By Staff Reporter
India will train 1,500 civil servants of Bangladesh by conducting mid-career capacity building programmes on good governance initiatives in the next five years, a top government official said on earlier this month.
A letter for extension of an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard by another five years will be exchanged soon, said V Srinivas, Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).
The consensus on extension of the existing agreement was reached during the visit of an Indian delegation — headed by Srinivas to Bangladesh in April.
“The two sides agreed on renewal of the existing MoU, which envisages capacity building programmes for 1,500 Bangladesh civil service officers at India’s National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) from 2025 to 2030,” Srinivas told PTI here.
The programmes for middle and senior management covers new paradigms of governance like project management, public procurement, blue economy and food processing, among others, he said.
He said that the MoU envisages 14 programmes for senior executives and 32 programmes for those at middle management.
The NCGG and the Bangladesh Ministry of Public Administration have collaborated for conducting capacity building programmes for Bangladeshi civil servants since 2014.
