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INTERVIEW ALUMNI WATCH GOVERNANCE @ WORK Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney Shri TN Chaturvedi Mongolian official to be Secretary, MeitY Chairman, IIPA Trained in IIPA Vol No. 01 Inaugural Issue July-September 2019 IIPABuilding Capacity for Governance DIGESTPrice : ` 100 GANDHIJI’S TALISMAN “I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test: Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 to January 30, 1948) A Tribute by employees of Indian Institute of Public Administration 2019 Hon'ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind with IIPA Chairman, Shri TN Chaturvedi Hon'ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind with IIPA Director, Shri SN Tripathi Hon’ble Vice President of India and President of IIPA, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu addressing the audience during the 64th AGM, 2018 Editor in Chief Surendra Nath Tripathi Contents Vol No. 01 Issue No. 03 July-September 2019 Editor 4 Editorial Amitabh Ranjan 5 Alumni Watch Joint Editor 6-7 Interview Meghna Chukkath 8-9 Upfront Photography 10-11 Lead Story Shiv Charan 12-15 Gallery Printed at 16-20 Institute Watch New United Process New Delhi-110028 21-23 News from Branches 24-27 Governance@Work Reprint or reproduction is permissible with due credit to 28-37 Opinion Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) 38-49 International Watch Published by 50 APPPA Alumni Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), Indraprastha Estate, Ring Road, 51 Tribute New Delhi- 110002 52 Quotes of the Month Phone +91-11-2346300 Fax +91-11-23702440, Email: [email protected], Kindly direct feedback/comments to Website: www.iipa.org.in [email protected] or Twitter: @iipa9 [email protected] Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi is an internationally reputed Research & Training Institution of Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Govt. of India. With a vast talented pool of in-house as well as guest faculty, IIPA has been spreading awareness in the area of Public Administration and Governance since its inception in 1954 through its widely acclaimed publications like IJPA, Lok Prashasan and Nagarlok as well as Trainings and Research. It has been imparting trainings to Central/ State Civil Servants, Defence Forces officers, Senior officers of PSUs and Foreign Government Officers, etc. in various aspects of contemporary and relevant fields of Public Administration and Governance. Along with that, it has been helping various Govt. Ministries/Departments/Agencies through its meticulously carried out Research Projects and Reports. July - September 2019 l IIPA Digest l 3 Editorial ndian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) takes immense pride in introducing the first edition Iof IIPA Digest, a magazine of its kind elucidating relevant current topics/ trends along with Institute’s latest news. IIPA Digest is editorially independent, meaning we set our own agenda. Our journalism is free from commercial bias and not influenced by anyone. No one edits our editor. No one steers our opinion. This is important as it enables us to give a voice to those less heard, challenge the powerful and hold them to account. It is what makes us different to so many others in the research and capacity building space at a time when factual, honest reporting is critical. The first chapter begins with the journey of Shri TN Chaturvedi, Chairman of the Institute and former Governor of Karnataka and Kerala, in which he talks about his initial association with IIPA and his perception. Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY was kind enough to provide inputs to Dr Charru Malhotra, Associate Professor of IIPA about the vision of his ministry. With 65 years of excellence in the service of the nation, we at IIPA are thankful to each one of you for extending endless support and efforts in the making of this Institute. IIPA truly appreciates hard work of faculty members and officers as well the supporting staff of the Institute and encourages them to excel. Under the ‘Newsmaker of the Month’, we celebrate our employees’ professional victory. The ‘Lead Story’ for this edition accentuates APPPA, a 10-month long customized training programme for senior officers of the All India and Central Services from the point of view of its preceding Programme Directors. Latest happenings about and around the Institute’s vision are featured under ‘Institute Watch’ and ‘News from the Branches’. Similarly, Governance@Work focuses on new government policies and schemes initiated by the Centre, State and the Local Governments. In the ‘Opinion’ section, Prof Govinda Bhattacharjee expressed his views on the need for reforming civil services in India. We also invited guest article from Professor Mohammed Asaduzzaman who along with his co-authors writes about building trust and partnership in local government with reference to Bangladesh. Recently, IIPA also witnessed the unveiling of the bronze Statue of Mahatma Gandhi by our esteemed IIPA Chairman, Shri TN Chaturvedi on July 1, 2019. This has been a landmark in the history of IIPA as the Statue has been built completely by the voluntary contributions from the IIPA employees. Also, it has been built by none other than the designer of ‘Statue of Unity’ in Gujarat, Padmabhushan Shri Ram Sutar. He was kind enough to grace the inaugural event despite his age of 94 years and deteriorating health. Hereupon, my dear colleagues and patrons of IIPA, we seek your steady support and feedback towards our minuscule effort in providing informative yet relevant information regarding the trends and latest happenings about IIPA and the Government of India. Surendra Nath Tripathi IIPA Director 4 l IIPA Digest l July - September 2019 SHRI T N CHatURVEDI ALUMNI WatcH IIPA had devoted people in the past and we hope that we will have the same devotion in the future as well: IIPA Chairman of programmes particularly related to public grievances, My Journey including water shortage, etc., and published several good got acquainted with publications and case studies. The general thinking of experts I Indian Institute of and trainers was to equip the administration of free India Public Administration which was facing problems and challenges of a new democracy when I was the Secretary where ultimately people could come together and work in one to the Chief Minister of direction. I remember when I came back to India I bought Rajasthan. At that time, several books related to public administration because there he received a letter from was hardly anything on the subject available in India except our first Prime Minister, some books on local government. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to establish an Institute for Public Administrators. (Later on, his letters were also published in three Shri TN Chaturvedi volumes as ‘Letters to Chairman, IIPA Chief Ministers’). Pandit Nehru’s letter indicated his keenness to involve Chief Ministers of states in the making of this Institute. In those letters, he mentioned several issues related to administration, public grievances, scarcity of water and food problems, public participation, etc. That’s how I first Shri TN Chaturvedi with Hon’ble President of learnt that an Institution of this kind has been conceived. India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind Since I have heard about it I was anxious to learn more about this arrangement. Later on, I enrolled as a member of IIPA IIPA today as I was very much interested in learning more about new IIPA has very much expanded. We had a devoted people in the improvements in public administration. past and we hope that we will have the same devotion in the I always liked reading about what was happening in other future as well. We have very few facilities but the work carried countries, particularly in the US and the UK. In the year 1959, out here is impactful. There is diversity in IIPA. However, I was given an opportunity to attend a six-month programme as a growing organisation it has to be much more proactive in what was called Economic Development Institute of the in anticipating the problems rather than only reacting and World Bank. There were people from 20-25 countries and I responding to what comes on its way. There should be more was the only representative from India. There I learnt about cumulative thinking as to what can be done, and the kind of various administrative innovations that were going on or programmes that could be undertaken. Now with various were being contemplated. During the same period, the World facilities such as computerisation and internet, research has Bank had launched a number of developmental programmes. been made easily possible. Through their findings from their American-Latin and African experiences, administrative support to infrastructure Vision for IIPA was considered as the weakest link in the governance. IIPA has a rich background with a bright future but to cash IIPA then on it or to avail of them depends on dedicated faculty and adequately guided direction. Meanwhile in India, some foreign academicians were visiting and giving lectures at various platforms. It was a short transition. Padma Vibhushan Shri Triloki Nath Chaturvedi, IAS At that time, it was not about governors Vs governed but it (Retd.) is the incumbent Chairman of Indian Institute was about people’s administration. That people should have ‘ ‘ of Public Administration.