<span style="color: #222222;">President Droupadi Murmu has exhorted young bureaucrats to work with passion and pride to ensure that the India of 2047 will be much more prosperous, strong, and happy. The President was addressing a group of 175 IAS officers of 2020 batch at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.<br />''<br />''Addressing the officers, the President said that as civil servants, they have an important role to play in the emergence of India as a global hub of knowledge, supply-chain, innovation, technology development, and various other fields. She said that for shaping India of 2047, the bureaucracy has to work with a modern and service-oriented mindset. She noted that Mission Karmayogi is a major initiative to make civil servants more modern, dynamic, and sensitive in their approach.<br />''<br />''The President added that India has to strengthen the leadership position it has taken in the areas of socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable development. She said that civil servants should be guided by dedication to public service, empathy, and compassion towards the weaker sections, maintaining highest standards of integrity and conduct and impartiality and objectivity. </span><br />