Kolkata, May 12 -- West Bengal's newly appointed Chief Secretary, Manoj Agarwal, issued a strong message to the state bureaucracy asking all the bureaucrats to return to professional and rule-based functioning, while assuring that the administration would work independently free from "political interference."Addressing secretaries of all state departments in his first high-level meeting at Nabanna after assuming office on Tuesday, the 1990-batch IAS officer stressed that officials must work with integrity and confidence.
"Work with your spine straight. If you work honestly, there is no need to bend," Agarwal told the officers, reminding them of their constitutional responsibilities as IAS officers.
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