“Mission Satyanishtha”

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Relevance GS 4 Ethics and Integrity 

About Mission -: 

The issue of Ethics, Integrity and probity in public life have been a matter of concern all over the government sector. 
In this context it is also extremely important that all railway servants adhere to impeccable conduct and integrity at all times. 
“Mission Satyanishtha” launched on 27th July 2018 aims at sensitizing all railway employees about the need to adhere to good ethics and to maintain high standards of integrity at work.
 Talks and Lectures on the subject are being organised all over the Indian Railways today for this purpose.  

Objective -: 

  1. To train every employee to understand the need and value of ethics in Personal and Public life.
  2. To deal with ethical dilemmas in life and Public Governance.
  3. To help understand the policies of Indian Railways on ethics and integrity and the employee’s role in upholding the same.
  4. To develop inner governance through tapping inner resources.
Way Ahead -: 

“People define an organization and an organization defines its people, hence, work culture has to be improved and transparency brought about, data should be displayed on public domains so as to get constructive feedbacks from the users”. 

 “Lack of interest towards work in any system, may be termed as unethical amounting to corruption”.


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