CM Khattar presided over the meeting of the General Body of Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA)

SGT Times Reporter

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that to ensure good and effective governance, the State should focus on imparting such training to officers and employees to imbibe strong moral values in them and ensure that they are accountable. This will also assure that they are groomed into good human beings besides being a good officer.

Such training programmes will develop their functioning significantly, and they will also excel in the work assigned to them for the public’s welfare. Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) should prepare an outline for it and ensure that it is implemented in a planned manner.

The Chief Minister was presiding over the General Body of Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) meeting at Haryana Niwas on tuesday. “HIPA should organise training programmes in coordination with all the training centres related to various departments, institutions and other private sectors and record of all this should also be maintained. The training-related topics should also be updated as per the need of the hour,” he said.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that the concerned department should upload complete details on the HRMS portal regarding officers and employees’ training and keep its track. If some officers and employees have expertise in any subject, then other employees can be benefitted from it. He said that the State Government is working to ensure that departments are able to provide benefits of the various public welfare works to people. Thus, a transparent and seamless environment is being created in the departments. With such a change, the working efficiency of the officers and employees will be enhanced, which will directly benefit the public.  The Chief Minister also launched the booklet ‘Exploring Opportunities in Adversity’ published by HIPA. The booklet is about the circumstances of Covid-19 and lockdown.

Earlier, Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan informed about the infrastructural development of HIPA training programmes that HIPA is conducting under the State Training Policy.  He informed that training programmes are being run regularly by HIPA. In the year 2020-21, 18,800 training programmes were conducted by HIPA. Besides this, a study was conducted in relation to the government’s flagship schemes, and according to the views received from the experts, necessary changes were made. After this, the implementation of these schemes was made more transparent to strengthen the confidence of the citizens towards the government machinery, HIPA Director-General Surina Rajan also presented a detailed presentation about the training programmes and studies etc. Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister D.S. Dhesi, Additional Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary TVSN Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary Alok Nigam, Additional Chief Secretary Devender Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister V. Umashankar other senior officers were also present in the meeting.