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district level and below, along with people’s representatives North 24 Parganas district has been
selected as the Nodal District. Training Needs Analyses for ARD and Agriculture Departments
have been completed. Two training films have been developed by Agriculture Department on
Rice Plantation and on Creation of Vermicompost.
8. 8. Administrative Administrative Reforms Reforms Reforms Commission
Commission
The Second Administrative Reforms Commission, Govt. of India, entrusted ATI with
the study on “Steps to ensure Effective Administration at the State Level”.
The ATI entrusted the National Productivity Council with a project to recommend the
revised staffing pattern, infrastructure and process re-engineering required in the offices of the
Divisional Commissioner, the District Magistrate, the SDO and the BDO to meet the current
and future needs.
PROGAMMES
Training programmes are offered in the following thrust areas:-
1. Induction Programmes are conducted for the new recruits to government service and
officials promoted to higher cadres such as IAS, WBCS (Exe.), WBPS, WBA&AS.
The programmes give the participants an overview of the administrative environment,
the policies and programmes with which they are concerned, the administrative and
legal structures and processes relating to their work and a broad understanding of the
strategies for effective public service and good governance. Exposure to computers and
sensitisation to gender issues, human rights and values in administration form part of
the modules.
2. In-service Programmes are aimed at improving the functional competence of the
participants from various departments and directorates of the Govt. The courses mainly
cover the plans and programmes of the departments as well as administrative and
financial rules and procedures relevant to the tasks performed by the participants.
Separate functional courses have been scheduled exclusively for WBCS (Executive)
cadre officers at different levels of seniority. Now these have been developed for
enhancing the effectiveness of Block Development Officers, Sub-divisional Officers and
Additional District Magistrates.
3. Public Administration: Training courses and workshops are held on Financial and
Administrative procedures in Government, Departmental Proceedings and Court
Procedure etc. To enhance the professional credentials of new recruits to the WBCS
(Executive) cadre, an agreement has been reached with the Netaji Subhas Open