Chandigarh, January 19 - Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal has directed the officers to prepare a comprehensive program to train government employees in accordance with information technology through Haryana Institute of Public Administration.
He directed all the concerned departments to prepare a report of the training programme according to their requirements, which should be sent within a month to the Chief Secretary office.
The Chief Minister was presiding over a review meeting regarding the Vision and Work Plan of the Haryana Public Administration Institute (HIPA) here last evening.
Chief Secretary, Mrs. Keshni Anand Arora, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. Rajesh Khullar, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr V. Umashankar, Principal OSD, Mr. Neeraj Daftuar, Training Director, Mr. Nitin Yadav, Director General of Police, Mr. Manoj Yadava were also present in the meeting.
The Director-General, HIPA, Mrs. Surina Rajan gave a presentation on the vision and work plan of the institute.
The Chief Minister was appraised that HIPA will sign an MoU with National and International Institutes and invite to give lectures during training from Niti Aayog, Universities, Engineering colleges and Institutes and institutes of Yoga and Meditation. An audio-video library of these special lectures will be created. HIPA will also be developed as an integrated institution.
It was informed that HIPA has also proposed the first Joint Foundation course for Category-I officers working in the State, which will include 166 officers of Haryana Civil Services Executive Branch and Allied Services.
Apart from this, it will be mandatory that the data of the officers will be linked to the Human Resource Management System (HRMS) for training in HIPA. HIPA has designed a comprehensive training programme for the same.
The Chief Minister directed to include 'Pride of My State' chapter in the course.
The Chief Minister said that selecting people on merit basis is the topmost priority of the State Government and following the same motto, till now the recruitments made by the Government have been done on a merit basis, which is also lauded by other states.
It was also informed in the meeting that data of a total of 2,67,232 officers and employees has been linked under HRMS, including 6,318 of Category-A, 37,774 of Category-B, 1,78,189 of Category-C and 44, 951 of Category-D.
The Chief Minister appreciated the presentation given by HIPA and said training will certainly infuse commitment of duty and moral values among them. He said that there will be no shortage of budget for HIPA.