The Academy of Administration, Bhopal has been conferred ISO 9001:2008 Certificate for outlining and quality training programmes as per international norms. The certificate was issued by Intertek Certification limited, UK on April 23, 2015.
The Academy is the apex training institute of Madhya Pradesh government. It holds training programmes for inculcating leadership and management skills and capacity building of officers of All-India Services and State Services.
Director General of the Academy Indraneel Shankar Dani and Director Shikha Dube have congratulated all colleagues of the academy. They called for maintaining the same quality norms in future as well. Madhya Pradesh Academy of Administration was established in 1966. Its name was lal Bahdaur Shastri Public Administration Institute at that time. It was shifted to existing premises in 1975 and named as RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration and Management. The academy was declared nodal agency for training to officers in 1987. Due to being apex training institute of the state government, it keeps holding training programmes for all state government departments. The academy is also imparting training to trainers of Madhya Pradesh and some other states under the aegis of Overseas Development Authority, UK and Government of India under ‘Training to Trainers’ and ‘Gender Planning’ programmes.
Government of India conferred National Excellence Award for training of trainers to the academy in 1994 and for total quality management in training in 1999. It has also received ISO 9001-2001 in year 2003-04.
With the help of state and Central governments, the academy has set up study centres on specific subjects, which impart training in concerning subjects, research and publicity material. These include skill development scheme of UNDP and Government of India under Right to Information, training projects for Union Personnel and Training Department, Madhya Pradesh Women’s Resource Centre of Madhya Pradesh Women and Child Development Department, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Government of India’s SETCOM Centre and Edusat SWAN Project, Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Department, Madhya Pradesh government’s World Trade Resource Centre, Madhya Pradesh Planning Department, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Knowledge Management and Good Governance, HUDCO Chair of New Delhi, Government of India’s National land Record Modernisation Project and State Education Management and Training Insitute (SEMAT) of Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Bhopal.