Civil Service Training In India

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 evidentTraining 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 associatedThrough 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   340 pp.…