India has shown to world that show goes on smoothly despite crippling COVID crises: Jitendra Singh

 Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said India has shown world over past few months that show can go on smoothly despite crippling pandemic, an official statement said.

Addressing 61st foundation day celebration of Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), he said it is extremely heartening to learn that academy is w preparing for first and largest combined foundation course in se times. He assured full support for its success.

Singh, minister of state for Personnel, said academy had started conducting combined foundation course for over 20 civil services.

Earlier, this course included only Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and a few ors, he said.

"For first time, academy was conducting a combined foundation course by including over 20 different services from government sector,” Singh said.

He said, in future, an attempt will be made to furr enlarge spectrum of foundation course by including or services too.

This is in keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to come out of a state of silos and, instead, develop a common perspective and a common vision for all functionaries across services, minister said.

Singh said over last few months, India has shown to world that despite crippling coronavirus crisis, show goes on as smoothly as during pre-pandemic times, statement said.

He said that an era spanning six decades is a significant time in history of an institution and way academy has evolved over years bears ample testimony to sweat, toil and vision of those who have nurtured it, according to statement issued by Personnel Ministry. LBSNAA is premier training institute for civil servants.

Extending his felicitations to entire fraternity of academy under leadership of Sanjeev Chopra (LBSNAA Director), an erudite scholar and administrator, Singh congratulated academy for delivering out-of-box solutions much ahead of deadlines, designing all-inclusive training and pedagogical techniques, embracing state of art techlogy, making a social and ecological impact while leaving behind a set of best practices in every domain.

He expressed satisfaction that academy is continuously training pioneers to fight future challenges. Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s penchant for governance reforms, Singh recalled his address to civil servants last year at Kevadia in Gujarat, where he had said that “every effort made with impartial and selfless spirit is strong foundation of New India".

“To fulfil dream of a new India, 21st-century thinking and dreams are indispensable in our bureaucracy - a bureaucracy that is creative and constructive, imaginative and invative, proactive and polite, professional and progressive, energetic and enabling, efficient and effective, transparent and tech-enabled,” Modi had said.

minister also referred to prime minister's two-day visit to LBSNAA in 2017, where he had extensively interacted with officer trainees of 92nd Foundation Course and given m mantra of coming out of silos and focussing on me of constant learning. To fulfil this thought, he said, Union Cabinet recently passed Mission Karmayogi, a national programme for civil services capacity building (NPCSCB) which will go a long way in creating a new future-ready civil service for a new India.

Singh said it is an endeavour to incarnate civil services into a real Karmayogi who is creative, constructive, proactive and technically empowered to face future challenges. Recently, Union Cabinet also approved setting up of National Recruitment ncy (NRA) for ease of aspiring candidates, but Mission Karmayogi harps on constant learning after one has joined services, he added.

Singh said Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in April this year launched a learning platform (https://igot.gov.in) with an exclusive window for coronawarriors and within 10-15 days of its launch, more than 25 officers registered and got trained on platform. Referring to ar initiative of monitoring 700 districts for coronavirus manment, Singh said young collectors have played a stellar role in this with on-spot decision making.

He pointed out that one of reasons for this high-quality performance was that IAS officers who had served as assistant secretaries in government of India had gained from ir mentorship in Union government. Singh also expressed happiness about academy's initiative to spread mess of "our ancient herit of ayurveda, yoga and associated culture of living in harmony with nature".

minister released a publication- a compilation of articles on lesser-kwn heroes of freedom movement, statement said. At end of programme, employees of academy were felicitated for ir exemplary work, it added.

(Im Credits:PTI)