The Government will spend close to Rs 300 crore for training bureaucrats in India as well as abroad besides augmenting necessary infrastructure. The Union Budget 2022-23 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday allocated Rs 288 crore to the Personnel Ministry for the next fiscal for the purpose.
Besides this, an outlay of Rs 44.25 crore has been made under “administrative reforms and pensioners' scheme” for 2022-23, which includes provision for Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances scheme for modernisation of government offices, and pilot projects on administrative reforms which consists of promotion of e-governance, fostering of good governance, learning from success, sevottam etc.
Of the total allocation of Rs 288.14 crore for the next financial year, Rs 210.75 crore has been earmarked for upgradation of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie to a centre of excellence, augmentation of training facilities at the Delhi-based Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (ISTM) and the National Programme for Civil Services & Capacity Building -- Mission Karmayogi.
The LBSNAA and the ISTM conduct several training programmes for Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and all other levels of secretarial functionaries with exposure to latest rules, regulations and aptitude.
The Union Cabinet had in September 2020 given nod to Mission Karmayogi, billed the biggest bureaucratic reform initiative, aimed at capacity building to make government employees more "creative, proactive, professional and technology-enabled".
A total of Rs 77.39 crore has been provided to the ministry for 2022-23 to meet establishment-related expenditure of the ISTM, the LBSNAA and training division of DoPT.