Staff Reporter:
The National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) completed its flagship capacity building program (CBP) for 58th batch of civil servants of Bangladesh, which was attended by 45 officers.
The program focused on imparting new knowledge in the field of public policies, programs, governance, use of technology and new skill sets to the officers to design and execute effective public policies and programs to improve the quality of life of citizens.
In his valedictory address, Bharat Lal, Director General, NCGG urged the officers to be responsive to the need of people and stressed on the critical importance of redressing public grievances in a time-bound manner.
He appreciated the developmental partnership between the two countries and stated that this program is an effort to empower the participants to new developmental paradigm and initiatives among other things.
He highlighted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mantra of ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’ and urged the public servants to reduce the gap between the citizens and the government, and do away with the old colonial mindset.
He also pointed out that modern technology is a great enabler in bringing transparency and accountabil-ity. One should learn and adopt these modern tools of information and communication technology (ICT) to better serve the people.
The 58th Course was conducted by Dr A. P. Singh, Course Coordinator with the help of Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, Associate Course Coordinator and supported by the capacity building team of NCGG.