New Delhi: As many as 1800 civil servants of Bangladesh will be trained in India by 2025, the Personnel Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

The two-week 53rd capacity building programme in the field administration for the civil servants of Bangladesh was inaugurated on Tuesday at National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) at Mussoorie.

Prior to 2019, 1500 civil servants of Bangladesh have been imparted training at NCGG, the statement said.

“After successful completion of phase–I, capacity building of another 1,800 civil servants of Bangladesh have been taken up, which is planned to be completed by 2025,” the statement added.

Honing the best of 🇧🇩 bureaucrats at the @MEAIndia, @NCGG_GoI -led Mid Career Training Programme.

After training over 1,700 Bangladeshi Civil Servants, the physical training for over 1,800 other such officers has begun at Mussoorie 🇮🇳 with the 53rd batch starting today. pic.twitter.com/uaMgstSD2h

— India in Bangladesh (@ihcdhaka) October 10, 2022

This is the only institute in the country to have trained 1,727 field–level officers of Bangladesh Civil Service such as Assistant Commissioners, Upa-Zila Nirbhai Officers/ SDMs and Additional Deputy Commissioners.

It also imparted training to all the then active deputy commissioners of Bangladesh.

“It has been a decade since the capacity building programmes were initiated and thus many of the trainee officers have reached levels of Additional Secretary and Secretary in the Bangladesh Government resulting in synergy in governance between the two countries,” the ministry said.

NCGG was set up in 2014 by the Government of India as an apex institution in the country.

As per personnel ministry, the programme focuses on good governance, policy reforms, training and capacity building, and to also work as a think tank. It has taken up capacity building of civil servants of several foreign countries in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs.

It has imparted training to civil servants of 15 countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, Seychelles, Gambia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Laos, Vietnam, Bhutan, Myanmar and Cambodia, the statement said, adding that these training were found to be highly useful by the participating officers.

The programme aims at equipping civil servants with cutting edge knowledge, skills and tools to deliver and design effective public policy in an increasingly complex and inter-dependent world.

It is expected that this will achieve good governance and ultimately sustainable development apart from providing rich cross-country experience so that there is no need to reinvent the wheel, the statement said.

The Centre is sharing the initiatives being taken in the country such as e-governance, digital India, universalisation of public services, approach to sustainable development goals, usage of Aadhar in service delivery, public grievance redressal mechanism and disaster management with special reference to coastal region among other important areas, it said.

During the programme, the participants will also be taken to see various developmental works like Delhi Metro, Smart city, Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, Central Information Commission, Election Commission of India, etc, the statement added.