Special Training Programme for Maldivian Civil Servants

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New Delhi : A Special Training Programme for Maldivian Civil Servants under the India-Maldives MoU on Training and Capacity Building Programme between the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) and the Maldives Civil Service Commission (CSC) will be conducted from September 16-28, 2019, at Mussoorie and Delihi. A 32- member Maldives delegation has arrived on the NCGG, campus at Mussoorie.

The inaugural session of the Special Training Programme for Maldivian Civil Servants commencing from September 16, 2019,  would be chaired by K  V  Eapen, Secretary DARPG, Ms. Fatimath Amira, Member, Civil Services Commission, and V Srinivas, Additional Secretary DARPG.

This would be followed by sessions on Public Policy and Governance, Ethics and Accountability and Redressal of Public Grievances, Motivation, Innovation, Sustainable Development Goals, Promoting Tourism, Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region, India – Maldives Relations along with visits to Unique Identification Authority, Passport Sewa Kendra, and Election Commission of India.

Senior policy makers from Government of India including  K V Eapen, Secretary DARPG, Sanjeev Chopra, Director, LBSNAA,  V Srinivas, Additional Secretary DARPG, Akhilesh Mishra, Director General ICCR, Padamvir Singh, former Director, LBSNAA, Siraj Hussain, former Secretary, Agriculture,  would be addressing the participants in the 2 week of training program. Dr Aly Shameem, Chairman, Civil Services Commission, Maldives, would address the valedictory session on September 28, 2019, according to a PIB release.

The Prime Minister of India, during his visit to Maldives in June 2019, had emphasised India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and assured India’s full support to Maldives in realising its aspirations for broad based socio-economic development and strengthening of democratic and independent institutions. One of the MoUs signed during the visit was between the National Center for Good Governance, India, and the Civil Services Commission, Maldives, which envisaged capacity building activities for 1,000 Civil Servants of Maldives at the National Centre for Good Governance over the next 5 years.

Under the MOU, 10 training programmes will be conducted from September 2019 to December 2020.  The first 3 training programs under the MOU would be held in 2019 (a) September 16-28, 2019 and November 18-30, 2019, for 60 officers of the middle management level (b) December 2-14, 2019 for 30 officers of top management level. A unique feature of the special training programme is that 70 percent of the delegates are women officials.