Civil Service Training In India
Contents: Introduction/Rakesh Hooja and K.K. Parnami. I. Training civil servants: 1. Multi level civil service training in India/Rakesh Hooja. 2. Civil Service Training in India: some issues/Ramesh K. Arora. 3. Role of Training in governance: an outsider’s view/R.N. Gupta. II. Training of All India and Central Services: 4. District Training for IAS probationers: emerging scenarios/V. Srinivas. 5. Training for the Indian Foreign service: issues and perspectives/Siran Mukerji. 6. A scheme for 52 week state and district training of Direct recruits of IAS/Rakesh Hooja. III. Training for change: 7. Management development and training: the Indian experience/R.K. Mishra. 8.Training for behavioural change/Udai Pareek. 9. Training for organizational change/Neeraj Gupta. 8. Training for behavioural change/Udai Pareek. 9. Training for organizational change/Neeraj Gupta. 10. Public policy and strategic management: the bridging role of training/Gitika Kapoor. 11. Management of change through human resource development in government: the case of V-Governance training of government of Gujarat/Anita Karwal. 12. Managing change in government through capacity building: intensive training across all levels in Kota District/P.K. Jain and C. Lobo. 13. Enhancing skills and capabilities in government through regular training programme/Sanjay Kothari and Kiran Lekha Walia. IV. Sector-specific training: 14. Training and rural development/G.S. Narwani. 15. Training for participatory irrigation management in India/Rakesh Hooja. 16. Training for, and expectations from district planners/Rakesh Hooja. 17. Role of state ATIs and SIRDs in Training for better district planning/Rakesh Hooja. 18. Role of and expectations from state ATIs and disaster management centers in the sphere of disaster management/Rakesh Hooja. 19. Creating city managers: a capacity building initiative/Rakesh Hooja. V. Aspects and components of training: 20. Identification of training needs vis a vis mission, goals and strategies/V.P. Mathur and Tanjul Saxena. 21. Designing a training programme: some important issues/Girish K. Srivastava. 22. Training evaluation: some key issues/T.K. Jain. 23. Training through distance education/Gireesh Pradhan. 24. E-learning: the key to future training/Neeraj Gupta. 25. Publishing a house journal in a training institutions/K.K. Parnami. VI. Appendices.
In recent years training has acquired increasing recognition not only as a strategy for achieving organizational goals but also as an important means of inducing, even sustaining, change. As a result, there is a growing realization among political leadership and administrators that training is also a major tool for effective administration. Indeed, as the pace of all-round change increases, the need for thoughtfully planned and designed training becomes more evident.
Training is relevant for all members of the civil services from the senior-most secretary to the junior-most clerk and peon. Nowadays, there is also much talk about the need to develop through training and related measures appropriate competencies amongst each individual working in government. Such competencies should be both generic and general which are related to the level and category of the post at which the individual is working, as also domain-specific and related to the specific schemes and programmes with whose formulation and implementation the employee is associated.
Through 25 papers, two appendices and an editors’ introduction, this book comprehensively traces the entire gamut of all issues pertinent to training of civil servants in India. It deserves to be read by all interested in good governance and development in India.
