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TRAINING POLICY AND PROGRAMMES
8) Capacity Building related to The Right to Information Act, 2005
9) Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction (Training Component)
IN-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR IAS FOR THE YEAR 2008-2009
5.3 In-service training programmes for IAS officers consist of one-week training
programmes on a range of subjects. A total of twenty one- week training programmes
have been conducted at different National as well as the Autonomous Institutions
during the year.
5.4 In additiona to the above one-week training programmes, two special two-week
training programmes have also been conducted on Joint Civil Military Training
Programme on National Security, at LBSNAA, Mussoorie.
MID -CAREER TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR IAS OFFICERS
5.5 The Mid-Career Training (MCT) programme for IAS officers was introduced in the
year 2007. The MCT programme is organised every year in three different phases
viz. Phases-III, IV and V for the officers who have put in a service of 7-9 years, 14-
16 years and 26-28 years respectively.
5.6 Mid-Career Training Programme is a mandatory requirement for further promotion
at certain stages in an officer’s career. Participation in Mid-Career Training is a
necessary but not a sufficient condition for promotion.
5.7 So far two rounds of the MCT programmes have been completed during 2007 and
2008.
• 207 officers (1998, 1999, 2000 batches) have been trained in Phase III at Lal
Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie
by Duke Centre for International Development, Duke University, USA in collaboration
with LBSNAA. The participant officers were sent to Duke University
for a two-week exposure visit as a part of the programme.
• 215 officers (1991, 1995 batches) have been trained in Phase IV at LBSNAA,
Mussoorie by IIM Bangalore in partnership with Maxwell School of Governance,
Syracuse University, USA. The officers were sent to South Korea for
a two-week exposure visit as a part of the programme.
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