Civil service is a service of public trust. Civil servants or bureaucrats adhering to ethics and morality-based value help in generating substantial public trust. The context in which Nepal’s civil service is being operated in a continuous change. The promulgation of new constitution and the full operation of 761 governments of Nepal have provided great opportunity for the civil servants or bureaucrats in serving the citizens as per the aspirations of the Constitution and values of Nepali civil service. Realizing the importance of value and its commitment with the aim of making civil service trustworthy, Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) initiated ‘value commitment program’ as one of the key programs of Basic Administration Training (BAT). The ‘value commitment program’ was first introduced in the 31st BAT in 2017. NASC engaged all the 31st BAT trainee officers collectively in generating the values on their own through participative process. By doing so, NASC believed that they will adhere to it throughout their professional and personal life. It has already been two years since the ‘value commitment program’ and the researchers believed it is the right time to assess whether they abide by the values which they collectively proposed and committed. Considering all these, this study tried to identify what do the government officials of 31st BAT value most in their profession at this point of time. By doing so, we analyzed whether any change has been occurred in their proposition at the beginning of service period and now. By employing mixed method of data collection, this study surveyed 126 officers from 31st BAT and data analysis has been done accordingly. Officers are found to be enthusiastic in adhering to the values in their work place and personal life and bringing changes at organizational and individual levels.
They tried to be positive towards any situations and problems and kept on delivering services to the service receivers. The research team found that use of information and communication technology has helped officers in being citizen friendly and transparent. However, we discovered that officers generally fear taking even reasonable risks and blame the socio-political landscape which restricted them being a change agent.