TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: Legislators and government servants may have to trudge back to school from financial year 2014-15 if the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) proposed by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in his budget materializes.
Parrikar also proposed framing of Goa State Training Policy and said that elected representatives and civil servants will be trained at the ATI on government policies and how to work in tandem with the bureaucracy.
“In order to achieve excellence in administration and to make government efficient, effective, responsible, responsive, competent, forward looking and technology savvy, there is need to impart suitable training to employees at all levels,” Parrikar said in his speech.
Chief Minister informed the House that government has already signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Yeshawantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune.
“Government also proposed to impart training to elected representatives and officials of local self government from city to village level through Rambhau Mahalgi Prabhodini, Maharashtra ” he said.
State has 40 MLAs and over 50,000 government employees.
Parrikar announced that in order to make the bureaucracy proactive and for management, government propose to induce lateral entry in the administration by engaging experienced trained personnel from Finance, IT, administration and other for short and medium term deployment in the relevant department.
Government has also proposed a comprehensive recruitment policy to streamline the process of recruitment across the departments.
