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is public service, to ensure that we act as instruments of good governance
for the people of our country. This perspective was reiterated at various
points of the course. It would not be possible to take the trainees directly to
the people always in a course of this duration, but the Course , as in the
past, made provisions for a one week visit to selected villages across the
country, where OTs lived with the village community, conducted surveys
and were sensitized to the lives and aspirations of the people. This was
scheduled in the last quarter of the course, by which time OTs had
acquired a modicum of understanding of government functioning. They
could therefore make their own assessment of the effect of government
programmes on the people – what has been done and what remains to be
done.
7. This is the sum and substance of the 76 th Foundation Course. It is a
complex package of various inputs, both theoretical and attitudinal. It called
for academic excellence, in which trainees had been tested already by the
UPSC and found fit. But it also called for acquiring new behavioral patterns
and developing new insights into how fellow human beings behave. It also
called for developing an understanding of the process of governance and
developing an abiding affection for the people of this country.
A brief profile of the probationers of the 76 th Foundation Course is as
follows:
Service Break-up Table 1
SERVICE FEMALE MALE TOTAL
IAAS 1 0 1
IAS 18 70 88
ICCES 5 24 29
IFoS 2 20 22
IFS 2 14 16