Civil service trainees to focus on developing districts as engines of growth | India News
Over the past two years, civil servants working between services have noticed a change in their training techniques to accommodate Karmayogi’s Questgovernment capacity building program to reorient the bureaucracy at all levels to meet today’s requirements.
When the apprentices, known as officer cadets, arrived at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Public Administration (LBSNAA) In music, they are expected to meet with a grassroots health center, primary schools and interact with staff as well as medical staff and students, in addition to meeting several other focus groups such as youth unemployed and low-level government employees. Observations are then discussed during the first weeks of training with the aim of turning them into a “citizen civil servant” who understands the requirements, an official explained.
Practitioners are also now required to write their mission statement in an essay and include it in the DigiLocker that will be unlocked after 25 years, reminding them of the goals they have set for themselves and their accomplishments. surname.
“We are repurposing the entire operation to make civil services more responsive at the citizen level and respond more effectively in the VUCA environment (unstable, uncertain, complex and vague). It needs to start the game, change the strategy and learn how to apply,” LBSNAA director K Srinivas tell TOI. The focus is on behavior change.
Therefore, more emphasis should be placed on understanding the requirements of the hilly and northeastern states because urban issues—water supply, social inclusion, and governance—are very different from other parts of the land. country. ‘Parvat Malac‘, as it is referred to, is a core element of travel, which has always been an integral part of training in Mussoorie. Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Sikkim.
Likewise, there is now an effort to be more sensitive to geopolitical issues, especially in the vicinity, to which the State Department has been tasked. Details are shared before those on probation begin their border training.
This year, they were also sent to 75 identified villages, where they witnessed the implementation of key government programs and returned to provide input, which was shared with joint secretaries. from several ministries, and some of the findings are being used to improve proposal delivery. An official explained: “For the Modi government, Bhagidari is the main philosophy and officials need to learn how to work with stakeholders.
In addition to the behavior change, this module is also being reworked to address some of the skill gaps that apprentices may have. For example, LBSNAA co-organized a course on macroeconomics with the South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center, the International Monetary Fund’s cooperative joint venture with countries in the region.
An official said the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is now also on the course with the training academy looking to use the ‘DigTAG arena’ to use it to tackle the issue of social protection. society, health and education.