<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 22pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prime Minister Narendra </span>Modi  will<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> interact with newly appointed IAS officers in New Delhi today as part of the government's policy to allow </span>them<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>familiarise<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> with the functioning of the central government. As many as 176 newly appointed IAS officers of 2016 batch have been posted as Assistant Secretaries in different central government departments as their first posting. The posting is part of a unique initiative started by the central government to groom bureaucrats at the Centre before they move out to their respective state cadres. </span>Mr.<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Modi will address them on different important governance-related measures.</span></p>