Excellent Speech by Prime Minister - Sheelam Param Bhushanam
IF there is an award for excellence in making speeches to babus, it should go to the Prime Minister. He knows his babu, like no one does.
He narrated his experience as a Chief Minister of how babus used to answer his questions. If he calls one babu, he (babu) would come with a group and when he asks a question, the senior officer would turn his head and his subordinates would whisper something and then he would answer. Modi then instructed that when he calls a babu, he should come alone - he told them, "don't bring the army".
He said he had never been to the academy at Mussoori, and asked the babus whether they teach in Mussoorie to be very serious, as if carrying the whole world's burden. He asked them, "why are you sitting like this; don't worry, I am not going to ask you to do any new work." He said, "You read a lot. You must have read the best books. You are basically like that and that is why you are here. Those who do 'union baji' in college don't come here. Only those who are lost in books come here."
He told them, "if you told your grand children that you started life with a scooter, with a small rented house - and now you have the big car, the flat, the bungalow; they will not be impressed. But if you them about how you changed lives, like how you provided water …. They will be impressed and they will tell their grand children about what you have done."
He asked them to look at history and why certain decisions were taken by their predecessors (he explained why there was a guest house for every twenty kms in a particular district) and he asked them to leave their impressions (and records) for posterity.
He reminded them of the Mussoorie Motto - Sheelam Param Bhushanam
This is a speech that every babu should listen to - You can watch it here.