Hyderabad, Dec 14 : Principal Secretary, Government of Kerala, Dr Raju Narayana Swamy has said that corruption has become the order of the day and asked the civil servants to fight against it to make sure the people get their due.

Replying to a question during an interactive session with the students of GITAM on the topic ‘A Bird’s_Eye View of New Frontiers of CSE’ organized by DISHA (a forum for competitive exams) and Computer Society of India (CSI) here on Tuesday, Dr Raju said, “In a system there will be obstacles. It is nature.

The need based and greed based corruption becomes the order of the day. It is a duty of a civil servant to fight against corruption to make sure the people get their due. If that is done, nothing can stop this country achieving a fruitful destination”, he said.

Dr Raju said, “Education does not begin with the learning of alphabets. It begins with a mother’s look, a father’s node of observation and literacy is not the end of the education nor even the beginning.

Education should be for humanism, for tolerance, for adventure of ideas, for search for truth. It doesn’t matter whether you are from engineering or arts stream. Education should make you a good human being”, the Principal Secretary said.

“Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you and there is nothing worth in this world that can come without the sweat of our brow.

We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that would carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit, which will recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to a rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny”, Dr Raju said by quoting Sir C V Raman.

Prof N Seetaramaiah, Associated Director, School of Technology, Prof S Phanikumar, HoD, CSE, Prof P Eswaraiah, Dr. Joseph Jayakar, Dr P.Narasimha Swamy, M Kiran Sastry and GITAMites took part in the interactive session.(UNI)