New Delhi: Citing importance of Knowledge-Skill and Attitude (KSA) in
employees for citizen-centric governance, the government today directed all
ministries to hold in-house weekly Training of their Personnel “immediately” to help them perform
their work efficiently.
The move comes following a
direction from Prime MinisterNarendra
Modi, who
has emphasised on providing regular training ofgovernment employees during a
presentation made by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
The objective of the hour-long in-house weekly training is to provide training to all
employees of the ministry or department on a regular basis without dislocating
their work, the Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT)
said in its Office Memorandum F.NO.T-17/A/2014-CTP(CSS) dated October 17, 2014.
At present, the senior civil
servants are exposed to a number of training programmes at different stages
such as induction training, mandatory mid-career training, in-service training,
etc.
“These trainings are mostly organised service wise and within services at same level. Perhaps there is no
training being imparted at ministry or department level covering all its Group B and C employees on same subject,” the order
said.
The department would be free to
choose training topics as per their requirements and utilise in-house expertise
for imparting training.
Following the Prime Minister’s
directive, the DoPT already started in-house weekly training for its employees.
“All officials from LDC up to Under Secretaries will be nominated in batches of 45-50
and the training will be conducted every Wednesday from 10 am to 11 am.
“You or your representative can attend this training after
giving prior intimation, so that your ministry or department is familiarised to
start in-house training ,” said the DoPT order sent to secretaries of all
central government ministries and departments.
Accordingly, all ministries or
departments are requested to start hourly in-house weekly training for their
employees up to Under Secretaries immediately, it said.
