A 40-member group of senior governmental administrative officials from neighbouring country Bangladesh who have been undergoing training at the lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA) in Mussoorie since November 7, visited Haridwar on Wednesday to get to understand the administrative working system and democratic systems.
The foreign administrative officials have been undergoing a training programme at the lBSNAA at Mussoorie. The programme which began on November 7 will be held till November 19. At a programme organised in the Haridwar collectorate meeting hall, the district chief development officer Meherban Singh Bisht, elaborated and informed in detail various aspects like the working of the offices of the Chief Development Officer while additional district magistrate (finance and revenue) lalit Narayan Mishra informed the visitors in detail about the working system of the collectorate. In addition to this, the Haridwar superintendent of police (city) Manikant Mishra informed the group of senior Bangladeshi government administrative officials about the working methodology of the police, responsibilities of the police departments and the various types of challenges being faced by the police. The additional district magistrate (administration) of Haridwar, Dr Abhishek Tripathi informed the visiting officials about the role of the revenue police and utility of the revenue police in detail. The Haridwar district magistrate Harbans Singh Chugh elaborated further on the administrative and democratic systems in implementation. Shedding light on some practical problems faced in the line of duty in the field, the District Magistrate said that patience and soft spoken attitude are two main methods which can prove helpful in solving considerably big problems. The District Magistrate further said that the administrative and historical background of the nations of India and Bangladesh are similar. Training programmes like the one currently underway, are useful in the sense that they will enable all the participating official to share knowledge and exchange their experiences in a manner which helps them bring about further improvement in the level of living of the common masses by effective execution of their tasks. Such training programmes will also help bring about an improvement in the work capabilities of the participating officials, said the District Magistrate.Referring to the various schemes being implemented across the nation by the Government of India, the District Magistrate laid special emphasis on the importance of the national health mission. He further gave out detailed information about the national health mission to the visiting foreign administrators, while adding that implementing a programme similar to the national health mission of India would also prove to be of considerable benefit to the people of that nation.
A representative of the visiting group of administrators from Bangladesh presented a memento to the Haridwar district magistrate on the occasion. The course coordinator of the lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration Dr MK Bhandari, joint magistrate of Roorkee Mayur Dikshit, city magistrate Haibharat Singh, sub divisional magistrate Manish Singh, district programme officer Mohit Chaudhary, district disaster management officer Meera Kaintura and other officials concerned were also among those present in the meeting.