UPSC Mains Previous Year Question With Answer Lecture 4 – GS Paper Answer writing – Free PDF Download

Q.) Identify five ethical traits on which one can plot the performance of a civil servant. Justify their inclusion in the matrix. (150 Words) (10 marks)

Q.) पांच नैतिक लक्षणों की पहचान करें जिन पर कोई एक सिविल सेवक के प्रदर्शन की साजिश रच सकता है। मैट्रिक्स में उनके समावेश का औचित्य सिद्ध कीजिए। (150 शब्द) (10 अंक)

General Studies paper – 4 Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude, public services, moral value 

Introduction

• Ethics can be defined as a set of “moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conduct of an activity”. Ethics relates primarily to the nature of ultimate values and standards by which human actions can be judged. Ethics are subjective standard of rights and wrong.

Body

• For a civil servant, acting ethically is of utmost importance. A civil servant is supposed to possess the virtues of objectivity and impartiality.
• The five ethical traits – Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Objectivity, and Selflessness – form the ethical foundation of a civil servant and other values like nonpartisanship, tolerance, responsiveness can emanate from them.

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