Karnati Varun ReddyAIR 7 · CSE 2018 · 206 wordsTheir whole copy
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Ethical qualities of a civil servant like integrity, objectivity, honesty, perseverance, courage, ability to handle pressure, sense of justice, compassion come very handy in dealing with crisis situations like drought, disasters, riots etc.
To illustrate take a flood situation
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(i) Civil servant has to be calm, not to panic to objectively assess the rescue, relief and rehabilitation effort needed.
(ii) He has to instill faith, confidence among people that Government is there to protect them.
- credibility of Government servant matters here, for public to repose faith.
(iii) Perseverance is most crucial due to various challenges like resource constraints, logistics problem, inter-department coordination, issues of poor response.
maybe from civil society.
iv) Compassion, is required to prioritize rescue, relief operations especially focusing on vulnerable like poor, women, disabled, elderly etc.
v) Quality of service in relief and rehabilitation depends on the quality of efficiency and effectiveness of administrator, Integrity to not let funds siphoned off
vi) Longterm futuristic thinking and vision to prevent such disasters in future, taking up flood mitigation programmes, its effective implementation depends on the commitment of the public servant.
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Therefore ethical qualities of the civil servant play a crucial role in the way crisis situation is dealt and public interest is safeguarded.