Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh on Tuesday felicitated the top 20 rank holders of the civil services examination, the majority of them being women, here and said the country is moving from women participation to women leadership.
In his welcome address, he described the 2022 batch of civil servants as the "Batch of Change Leaders", as they will be in key positions of governance when India will celebrate 100 years of Independence after 25 years as one of the frontline countries of the world.
Singh said, the first four toppers and 60 per cent out of the top 20 happen to be women and this is a great reflection of demographic change happening in the last nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, where India is moving from women participation to women leadership, according to an official statement.
The top 20 candidates comprise 12 female and 8 male candidates, it said.
He recalled that last year also the top three toppers were women and hoped that hattrick will be made in the 2023 civil services examination.
Singh also underlined that this year out of the top 20, there are only eight engineers, one medico and the rest are from humanities and he welcomed this change describing it democratisation of services through optimum use of technology.