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Government officials, resource persons, and trainees at the training programme on July 23 at the ATI in Kohima.[/caption]
Dimapur, July 23 (EMN): Administrative personnel of the government will be learning at a training programme about ethics and moral values that they will come to exercise in the course of their work as administrators. That way, their work and contribution as administrators will benefit whom they serve.
A three-day training program on the topic ‘Ethics and values for public governance’ (sic) for government personnel has begun on July 23 at the Administrative Training Institute in Kohima.
The government publicity agency, the department of Information and Public Relations (IPR), issued updates on Tuesday about the programme.
The principal secretary for Personnel and Administrative Reforms Abhijit Sinha delivered the keynote address for the event. He said ethics and values aspects are important for all government servants and that every important decision that is taken should be guided by ethics.
Sinha urged the trainees and officers at the event to imbibe ‘ethical values in their everyday decision making’ processes so that the people will find benefits. Further, he challenged the trainees to ‘concentrate more on ethics and values’ when discharging their duties as government servants.
Further, Sinha reminded the trainees to reflect and ponder on their careers, expectation and achievements as to how far they have come as government servants. He urged them to set certain goals to bring changes in the society.
The officer hoped that the training programme will help them to learn about the importance of ethics and values in their personal life and professional work, the IPR reported.
Also, human resource consultant Kiran Gandhi gave a short speech. He said that the training would be different from the other training events as it will be related more about the trainee themselves than the posts they hold.
Gandhi said that the training event was to let the trainees rediscover ‘their real self’ and let them get in touch with the challenges and dreams of life by encouraging them to reflect on challenges.
Gandhi said also that the training programme was to let the trainees find their skills and gifts. That way, they can give a unique contribution to the people they serve. He encouraged them to ‘listen to their inner voice which is the guiding post of a person so that they live a meaningful life,’ the IPR reported.
Further, Additional Director Angelina Tajen said that the Nagaland chief secretary, Temjen Toy, had had taken the initiative for the three day training program for state civil service officers after realizing the need for training in said aspects of ethics.
If the programme is successful, such training will be introduced into the curriculum for training of the civil service probationers, Tajen said. She informed that the particular event will be of a different kind. It will be more of an activity-oriented event, the IPR reported.
The department of Personnel & Training approved the programme as a mid-career service project for all-India services. States like Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Assam and Madhya Pradesh have already adopted it for their state civil services besides including the program in the curriculum for induction training of probationers.
Some of the thematic topics that the training program will teach include the ways to discovering the ‘knowing versus living’ ethics gap, tracking one’s ethics; the concept of circle of concern and circle of influence; excellence in service delivery, and role of ethics; ‘stepping into the shoes of the common man’ and how he views the government; leadership, and their vision for Nagaland.
The resource persons for the training program are Kiran Gandhi, Goera Sangma, Miranda Das and Nikita Iralu, the updates stated. 17 trainees are part of the training program, the IPR informed.
