Team Herald
PANJIM: Marred by criticism over frequent extensions granted to retired officials, the government now intends to put an end to this by training and building up a workforce to foster excellence at all levels of governance.
The State government has drafted a ‘Goa State Training Policy 2016’ with an aim to achieve excellence in administration and to make government efficient, effective and responsible. Elected representatives and government officials would be imparted training in excellence.
Additional Secretary (personnel) Yetindra Maralkar issued a notification releasing the policy, on the lines of the National Training Policy, 1996. Under this policy the government has developed Goa Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (GIPARD) as the Apex State Administrative Training Institute (ATI) for training and capacity building of the State’s employees and elected representatives.
“The main aim of the policy is to achieve excellence in the 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,” the policy documents reads.
“In order to achieve this objective, it is felt necessary that the State shall have its own training policy,” it added.
The mission is to develop a training framework for the workforce in institutions of governance, to instill values, attitude and competencies to empower them to discharge their duties efficiently and effectively to the citizens through a systematic process of training.
As per the government’s past reply, 123 senior government officials were granted extensions and reappointed on contract basis post retirement in the last two-and-a-half years (June 2015).
