Civil Service Trainees' New Focus: Making Districts into Engines of Growth

The past few years have seen many changes in the training process for Civil Servants. This has been done to make sure that this training is aligned with Mission Karmayogi, India's capacity-building program. This Mission focuses on citizen citizen-centric approach and also highlights the need for different states to collaborate to solve global issues. Some of the changes in the training such as focusing on the requirements of hilly and northeastern states while also having increased discussions on interactions the trainees had with school officials, health care workers, students, and other government employees.

I do feel that these discussions are a great step as they lead to these civil servants understanding the needs of the community better. This helps civil servants to help their community in a better way and to increase the capacity of many people across India.

This increased focus on changing the behavior of civil servants is also helping build their capacity. A few other changes such as writing a mission statement which will then be reviewed 25 years later also show that the training academies such as Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie have started focusing more on skills that civil servants were lacking.

All these changes have helped make districts into engines of growth by focusing on assessing economic activities at a district level, identifying areas where growth is possible, and working on these spheres where there is scope for development.

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