Re: ias training

["Yadhuvendra Mathur" <ym@lbsnaa.ernet.in>]

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:27:47 -0800

Dear Mr Sauvik,
Thaks a lot for the mail. The Attitudinal and overt Behaviour Change
continues
to be a major input nowadays. I along with a colleague, have been working on
the anti -privilege ethic for adoption , and do administer a battery of
tests(MBTI, FIRO B etc) , teach them a lot of PRA and ethics,values and
behavior.The effort are now centred around a  core group of like minded
officers,who could be also called in for being the role model.
The Academy would surely like you to visit us and the workshop seminar on
"liberty and civil society " of the Centre for Civil society could arrange
to
do this . The dates and duration need to be firmed up early, and shall be
grateful for an early reply.
1. Seminar format for 54 IAS probationers
2. The Academic In Mussoorie Course is from 21 Mar-16 July, and the Seminar
needs to be in this period
3. Another Course, the Foundation Course, in which there would be around 80
Trainees (from other Gr A services) would also be in Mussoorie in the same
period and we could include them also, but with very large groups
interaction
and discussions do not facilitate learning
4.Please let us have the fax and tel numbers so that one to onecommunication
oin phone is established
Regards
Yaduvendra Mathur
DyDir & Course Coordinator IAS Proffessional Course

Sauvik Chakraverti wrote:

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> re: training of the ias
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> they have been trained (and examinmed)in "knowledge'
> that is viewed with extreme suspicion today. they have
> been trained to see the people as the problem and the
> state (themselves) as the solution.
> this must change.
> modern public administration begins with public choice
> theory which begins by teaching the theory of the
> budget-maximising bureaucrat: niskanen's theory. ias
> officers, if trained to see themselves as the cause of
> big budget deficits and the diversion of public money
> from private goods to public goods will be forced to
> reform themselves.
> the beginning must be made by reforming their minds.
> i strongly suggest that, for a beginning, the centre
> for civil society should be asked to conduct one of
> its liberty and society seminars in the lbs national
> academy of administration. sanjeev sabhlok has been
> asked by me to recommend this to the lbsnaa.
> we can tailor the seminar to suit young ias recruits.
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