THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Administrative Reforms Commission has prescribed an 18 months comprehensive training and capacity-building programme scheme akin to that of the civil services for the fledgling Kerala Administrative Service personnel.
The commission’s second report has envisaged a three-fold programme that would ground the officer trainees in the history and political milieu of the country, embellish their administrative acumen, linguistic skills and also physical fitness.
Foundation course: This component is expected to equip a seamless transition from the academic world to the structured government system. The course design proposed is a blend of academic, outdoor, extra-curricular and co-curricular activities that would help the trainees imbibe a core set of values, skills and knowledge that would make the transition easy.
The commission has suggested public administration, management and behavioural sciences, law, fundamental economics for administrators, history, IT and Malayalam as the key components.
Public administration would lay accent on pertinent rules and regulations, challenges to service delivery, e-governance, business process re-engineering on government and such others. A management component has been included to empower the trainees with the analytical skill to address administrative issues. The commission has proposed the government to frame a structured training module with expert advice for imparting training in Malayalam.
The foundation course conceived as an in-house programme, also includes yoga and physical training too.
The second part focusses on giving them a tryst with State specific laws, statutory rules and regulations, rules of business, developmental initiatives and social interventions and such others. This would cover almost all departments including Forest, Revenue, Excise, Police, Registration and such others.
With a view to sharpening the communication skills of the trainees, the commission has proposed to impart training through language laboratories. They would be made to update themselves on the current trends in tourism, agriculture, industries and information technology too. Study tours have been proposed to familiarise the trainees with the historically important places, pubic and private sector undertakings and local bodies, among other places.
The third part lays thrust on administrative procedures linked to implementation of government policies and schemes. This also covers a field training and familiarisation of village and taluk offices and the collectorate. A familiarisation with the Legislature, judiciary, functioning of police stations local bodies and hospitals too has been proposed
The commission has recommended a number of training institutes, including Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad and Kerala Institute of Local Administration for training the officers.EOM/NJN
