Major problem of govt is officers away from realities: DoPT

The major problem in the government is that officers are quite away from the realities, a top government official said here today.
Inaugurating a conference of heads of different training institutes and a workshop for training managers of central ministries here, Secretary in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) Sanjay Kothari asked the civil servants to connect with rural India.
Noting that unless the mindset of the civil servants changes from the colonial era, Kothari said that the second round of administrative reforms will not be possible.
He stressed on a citizen centric training module for the various levels of government employees to make them responsive to the needs of the millions of the poor and needy people.

"Pointing out that the major problem in the government is that the officers are quite away from the realities, Kothari said the DoPT is trying to frame new induction and refresher training capsules in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and a lot of new initiatives are in the pipeline," a press release issued by personnel Ministry quoted him as having said.
In her address, Marina Walter, Deputy Country Director, UNDP said training is motivational and very important as we all need to continue to learn.
The one-day conference and workshop aims to wrap the various initiatives together for focused approach in capacity building efforts at DoPT as laid out in the National Training Policy, 2012.

On the relevance of human capital in the context of government of a democracy, the NTP-2012 suggests the DoPT to adopt a strategic view to human resource management of civil service.