looking to involve youth in its State machinery by inducting high-calibre youngsters into the office of Chief Minister, the State Government has began a fortnight long training camp for 25 Chief Minister Good Governance Associates (CMGGA) in the premises of Ashoka University at Sonepat.
These Associates, which include 14 men and 11 women, have been appointed by Haryana Government with an objective of ensuring good governance and transparency in the working of district administrations. As many as 21 of these 25 Associates would be posted in all the districts with the objective of implementation and monitoring of big programmes of Central and State Governments.
They would also serve as advisors regarding better implementation of these programmes and would report to Chief Minister’s Office.
Rakesh Gupta, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, while speaking after inaugurating the training camp, said that this was for the first time that any state is implementing such a programme under which the assistance of youth from top educational institutions such as IIM and IIT is being sought for administration.
He said that a three-tier selection process was adopted for the selection of these youth. The process began on March 10 and was completed on May 25.As many as 1,429 applications were received from 900 educational institutions from across the country for these posts. The Associates were selected after written examination and interview conducted by senior officers and educationists.
40 per cent of the selected Associates belonged to Haryana and 80 per cent of the all Associates have experience of working at different places. Among the Associates, 10 were from Haryana, three each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two each from Delhi and Karnataka and one each from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, informed Gupta.