Examples

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Great Personalities/ Leaders

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Who Event Values Remarks

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Jacinda - Young PM of NZ
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Ardern - Gave birth during office (only 2nd elected woman in world
after Benazir Bhutto)
- Took her daughter Neve to UNGA meeting
Devki - Environmentalist -- Padma Shree - 2020
Amma
Abiy Ahmed - Nobel peace Prize for ending Civil War between Ethiopia &
Eritrea
Muhammad - Mohammad Ali (nobody at the time) vs Liston (reigning - Emotional
Ali champion) -- analysed not just game but also psychology intelligence
- Didn't give up just because matched against a champion - Courage of
- Defeated by playing with psychology conviction
Baba Amte
Capt. - Dil Mangey More = 'words' - Optimism in
Vikram the face of
Batra adversity

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 Anadi Bera Set up a residents' association called 'People's Welfare
Association' in WB -- empowered them to gain access to govt
health and literacy programs
Arn Chorn- - Cambodian musician, human rights activist and survivor of
Pond Khmer Rouge regime
- 'child of war who became a man of peace'
Alexandra - US Senator -- gave students the chance to volunteer during
Ocasio- elections
Cortez
Satish - Shouldered moral responsibility of failure of PSLV
Dhawan
Edinburgh - First 7 women to study medicine at Edinburgh university in - Resilience - Patriarchy

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Seven early 1870s; were denied degree despite passing all exams -- - Fortitude
persevered, received MDs from abroad and went on to - Perseverance

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practice medicine - Determinatio
- Established London Medical College - 1st ever college n
exclusively to teach medicine to women - Commitment

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- Courage of

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conviction
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Edison - Hired scientists smarter than him to help in inventions -- had - Self
a corporate research lab type model awareness
- Declared 'dumb' as a kid; went on to become a great inventor about
limitations
- Took steps to
deal w/ it
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Ammal Ammal Farhat, first female taxi driver in Saudi Arabia

Farhat
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Gandhi Anecdotes - Dedication to

- Withdrawal of NCM duty
- Brought women into the fold of indep movement - Commitment
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- Misappropriation of funds -- Gandhi & wife fasted for ₹2 got to service

from some businessman without any reason - Humanism
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- Bachche ko no sugar wali advice

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Ideals:
- Human beings as ends, not means
- Sarvodaya
- Swadharma of performing duty
- Work is worship
- Self sacrifice
- Satya and ahimsa
- Nari - Shakti
- Dignity of labour

Kadambini - 1st practicing woman doctor of India

Ganguly - 1st woman graduate of India
- 1st woman to address a session of the congress
Lou - Turned around IBM
Gerstner - Transformational leadership
- Introduced team bonuses and awards
Tulsi Gowda - Environmentalist - encyclopaedia of forest

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 Tulsi Gowda - Environmentalist - encyclopaedia of forest
- Padma Shree - 2021
Harekala - Padma Shree Awardee
Hajabba - Never received formal education but built primary school for
underprivileged
Fredy Hirsch - inmate in Nazi labour camp - Resilience
- organised school for children in Auschwitz concentration
camp, ran a discrete library
Anna - Ralegan Seedhi
Hazare - India Against Corruption + anshan
Michael - Michael Jordan - if he made a mistake during a match or - EI
Jordan didn't perform as expected, would stay after the match and - Fortitude
practice the shot for hours; rejected in Varsity teams, twice - Self

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rejected by NBA teams awareness

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- Learn from failures; come back stronger - Dedication
Nitish - said he'd only attend weddings where no dowry is involved Persuasion (?) as
Kumar a method of

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attitude change

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Ramnath - Dalit child to President of India - Effort
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Kovind
APJ Abdul - Invention of lightweight prosthetics
Kalam - Opposed govt on several issues of public welfare
- Lead by example
- Inspired to dream big
- Not to be afraid of failures
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- Don't care too much about what people think

- Unparalleled humility + deep compassion
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- Devotion, dedication and determination towards work

- As a leader, accept failures as own, but credit success to
team mates
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➢ PURA -- for holistic national dvpment

TV Anchor - Informed of her husband's death through her own news - Emotional
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Supreet bulletin; maintained professionalism through remainder of intelligence

Kaur her airtime
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Nadia - Work towards ending use of sexual violence as a weapon of

Murad war
- Even abducted, sold as a slave by ISIS
Dita Kraus - librarian of Auschwitz
Ann - Saved Xerox - Compassiona
Mulcahy - Had to layoff some workers, but didn't end retirement te leadership
pensions or reunion for retirees etc -- kept the values of the
company intact
- Tried to minimise negative impact on workers
Wangari - Wangari Mathai's Green Belt Movement
Mathai
Nelson - Challenged Apartheid regime of S Africa
Mandela - Non-violent struggle
PM Modi - Pradhan Sevak, not Pradhan Mantri
Naga Tribes - went from being hunters to major protectors of the Hornbill - Attitude
Bird - Environment

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 Bird - Environment
Daitari - Dug a canal through Gonalika mountains in Keonjhar district - Spirit of
Nayak to provide water to locals service
- selflessness
Henry - Awarded an engineer for 'extraordinary defiance' as he
Packard at defied, designed a monitor. When asked to stop, conducted
HP his own market survey, convinced seniors to put it into
production and then HP gained revenue through large sales
of the monitor
Geeta - Won Olympic medal in last round
Phogat
Rajendra - Gave up lucrative law practice for welfare of farmers,
Prasad workers

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Sam Pitroda

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Malavath - Youngest girl to scale the Everest
Purna

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PV - Brought about the NEP 1991

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Narasimha - Sent Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then a member of opposition, to
Rao represent India at Geneva
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Rukhmabai
Raut
Muthulaksh
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Wilma - Suffered polio and scarlet fever as a child; even needed - Motivation
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Rudolph braces to walk - EI Emotional

- Went on to win 3 track & field gold medals in 1960 Olympics Intelligence
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- Resilience
Chhavi - Harvard graduate returned to work as Sarpanch
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Rajavat
Sanjit - Padma Shree awardee
'Bunker' Roy - Trained rural women in technology - repairing hand pumps,
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solar engineers
- Founder of 'Barefoot College' SRWC Social Work and
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Research Centre
- Partnership w/ MEA to train 'solar Mamas' - women from
Africa, Afghanistan in solar engg
- Associated w/ Tilonia craft bazaar (Tilonia village, Ajmer)
E - Delhi metro became functional 3 years before the deadline
Sreedharan - Pre-fabricated technology to avoid delay due to litigation for
Chhatarpur farm
Arunima - 1st female amputee to scale the Mt Everest
Sinha
Kailash - Dedicated life for the cause of trafficked children
Satyarthi
Kalyan - Donated life's earnings for social upliftment -- library
Sundaram
Haimabati
Sen
Cornelia

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Sorabji
Lala - took responsibility of loss of lives under his tenure as railway
Bahadur minister & resigned even though not legally reqd
Shastri - 15 days parole - for ill daughter who dies in 3 days; returns
12 days early to jail
- Fair criticism of US intervention in Vietnam despite
dependence on PL480
- Returned illegally brought mangoes in jail despite being his
favourite fruit
Sherley - 'Lean In' - transformational leadership style - Empathy
Sandberg
Mahesh - Padma Shri recipient

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Sharma - Convinced tribes of Jhabua for rain water harvesting

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Socrates - Drank poison for upholding his ideas as true - Courage of
conviction
Hariet - Sacrificed youth fighting discrimination & apartheid

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Tessy - At ISRO - led successful launch of Agni Missile
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Thomas
HC Verma - Padma Shree
- Shiksha Sopan
M - While resignation - went to office by govt car, returned via - Integrity
Visveswarai private car
ya - For reading govt file - govt candles; vs personal candles for
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own books
Jack Welch - CEO of General Electric
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- 'nurturing leadership' style

Malala
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Yousafzai
Mohd - Conceived the idea of Self Help Groups in B'desh - Empathy
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Yunus - Compassion
Youthquake - New Zealand -- elected representatives below 30
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Louis - Olympian, POW in Japan for 2.5 yrs - - Resilience

Zamperini
Josef Auschwitz camp doctor - competent in jobs of exterminating
Mengele Jews
Matsuhiro 'The Bird' - competent Japanese officer -- tortured PoWs
Watanabe

Various Administrators

Who What they did Values portrayed Remark

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IAS Mir - Kannur became 1st plastic free district
Muhammad
Ali
Sanjeev Uncovered corruption at AIIMS

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 Sanjeev - Uncovered corruption at AIIMS
Chaturvedi
IAS OP directed funds for tribal education in S Bastar region
Choudhary
IFoS Anshu - Eco-villages in Odisha --
Pragyan Das - Muduligadia - 1st village in Odisha w/ self-sustainability + zero
waste + ODF 2019
IES Satyendra curbed corruption objectivity
Dubey
Justice Anil R - Recused himself from NJAC case constitutional bench because
Davi he was member of NJAC Committee
IAS Divya - Major societal reforms in Telangana

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Sucheta Dalal - Brought to light the Harshad Mehta Scam - Integrity
- Whistle-blower

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Naresh - Edu Sec, Raj - took suggestions from teachers, expedited
Gangwar delayed administrative work

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Randeep - AIIMS Director - first one to be vaccinated, to remove vaccine

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Guleria hesitancy
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IAS Pankaj Jain - Katni distt; Sent her daughter to Anganwadi centre
Ashok Khemka exposed DLF Land Grab
IAS Rahul - Ate at a Dalit widow's house to bring positive attitude
Kumar
IAS Saurav - Dantewada - Lunch with collector - counselling session
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Kumar
IAS Ake Ravi - Adopted a whole village ridden w/ violence; - Compassion
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Krishna - enrolled for organ donation

IAS Kundan - Unnayan Banka - interactive online-offline education method - Optimism
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Kumar using AI & Big Data - Innovative

- Attitude
- Commitment
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IAS Athar Amir - Awareness campaign against child marriage in Bhilwara district
Khan
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Justice
Khanwhilkar
IAS Tukaram - Works with integrity despite numerous transfers
Munde
IAS Ritu - Installed new electricity smart meters to tackle prevalent
Maheshwari electricity theft in Kanpur
IAS P Narhari - Building a barrier-free environment so PwD can move about
safely & independently (MP)
Durga Shakti
Nagpal
Prasanth Nair - Compassionate Kozhikode - Spirit of service
- Operation Sulaimani - Empathy
- 'Collector Bro'
Armstrong - People's road in Manipur
Pame

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IAS Asit Kr - DM Akola -- citizen's movement to clean river Morna & fined
Pandey himself when his office served tea in plastic cups
IPS Sanjukta - Addressed Bodo militancy areas - Empathy and
Parashar - (SP, Sonitpur District) who efficiently curbed insurgency, seized force
tons of illegal arms and ammunition and arrested dozens
involved in illegal arms racket
Nagendra - Working in rural dept of UP - uplifted Bawaria community from
Prasad poverty & prejudice -- considered habitual offenders
N Ravi - Interlocutor during NE Insurgency
DVP Chetan - In B'lore -- sang national anthem to allay anti-CAA protestors - EI
Singh Rathore - Innovation

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IAS Suman - made a schoolgirl DM for 1 day in Maha's Buldhana distt
Rawat

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IAS Umakant - Dewas Model - recognised by UN
Rao - Dug 16000 ponds to solve water crisis in Dewas district

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IAS G - Carried rice bags to flood hit remote areas - Spirit of service

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IAS Shashanka - My School My Farm - in Mizoram's Lawngtlai distt
- To address lack of fresh food supply, infra as key reasons for
dysfunctional anganwadis
IAS Awanish - Sangi Express = bike ambulance - 90% reduction in medical
Saran transport expense in tribal areas + better access to formal
healthcare facilities
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IAS Ashish - Utilised Indore municipality's own resources to reclaim land

Singh worth ₹400 crore by spending merely ₹10 crore
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TN Seshan - Electoral reforms - Will power

- EPIC - refused to conduct elections until this was implemented - Empathy
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despite political pressure - Compassion to

- Director (Transport Dept of Madras) - learnt driving + vulnerable
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functioning of engines etc to understand real plight of drivers sections

IAS - Collector of Umaria == got his office AC installed in maternity
Somavanshi ward
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IAS U Sagayam - Uploaded details of personal assets on the district website

Smita - IAS - youngest Chief Secretary in any state -- - Dedication
Sabharwal - 'people's officer' - Stakeholder
- Fund Your City campaign in Warangal -- appealed to residents engagement
to build infra of Naxal-affected areas --> construction of traffic
junctions, foot-over bridges
IAS Arif Shaikh - 'Chuppi-Tod' campaign -- during COVID 19 lockdown -- women
can lodge complaints against domestic abuse on WhatsApp
- 'Amcho Bastar, Amcho Police'
Krishna Teja - Floating ration shops to help flood affected areas in Kuttanad
IAS Poma - Walked rugged terrain to hear grievances of tribals
Tudu
IAS Devansh - NER Community Resource Mgmt Project
Yadav - Empowered local SHGS -- sanitary pads, bamboo furniture --
improved standard of living of locals

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 improved standard of living of locals
- State govt + NERCOMP -- mobilise people into cluster
farming -- economies of scale
IAS Raj Yadav - DAAV District Administration's Adopted Village Initiative -
adopted villages in Sikkim and transformed Rongbul into a
model village
Bhilwara - Using tech to curb corona outbreak
model
Dharnai village - Near Bodh Gaya
- India's first fully solar powered village
- Gram Panchayats + GreenPeace -> solar-powered micro-grid -
hh + commercial establishments
Payvihir - Maharashtra

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Panchayat - Converted 182ha of community lands into forests

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- Received Biodiversity Award of UNDP
- Naturals Melghat - brand -- to sell organic custard apples,
mangoes in Mumbai

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Sonia Meena Anuppur DM - against sand mafia in previous posting

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Ladakh -- park made of recycled plastic
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Hiware Bazaar - Inspired by Ralegan Sidhi
- water regeneration in Maha distt - from water stressed to
prosperity -- leadership of local Panchayats
Mawlynnong - Plastic banned, flowers on footpaths, bamboo dustbins, regular
Meghalaya volunteer sweepers, signboards against littering
- Cleanest village in India and Asia
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Piplantri - Plant 111 trees every time a girl + community work to ensure
Village, survival of trees
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Rajasthan - FD for girls + Affidavit for education

- Trees + aloevera to prevent termite infestation
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Personal Life
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Event Values portrayed Remarks

Follow traffic rules even when no traffic police
Extra lunch for financially weak classmates
Volunteer in teaching underprivileged students around my college campus
Report to office on time
No extra long lunch breaks

Miscellaneous

Event Values Remarks

portrayed
Permanent commission to women in Indian Army - Gender
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- Objectivit
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SBM has attitude change component -- naming & shaming, nigrani samitis, etc
Mysuru declaration - on Common Minimum Service Delivery by Panchayats
104 amendments of Constitution -> morality, ethics changes over time
Bhagidari campaign of Delhi Govt
#SelfieWithDaughter Campaign
Mittelstand - German MSME concept
- skilling & vocational
- youth education
- work ethics

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- MSME growth

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Nuclear programmes - Pragmatic
- Self defence - ideal idealism

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- Nuclear - practical approach

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➢ No first use policy: pragmatic idealism
Community Scorecards in Malawi, Maha, Andhra - Accounta
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- monitor services, empower citizens, improve accountability bility
- Probity
- Citizen
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- Objectivit
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Participatory planning and Policy formulation in Kerala, Brazil, Bangladesh - Democrati

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deliberati
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- Citizen
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empower
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- Decentrali
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Participatory Budget Analysis - DISHA in Gujarat - Democrati
sing
budget
process
- Accounta
bility
- Citizen
empower
ment
Laos Participatory Fund Mgmt - Transpare - WB
ncy funded
- Accounta
bility

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- Efficiency
Chile Compra - e-commerce public procurement system of Chile - Transpare
ncy
- Accounta
bility
- Efficiency
Space missions, ocean survey, taming of oceans through ships -- result of honest
industry
Jan sunwai, CAG Audit, Citizens' Charter, RTI
Singapore Model of fighting corruption - Lee Kwan Yew model
PM Garib Kalyan Yojana targeted few vulnerable sections -- farmers, women SHGs - Objectivit

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Any media advisory should come from social media handle 'from the office of DM'

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rather than with personal media account
ECI's plan to link Aadhaar w/ voter ID -- internet based, remote voting for migrants - Responsiv

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Indian Railways' Mission Satyanishtha - to ensure ethical practices
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Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat - Tolerance
India gives equal aid to disaster hit countries - Impartialit
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Appeasement of Hitler by UK -- consequentialism gone wrong
Capitalism -- disregards values of self-direction, ambition, equality and stimulation; - Ambition
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consequences: wage disparity, unsafe working conditions, lack of social security and - Equality
huge inequalities - Self
direction
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Slavery -- disregards - - Consent

- Pleasure
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- Autonomy
- Justice
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- Social
order
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Caste system -
Commodification/ objectification
Opportunism - hoarding, fake drugs & cosmetics, food, populist politics
Crisis management committee at District levels to fight COVID
Bombing of girls' school in Afghanistan - Rigidity of
morals
- Intoleranc
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Justifications for selfishness - Adam Smith's Invisible Hand; Ayn Rand's ethical egoism;
Darwin's survival of the fittest
ROAD principles - Responsibility, Ownership, Accountability, Discipline - Corporate
governanc
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Fit for Life initiative for TATA employees
Expulsion of Russia from G8 on accession of Crimea - Solidarity

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 Expulsion of Russia from G8 on accession of Crimea - Solidarity
- Moral
duty
CPGRAMS portal - public can lodge complaints to hold public servants accountable - Accounta
bility
Seeds of Peace summer camp - Israeli Palestine kids

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Direct example of trust building

- App by IAS officers for easier movement
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- IAS officer teaching in govt school as part time

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