CONTENTS - Administrative Training Institute

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ATI ATI has has been been as assigned as assigned
signed certain certain special special tasks by the Union Union and and the the State State Governments:
Governments:-
Governments:
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1. STATE TATE IMPLEMENTING
MPLEMENTING AGENCY GENCY
GENCY for for the the Right Right to to Information Information Act, Act, 2005 2005 (UNDP (UNDP sponsored)
sponsored)
Under the UNDP sponsored Project “Capacity Building for Access to Information with special
reference to RTI Act, 2005”, Paschim Medinipur and Malda have been selected as two pilot
districts of West Bengal. ATI as the State Implementing Agency (SIA) for the Project is
working upon all the major project components, viz., Training and Capacity Building, Research
and Documentation, Mass Awareness Campaign etc. with special thrust in these two districts
and due emphasis in the remaining districts.
One short film of 16 minutes duration on the RTI Act has been prepared for Mass
Awareness campaign mainly at the grassroots level.
2. STATE NODAL AGENCY under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP)
ATI was designated the State Nodal Agency (SNO) under NeGP which would be
responsible for taking initiative and implementing capacity building by providing services like
selection, contracting of external agencies/persons/services and administrative support to the
state level e-mission team (SeMT) and the departmental project e-Mission teams (PeMT).
ATI has been selected as the nodal organization for imparting training on e-
Governance to government officials in the selected departments under Mission Mode Projects.
As a pilot, Burdwan district has been selected.
3. 3. Centre Centre for for Good Good Governance
Governance
ATI has been designated to act as ‘Centre for Good Governance’ for West Bengal. It
is conducting various training programmes for promoting good governance through different
training modules e.g. ‘Values in Administration’, ‘Right to Information’, ‘Citizen’s Charter’ etc.
All the faculty members have been trained by the pathfinder of ‘Values in Administration’,
Dr.S.K. Chakraborty, the founder of the Management Centre of Human Values of the Indian
Institute of Management, Kolkata.
The Government of West Bengal (GoWB) has formed a high level Administrative
Reforms Committee (ARC), chaired by the Chief Secretary, to improve governance and
systemic constraints in order to deliver effective services, strengthen accountability and reduce
poverty. DFID plans to support this initiative through a 3 year governance programme -
namely Institutional Reforms for Improving Service (IRIS) - that aims to benefit the poorest