• Legal and rational action: Civil servants must follow the law and rules to govern and guide.
• Responsibility and accountability: An administrator should hold himself morally responsible for his actions and should be willing to be held accountable.
• Commitment for work: According to swami Vivekananda ‘every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship.
• Ensuring excellence in work: An administrator would ensure the highest standard of quality in administrative decision and action.
• Responsiveness and resilience: He should adapt to environmental transformation and yet sustain the ethical norms of conduct.
• Principle of utilitarianism: An administrator should ensure the decision should lead to the greatest good of the greatest number.
• Maximum of Compassion: A civil servant without violating the prescribed law and rules would demonstrate compassion for the poor, the disabled and the weak.
• National interest: A civil servant should keep in view the impact of his action on his nation’s strength and prestige.
• Principle of justice: Administrators must observe principles of equality, equity, fairness, impartiality and objectivity.
• Transparency: Civil servants will make decisions in a transparent manner.
• Maximum of integrity: An administrator would undertake an administrative action on the basis of honesty and not use his power, position, and discretion to serve his personal interest.

If you want to touch upon thousands of lives and make significant changes in the society then this is the profession you must opt for. Besides, being the most respectable job there are a lot of perks one receives for being part of this organization which continues even though one gets retired. Money and high status is also attached to this field with a sense of satisfaction for contributing to the society.