IIM Shillong organized Management Development Programme for Arunachal Pradesh Civil Service Probationers.
IIM Shillong organized a 7 days Management Development Program for the Arunachal Pradesh Civil Services Officers at IIM Shillong Umsawli Campus. The training module has been initiated through an MoU signed between Government of Arunachal Pradesh and IIM Shillong.
The courses were designed on topics like How to meet the Challenges that comes before a Civil servant, the constitution as the rule book of Governance, Understanding the systems thinking approach, importance of Finance as a tool for development, Ways in converting challenges to opportunities, Communication is the key, Understanding Project Management, Self and leadership, Understanding the Strategic Risk management etc.
Dr. D P Goyal Director IIM Shillong in his session spoke on Unleashing the power of technology for better Governance. He mentioned about Digital India Campaign and the technology innovations that can be used in providing service to the citizens.
Dr Sanjay K Panda, Former Secretary Textile Ministry, Government of India spoke on promoting traditional strengths to ensure sustainable development, whereas Dr D Vijay Kumar D, Commissioner and Secretary Tourism Department, Meghalaya addressed the session on Tourism: a sustainable way to ensure development.
Dr Kumar highlighted the key areas including the infrastructure development in the tourism sector that can attract Indian tourists. Understanding on limitless data and how to manage data through Visualization tools were discussed in the session. The influence on Societal development need assessment, monitoring and evaluation has also been discussed in order to meet the diversified cross cultural sections of Arunachal Pradesh having many tribes and societies.”
Altogether 52 Officers are attending the training program
The program was inaugurated by Mr Ranjan Chatterjee -Ex Chief Secretary, Government of Meghalaya, Prof.D.P.Goyal-Director IIM Shillong ,Prof.Vibhas Amawate – MDP Chairman along with the Program Director(s) Prof. Rohit Joshi and Prof Sanjeeb Kakoty from IIM Shillong .
The Seven days training program is being facilitated by in house faculty and Guest Experts/Faculty namely:
- Shri M.S. Rao, IAS, Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Meghalaya and State Vigilance Commissioner.
- Dr Ranjan Chatterjee, Retired from the Central Government in October 2012 as Secretary to the Government of India.
- Dr. Sanjay K. Panda, Retired as Secretary, Textile Ministry, Government of India.
- Dr. D Vijay Kumar, Commissioner and Secretary, Tourism Department, Government of Meghalaya.
- Dr. Vijay Page, Retired as Chairman Managing Director of – Konkan Development Corporation, Govt. of Maharastra Undertaking.