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The Foundation Course equips fresh entrants with requisite skills,knowledge, and appropriate attitudes to shoulder responsibilities as publicadministrators; inculcates greater coordination among the different civilservices by building esprit de corps; and cultivates the spirit of cooperationand interdependence.(15 weeks)The IAS Professional Course Phase-I - imparts rigorous training to the IASOfficer Trainees in a wide range of subjects to enable them to handle variedassignments that the officer typically holds in the first decade of service.(26 weeks)State and District Training - exposes the officer trainees to the groundrealities and provides opportunities to apply the knowledge and skills acquiredduring the Professional Course to field situations.(52 weeks)The IAS Professional Course Phase-II- provides the Officer Trainees anopportunity to reflect on and synthesize the knowledge and skills acquiredduring the Phase-I and the experiential learning of District Training. It nowincludes a foreign visit component.(10 weeks)The entry level professional training in the Academy is meant to prepare you for thefirst decade of your career when you would function as Sub-Divisional Officers,Project Officers, District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Chief ExecutiveOfficers of Zilla Parishads, Municipal Commissioners, District Collectors, and insome cases in the State Directorates, Public Sector Undertakings and theSecretariat. At a more fundamental level, this training is meant to build a foundationand provide a perspective for the rest of your career in the civil services. It must benoted that the training scheme for the IAS has expanded well beyond the IASProfessional Course Phase-II and now involves Mid-career Training Programmes -Phases III, IV and V for officers of varied seniority.07