Chapter – 1 - lbsnaa

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Annual Report 2004
76 th Foundation Course for members of All India
Services and Central Services (Group-`A')
(6 th September, 2004 to 17 th December, 2004)
Duration 6 th September, 2004 to 17 th December, 2004
Course Coordinator Shri T.K. Manoj Kumar
Associate Coordinators Chiranjiv Choudhary
Ms. Kalpana Dube
Shri M.H. Khan
Ms. Vasudha Mishra
Rajiv Ranjan Mishra
Composition of Group Total : 298 including 3 Officers of the Royal
Bhutan Civil Service & 1 of the Royal Bhutan
Forest Service (Male : 245;
Female : 53)
3. The objectives are sought to be achieved through a time tested mix
of academic inputs and co-curricular activities. Regular lecture sessions are
given in the subjects of law, public administration, economics, political
concepts and constitutional theory, management and behavioural science,
history and culture and information technology. Officer trainees are also
given a fairly rigorous training in language. Trainees who do not have
sufficient proficiency in Hindi have to attend Hindi classes; officers of the All
India Services, the IAS, IPS and the IFS have to pick up the languages of
their state cadres. These sessions were taken by in house faculty, and
eminent practitioners who had been invited as guest faculty. To give a brief
idea , some of the speakers who had addressed the probationers include
names like H.E. the President of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Shri Shivraj
V. Patil, Hon. Union Home Minister, Shri L.K. Advani, Hon, Leader of the
Opposition, Lok Sabha, Shri Prakash Karat, Ms Barkha Dutt, the eminent
media personality, Shri Abid Hussain our former ambassador to the US, the