PM Modi at Civil Services Day function: As it happened

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed the Civil Services Day function here and conferred awards for excellence in public administration on bureaucrats.

Three public administration categories - Individual, Team and Organization - were selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Administration.

The award includes a medal, scroll and a cash prize.

The Prime Minister will also release a book named 'Best Practices - Tomorrow is Here' on the occasion.

Here are the LIVE updates of PM Modi's address: 

• Modi begins his address.
• A life which is full of tension cannot be productive specially if you have to run the nation.
• If you wither, then how will the nation blossom?
• Is your life restricted to a page in file?
• On Civil Services Day, I want you to think that despite being at home you are not really present there thinking of files and other work related matters.
• You must manage time well but do you spend quality time with your family?
• Has your life turned robotic? If so, then it will have an affect the government.
• We will not be able to serve people until the ''insaan'' (human) within us remains alive.
• I take the lesson of “Sheelam Param Bhushanam” (character is the highest virtue) with me wherever I go.
• It is natural to think of Sardar Patel, who worked for nation's integration today. 
• The need of the hour today is socio-economic integration.
• I would like to congratulate all the winners of the awards today.
• The 'ART' of good governance is A- Accountability, R-Responsibility and T-Transparency.
• We need to give priority to perfection and capacity building.
• Modi ends his speech.

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