Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with newly appointed IAS officers in New Delhi today as part of the government's policy to allow them familiarise 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. Mr. Modi will address them on different important governance-related measures.