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MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES & PENSIONS
CHAPTER - 13
GENDER ISSUES
13.1 The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India and United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) jointly implemented a Capacity Building
Project for Civil Services during the mid nineties. It had four broad objective, one
of them under the Output IV concerned issues of women in civil services.
13.2 The UNDP assisted Project aimed at providing a technical support to review career
development, placement and utilisation of women in higher public service, particularly
at decision making levels and setting up an institutional mechanism to examine
women’s issues in civil service regulations.
13.3 A number of activities were undertaken under this Project with regard to the Output
IV as detailed below:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
training of a core group of resource persons in the Graduate School, USDA,
Washington;
conducting a survey on gender and the civil services;
development of a curriculum for regional workshops by Administrative Training
Institutes (ATI);
conducting ten regional Workshops by nine ATIs;
final Workshop of Cadre Controlling Authorities of different Civil Services
belonging to the Government of India; and
establishment of a Focal Point in the DoPT
13.4 Based on the Project Report, a Focal Point was set up in DoPT at the Desk of DS/
ACC in 1998 which was transferred to Department of Administrative Reforms and
Public Grievances (AR&PG) for some time and is now located in AR Division. The
Focal Point was to operate through a network of nodal point to be located in various
ministries/departments (initially at GOI level and eventually in various state
governments).
13.5 The role of the Focal Point was defined in a Meeting convened by Secretary (P) on
6 May, 1998 as under:
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