ABSTRACT
Civil service in India is merit-based and provides comprehensive training to civil servants deputed in the various public offices around the country. Because human development is the ultimate goal of modern administration, it becomes imperative to define moral requirements. The moral requirements of administrative ethics can have three ethical frameworks: individual cognitive, institutional functional, and societal normative. The public service ethics are eternally transcending different social conglomerations. The ethical meltdown has vitiated the public service ethos in India. All states of India are launching various electronic discussion forums that are generating public opinion to imbue ethics into the domain of public services. The ethical domain in public services faces some fundamental challenges from outside and within. The willingness to uphold ethics in public services is steadily on the rise, but the willingness to generate the needed momentum is lacking.
