New Delhi: The Public Service Commission (CTA) convened management development program on leadership skills at Indian Institute for Public Administration (IIPA) in New Delhi from 15 to 20 May 2023. A total of 13 Tibetan Settlement officers from northeast in India and Nepal took part in this training.
The program commenced with an inaugural address by the program director of IIPA, Dr. Surabhi Pandey, who welcomed distinguished dignitaries, CTA officials and participants to the one week training program, followed by general Rajesh Sahai’s presentation of IIPA memento to Chairman of Public Service Commission, Wangdu Tsering Pesur. Thereafter, training attendees were then informed about the objectives and need of the program, topic to be covered, methodology to be followed in key note address by the Chairman of Public Service Commission, Wangdu Tsering Pesur.
In his address, Chairman shared that this training was the extension of last year’s training of settlement officers and then spoke about the mission of leadership skill training that aims to build capacity of staff. He mentioned that as His Holiness the Dalai Lama always teaches that leadership must have genuine for the well being of others, he emphasised that this basic foundation or the structure is a pre-requisite quality of a leadership. He further urged participants to make best use of this training opportunity and it’s necessary that whatever they learned from this training must be implemented on ground level. Gen Rajesh Sahai, one of the prominent trainer of IIPA spoke about the importance of this leadership training and he emphasised that leadership first starts within, once you can lead yourself, you can lead others. Ceremony concluded by the word of thanks from Surabhi Pandey. The training program was funded by NDI, USAID.
-Report filed by Public Service Commission, CTA