Select IAS, IPS, IFS etc. to be imparted training at IIM-Ahmedabad on Gandhian approach

THE Central government has included Mahatma Gandhi’s “approach for decision-making for the poor, rural and the marginalised”, as a part of the curriculum for in-service training imparted to IAS and other All India Service officers, and also to Group "A" service officers during their central deputation tenure. Gandhian approach will be taught for a week in IIM-Ahmedabad for select officers with work experience of 12 to 20 years, a DoPT letter to union securities, issued last week, said. In fact, the upcoming 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation is being planned across the globe as a year-long event beginning October 2, 2018. 

Here below are 15 subjects chosen for in-service training programmes, along with the names of the institutes where that training will be provided:

N Chandrababu Naidu addresses IAS, others at LBSNAA, Mussoorie; talks about Amaravati, happiness index

ANDHRA Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday talked about his state’s real-time governance model and methodology of governance that attaches importance to the people's happiness index. In fact, Andhra Pradesh is the second state in India after Madhya Pradesh to start a separate department on happiness. Naidu was addressing about 450 officers of All India Service and civil services at…

Countering Pak ISI to figure in Army-Civil Servants joint session

COUNTERING Pakistan's ISI network in Western Indian states is one of many topics that would come up for discussion in joint interactive sessions between Army officers and civil servants as a part of their mid-career development. The first of the series of such meets for the current financial year is scheduled to be held in Mumbai between August 21 and 23, where select officers of Indian armed forces will sit together with civil servants to discuss...

How mid-career IAS validated India's future: muddling along or falling apart?

India, Which Way?

AHEAD of the finalization of the 12th Plan document, the government in July this year came out with a report called “Scenarios: Shaping India’s Future” where three possible future scenarios were analyzed. Will India be “muddling along”, or “falling apart”, or will we witness what it calls Flotilla Advances where a flotilla of ships is well-coordinated with better communications systems among ships? In other words, the third scenario is the ideal future for India where federal governance system is well-oiled and it functions smoothly like the flotilla of a number of well-coordinated ships. As the report says these three scenarios are validated among others by mid-career IAS officers from across the country, who understand ground realities. Here are the three scenarios of India’s future: