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Annual Report 2004
during his/her career. These are typically, courses of two weeks duration
and seek to impart knowledge and skills appropriate for each level.
Induction courses are conducted for officers on the select list of the states
or promoted to the IAS. The aim of the in-service courses is to update
levels of knowledge, skills and information and to provide opportunities for
exchange of ideas, views and experiences with people who have
developed expertise in different sectors of national development.
Considerable focus is given to new managerial thoughts, techniques, and
skills as well as to frontier areas of technology and its management. There
is an emphasis on giving the induction course participants an all-India
perspective. The officers are also taken on a tour of good practices in the
country to expose them to the pan India character of the service. In
addition, one-week vertical integration courses on issues such as Total
Quality Management, Ethics in Administration etc. are also conducted.
Joint Civil Militrary Course
The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
took preliminary steps to put greater emphasis on teaching of issues
related to National Secuirty after the publication of the Group of Ministers
recommendations on "Reforming the National Secuiryt System" (the GoM
Report) in February, 2001. The most audacious terroist challenge to our
democracy on December 13 last year re-emphasized the teaching of the
subject, "National Security", in various courses being run by the LBS NAA.
The Academy counducts attachment of IAS Probationers (now called
Officer-Trainees) with the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy during their
Winter Study Tour. This serves the purpose of better appreciation of the
role of the Armed Forces. Of late, modules on National Security are being
run for trainees at entry level and in other in-service training programmes
for the IAS. The modules is of about 2-4 hours duration.