Two-day RTI programme for newly-appointed Asst Secretaries

All of the over 150 newly-appointed assistant secretaries will attend a two-day programme beginning Friday on Right to Information Act.
"All the Assistant Secretaries posted in various ministries or departments are informed that a two-day programme titled 'RTI: Outlook for the Future' is scheduled to be organised on October 16 and 17," an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training said.
All the assistant secretaries are requested to attend the programme on both the days, it added.
As many as 158 new IAS officers were in August appointed as assistant secretaries in different ministries here as part of a first-of-its-kind initiative by the Union government to groom these bureaucrats at the Centre before they move out to their respective state cadres.

These officers of the 2013-batch have started their career from Delhi, instead of cadre states allocated to them, on central deputation for three months beginning August 31.
It is for the first time that the Centre has created the new post of Assistant Secretary for the young officers.