The National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) completed its flagship capacity building programme (CBP) for 58th batch of civil servants of Bangladesh, which was attended by 45 officers of that country.

NCGG’s Capacity Building Programme is strengthening India’s bilateral relation with developing countries, Civil servants of Bangladesh are learning from citizen-centric public policies and good governance in India.

NCGG has trained 2055 officers of Bangladesh in good governance and field administration, an official statement said.

In partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs, the NCGG completed the training programme of the 58th batch of civil servants of Bangladesh.

Director General, NCGG, Bharat Lal in his address urged them to use technology for empowerment, accountability and public service delivery.

The programme focused on imparting new knowledge in the field of public policies, programmes, governance, use of technology and new skill sets to the officers to design and execute effective public policies and programmes to improve the quality of life of citizens.

In his valedictory address, Lal urged the officers to be responsive to the needs of people and stressed on the critical importance of redressing public grievances in a time-bound manner.

He appreciated the developmental partnership between the two countries and stated that this programme is an effort to empower the participants to new developmental paradigms and initiatives among other things.

He highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mantra of ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’ and urged the public servants to reduce the gap between the citizens and the government, and do away with the old colonial mindset.

He also pointed out that modern technology is a great enabler in bringing transparency and accountability. One should learn and adopt these modern tools of information and communication technology (ICT) to better serve the people.