How Civil Servants Built Modern India | Flashback with Palki Sharma 

Do you think the role of civil servants in independent India has been forgotten? Comment below and join the conversation.

My father retired as a top bureaucrat from Haryana in 1995…from the batch of unusual honest IAS officers!!! Soon after he passed away peacefully. Growing up I never saw him throwing his weight around or being arrogant. As kids we lived in huge government houses with security men and what not but he was very clear that none of that was permanent or ours. He didn’t have properties or tons of money that I heard other IAS officers had. We had one simple house when he retired. That was his earning of life. I remember once my brother got upset with him and hold him, “papa, you should have made tons of money..how come we are always working hard?” And his response was, “ I started from scratch and my goal was to retire with dignity and peace of mind. Money can be momentary but your conscious will always prick you for the wrong deeds.” Good lesson that I tell my kids today. I can’t thank you enough for reminding me how proud I am today to be daughter of an IAS officer who worked day and night to help people and to make a difference.

As an African American I will say I love that India got their country back from an imperial power and now is a world power and will likely dominate the later years of this century.

Civil servants are like the 4th lion of Ashokan emblem “Anonymous ,yet makes its presence felt at all times.”❤❤

Million thanks Ms Palki. I have performed many times election duty at various levels, including six in J&K (1996) and got appreciation letter from Government. You made a wonderful report honouring us. God bless you with success always!

what a beautiful segment. as an IAS aspirant, this just recharged me. Palki ma'am is such a huge part of the reason i still trust media outlets.

This is called Real Journalism🙏

My Shashtang namaskarams to you Palki. My father retired from the IAS and is 93 now. He belonged to that rare breed of honest officers who contributed to India selflessly. While I knew all the while that the Civil services was and is the steel frame work of India ...it is also true that it is loosing its sheen. The current breed are more keen on posting their own videos and blowing their own trumpet not understanding that it is their work they have to do. Being down to earth is missing...colluding with politicians for personal benefits is rampant...what I am saying is..they are diluting their own respect. Today I am proud of my dad and privileged to be son of an unsung hero...but the truth is he has always been my hero...admiring him silently..thanks Palki...May God bless you with eternal happiness. Jai hind. Jai Shri Ram.

This is a great tribute to our unsung bureaucrats. Let’ respect them

Thanku Palki Sharma for this tribute to our unsung bureaucrats ❤️These bureaucrats were truly like engines that run our country🇮🇳 Respect to all ur civil servants for their service❤️

Look at our US civil servants.... mostly corrupt. I'd like to forget them. Your reporting of India's history of civil servants was eye-opening and should always be remembered....

A huge thanks to Palki Sharma and team for narrating this flashback and bringing this to the forefront. I'm really glad to see journalists like Palki speak out their heart that throbs for the wellbeing of this nation.

And now we have 5 ex-bureaucrats as Ministers in Central govt. 1)Dr. S. Jayashankar (ex-IFS) 2) Ashwini Vaishnav ( ex-IAS) 3) Piyush Goyal (ex- IAS) 4) Hardeep Singh Puri (ex-IFS) 5) R K Singh (ex -IAS ) 😊😊😊😊

Thanqu for having this topic Palki mam. I myself is a UPSC Aspirant preparing to serve this honorable service & your show helps me a lot for my preparations, especially for the FOREIGN RELATIONS AND FOREIGN POLICY of India.❤

True leaders behind the scenes. Excellent journalism. Nice tribute to our real heroes 👍

That’s the reason why we love Palki. While other media outlets are busy showing crap, you bring this amazing story that needs to be told.

A heartful salutation for our legendaries who have given us Independent India. Bande mataram 🇮🇳

Finally someone who appreciated the worth and hardwork of our executive officers. Yes we have some cunning minds among them, but nevertheless there are way more hardworking people. We must acknowledge and appreciate them. Thankyou Palki❤❤

Just wow what a topic to pick....hats off for honouring and remembering the silent backbone of our nation

I love how she explains things so average ppl can understand. Even ppl not familiar with India. Well done from Jamaica

I've learned more about Indian history in this 10 minute video than my entire time in high school where learning about european history was shoved down my throat without ever learning about African and Asian histories. But video series like these are helping to rectify that gross oversight.

On this independence day.... Let's honor those unsung heros... 🥳🥳🥳

A big salute to our unsung heroes.

8:12 "beating heart of india democracy "🔥 as an upsc aspirant this 9 mints filled my heart with pride.. civil servants are the foot soldiers of india!.

These episodes were needed . To know about our long lost history , how back then all things functioned and how we actually started after 1947 🎉

Thanks for bringing such an untold story and the other side of the bureaucracy to the public. There are still unsung heroes who are trying to bring positive change under all odds.

Brilliant presentation and topic to discuss.....Finally a long deserved recognition

Corruption is more rampant in india ,modern day bureaucrats are corrupt to the greater extent of course plenty are honest too

Nice celebrating the people that actually make the world work. This is why I love this channel.

Indeed its huge effort to collect and collate the data of civil servants who remined and remain as foundation for sound admn.These civ servants matter a lot even today.Indeed its profound gesture in covering this most civil servants from pre indepence to the present contexts.

Much needed tribute....great work palki...🙌⭐️

Palkiji🌹, Bureaucrats are the Real Heroes, Who lay down the foundation for the development of country 🇮🇳. At the same time, Political will is so important 😊

Palki is one of my favorite, her delivery crisp, absolutely clear, classy and spot on. She is one of the very few India has

Infact...Civil servant are the famous for creating hurdle to improve the life standards of normal people..they are usually full of erogance, ruthless, samantwadi...very few of them have been the real visionary.

Thanks for highlighting the importance of civil services of India. If not for them, politicians would have destroyed India.

👍.Palki is one of the very few respected anchors known for their sincerity, integrity, and to the point narrations 👍🙏

Man.. as a CSE aspirant this filled my heart with pride!

This is how journalism should be.... all the other top journalists should work for India and not for any political parties... Palki is the Change we see and we expect more....

It is thanks to a handful of bureaucrats that our country Bharat has come such a long way. It's true that a majority of bureaucrats are corrupt to the core...but it is those handful of such honest and upright officers that Bharat is where it is today. Yashsvi Bhava 🙏🏼

Salute to our all Beaurocrates ❤ Palki you always nails with topic you choose and at choosing tge topic

Yes, diligant selfless visionary bureaucrats are indeed unsung heroes we should give them due credit

Lovely episode. Thank you Palki Sharma. Hope you get to read this comment. Here is a nice story about the genesis of the great Green Revolution. The first decade after independence was disastrous with famine, starvation and poverty. It was three bureaucrats who hatched a plan. A government scientist, who had just been returned from the U.S. after working with Professor Norman Borlaug, along with Home Secretary Shivaramakrishnan and finance secretary Subramanyam convinced PM Shastry to lift the ban on agricultural seed imports. That scientist was Professor MS Swaminathan. He used the improved seeds from the US and Europe to develop high yielding crop varieties for the Indian farmers. India’s food production grew rapidly and triggered economic growth and prosperity. We call him the Father of Green Revolution and we will celebrate his 98th birthday tomorrow August 7.

Very true Many contributions & great work s Go unnoticed & unrecognized

How I wish this kind of Program exist of Philippine News. People would learn history of our country even more.

Palki ji , who ever gave you thought of this episode must be saluted . Needless to say your entire team and you for bringing a extremely nice piece of history. We thank all our Heros who built our nation . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._R._Pillai and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukumar_Sen_(civil_servant) . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendranath_Tagore . A lot more ....

Thank you... For honouring the unsung heroes.... 🙏🏻

Excluding u no one is speaking about this Really appreciated journalism in right way ❤from an citizen of India u are the one who should democratic to keep india democratic ❤

In my country Brazil the population is deeply divided. There is no chance of Brazil going anywhere but to disaster. Brazilians are reaching the point of hating each other.

Excellent thought to remember the forgotten heros of freedom years. Deserve to be honoured for their dedication and thoughtfulness.

Great to see that atleast sm1 have showed these CS as unsung hero's of our nations building.ous pride our CServents

True , many contributions & great work s go unrecognized

Appreciate the great detailing and helping us to remember our PAST - Thank you very much 🙂

it was truely said that ministers come and go but ministry [ civil servants ] always remains. they are heroes who in reality run the country

I literally felt this video . Real heroes. Army at borders and civil servants at home .

जय हिन्द, जय भारत।। वंदे मातरम्, भारत माता की जय।। जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द की सेना।।

Always waiting for the Flashback every weekends. Thank you team for the hard work!

One of the most important episodes…. A positive side of bureaucracy 🎉

Well deserved recognition to our Govt.Officers that held India together and match ahead as the largest democracy of the World.Pranams to All.

Goosebumps and nothing else .. Thanks to PS ..and the channel.... BHARAT MATA KI JAI ..

Interesting series mam. We love it. We want to discover India 🇮🇳

This job is great, Madom Palki, keep it up.

India needs more civil servants the gems of Indian democracy.

They were ,are and shall always remain backbone of INDIA ... There is no doubt in it. They indeed are one of the best, top notch, second to none... and that's why today India is not in a state of Pakistan....

Great job you are doing through this series of news.

Only you can do justice to such topics ! Great art of story telling ❤

Thank you, this is an eye opener but since 2014 eyes are closed.

Wow Palki like always great report thank you so much for the recognition of all the past heroes !!! And today you’re certainly one love Your honesty & truthfulness way to go Palki

Great and honest story for those hardworking officers of INDIA 🇮🇳🇮🇳

upsc aspirants assemble here....wishing all the best ...

Thank you for this information & making us understand the importance of civil services officers ( Indian) in pre-independence India.True unsung heros🙏

Thank you @palkisu ji for this timely tally of Bhāratiya Unsung Heroes. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Vandé Mātaram and Jai Hind 👌🕉🇮🇳🇬🇧🙏

Super topic for discussion. Great job.

You are doing great di and your team too👍

Excellent post. Yes it is true that the Civil Service officers and the government officials who have built our modern India. It is also a fact that we would not have been united but for their contribution.

Truly appreciatable

Shown only the rosy side and not the bad part😊

Many people forget or ignore that if all Bureaucrats were like that then our country will be not running and at least not on the level it is standing today.

A very authentic report … thanks a lot for honouring those numerous nameless faces who runs the country.

Excellent presentation. These flashbacks on modern Indian history by Palki Sharma are enlightening for most Indians for whom these finer details of Indian History were never taught nor discussed in school and collage curriculum. I Wish Palki Sharma would dwell more on such subjects. She has the disposition and demeanor for such presentations .

Very well explained with interesting facts 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻

This is the 63rd day of eagerly waiting for Palki to finally grace us with her episode on Indian trains. It felt like a miracle, an interesting twist of fate that her previous video about Indian trains was released just one day before the grand triple train event in Odisha. I remembered how passionately she praise upon the advancements, sophistication, high quality and sheer brilliance of Indian trains during that segment! The anticipation is driving me wild; I can't wait to feast my eyes on this exquisite masterpiece of a video soon. I'm convinced it will be an extraordinary episode. I have been saving all popcorn for this very special occasion.

Dhanyavad aur Anumodana 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Proud to be a CS i can just hope to carry forward the dreams of ur legendary fathers and mothers

Million thanx to palki Sharma. A rare insight of how India built themselves, a smooth transition from British to भारत, from भारत तो democratic strong Bharat Desh. The paper put by you shows your in-depth knowledge, without which you would not touch any subject. Thnx.

But we should also notice the cancer of corruption engineered by some extremely corrupt bureaucrats, those who charge their percent of share even in the slightest of administrative and executive procedures .

Great blessings to all civil servants and their children and grandchildren who work honestly and tirelessly to improve this nation and take it to higher level in all spheres. A great respect to all unsung heroes of ICS.

Very harsh, we treated . Belated honour, remebering them. Thank you Palki making us all realise, The Hardwork n Efforts put in to experience this largest Democracy.

Thanks for picking this topic Palkii👌🏽

First post needs to make clip on Indian justice system. Its rottinnto the core and millions of Indian are without justice. same on all these channels who really dont to talk about justice not delivered.😢

My father is in police and has to go to night duties at off hours at the age of 55 years. During elections or some protest, they have to be at location, sometimes 14 hours in scorching temps. Of 40-45 degree C.He is honest at his job, and sometimes even do overtime volunteeringly. And yet all over India, policemen are ridiculed by generalization. Feel sad to see this.

Very well researched. The contribution of Civil servants to nation building deserves recognition and appreciation.

We should also remember that civil servants are also quite prone to corruption and grossly misuse their power

I am a Tehsildar from Pakistan. This video proved really useful to me to understand how important the role of bureaucracy has been since beginning.

Really, chills running down my spine.

Wonderful nostalgic history,thank you Palki.

It is Indian Citizens and not Civil Servants who are unsung heros. They've contributed to India's growth as entrepreneurs, engineers, farmers, and artists...

Palki, the landscape is changing. The bureaucrats are turning more corrupt than the politicians. Iam not blanket blaming the civil servants.

Your Videos are really eyes opening for every indian citizen.❤

A must watch reportage by Palki and first post. Kudos for their thoughtfullnes in bringing out these unsung heroes 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

We respect the good, we learn from mistakes and move forward collectively.