150 CBI sleuths participate in Art of Living workshop to “improve positivity and enhance synergy”

THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has recently been embroiled in an unprecedented controversy leading to the forced leave of two of its top officers, has organised a three-day workshop at its headquarters in Delhi to build synergy and positivity. The three-day workshop which is being conducted by the instructors of the Art of Living Foundation of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, enters…

Central government employees to attend a Medical Yoga workshop from Monday; Circular narrates benefits

COME July 7, Central government employees will gather in New Delhi’s Pandara Road to attend an unusual workshop on how to do Medical Yoga. One of the Central government agencies, Grih Kalyan Kendra is organizing this week-long workshop on Medical Yoga for the benefit of Central government employees and their families. Giving details of the benefits of Medical Yoga, a circular issued by the union ministry of personnel, public grievances and pension, says that…

Government brings IAS, IPS, railway officers etc. in one place for interaction

THE government for the first time has put it in black and white that “officers remain confined to the domains of their respective services” in the absence of regular interactions among different wings of civil services, forcing it to call 50 mid-career IAS, IPS, Indian Forest Service and Railway officers in one place for a week-long workshop. They will be engaged in group activities, listen to lectures to be delivered by eminent personalities and even watch a movie together. Come April 29…

Australian bureaucrats’ playing with Barbie dolls and finger paint creates row

Will You Indulge in Finger Painting?

THE Federal government in Australia adopted a unique method of encouraging bond among government employees. It hired a firm to help bureaucrats play finger-painting, Barbie dolls and balloon animals.

But that soon created a controversy. After Australian media highlighted how taxpayers’ money was wasted for indulging the bureaucrats, the opposition political leaders joined the chorus making it a big controversy in a relatively clean Australian government set-up. As was reported by leading newspaper Herald Sun, the department of human services admitted that spending $2660 on a laughter workshop was “a misuse of public money”. It was also decided that no laughter services would be hired in future to pamper bureaucrats.

The rationale behind organizing such workshops was to create ice-breakers for people to have an informal moment to get to know each other better, according to reports. 

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