.
Speaking on the occasion, Jasrotia said that Civil Services are the backbone of system of India. They are the pillars of country’s legal system as civil services officers take career of particular departments of the civil framework of the Country.
Giving significance of civil services, he said there are many professions which are lucrative and prestigious that includes engineering, management, medical and the information technology sector but no one can match the status of civil services which command a respect and satisfaction like no other. Even the near and dear ones of civil servants are too brim with pride when they refer to the IAS man or woman in their family.
