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Policy Circulars 2004 - yashada

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edesignation of the members of Faculty at YASHADA with the perspective that the<br />

various Institutions thus recognized would function under the aegis of the Academy.<br />

YASHADA is recognised as one of the premier Administrative Training Institutes (ATI)<br />

in India by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India<br />

(Gol). The National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) considers YASHADA as an<br />

excellent example of the composite requirement for training in development<br />

administration that is very much essential in the management of Academic Staff<br />

College(s). The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Gol and various agencies<br />

such as HUDCO have supported the establishment of the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)<br />

at the Academy.<br />

Thematic and institutional separation within the Academy<br />

The thematic sectors for the (a) ATI component are being delivered by the Centre for<br />

Good Governance (CGG), (b) Rural concerns are being addressed by the Centre for Rural<br />

Studies (CRS), and (c) Urban concerns are enabled by the Centre for Urban Studies<br />

(CUS) at YASHADA.<br />

The Academy has also been able to position various Centres of Excellence to enable<br />

convergent themes of development administration that are common to Good Governance,<br />

Urban and Rural Development. These Centres include the Centre for Disaster<br />

Management (CDM), the Centre for Environmental and Development (CED), and the<br />

Centre for Information Technology (CIT)<br />

Financial support is received from various Ministries in the Government of India,<br />

including the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of Environment<br />

and Forests (MoEF) and the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) among others.<br />

Various projects are being funded by the Government of India and the Government of<br />

Maharashtra., as also by institutions such as the UNDP, the World Bank and Ford<br />

Foundation among others.<br />

Considerable support is available from Ministries / Organisations for capacity building,<br />

implementation of monitoring and evaluation programmes, institution building and<br />

extension programmes in strengthening empowerment, decentralisation and gender<br />

sensitization<br />

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