Every government employee in Haryana to receive training under new policy

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 14

With the Manohar Lal Khattar government deciding to implement the ‘Haryana State Training Policy 2020’, all state government employees are set to be imparted institutionalised training aimed at providing good governance to the common citizens.

The policy aimed at training every state government employee from Group A to Group D, including boards and corporation staff, will fulfil state's long-felt need of developing a professional and efficient civil service committed to inclusive growth and empowerment of citizens.

The Chief Secretary has already asked the departments to chalk out modalities for the implementation of the policy.

Under the policy, the Haryana Civil Service (HCS) officials will get six-month training, including three-month on-the-job training. Other Group A officers will also get six-month training.

One to three month training is envisaged for the Group B officers, while four-week training, including on-the-job training, is proposed for Group C and Group D employees.

A State Training Council, with Chief Secretary as chairperson, and having all administrative secretaries, DGP, Director General, Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA), directors of all government training institutes and vice-chancellors of state universities as members has already been constituted by the state government to advise it on matters relating to the training policy.

Meanwhile, the HIPA has been designated as the nodal agency for the implementation of the training policy.

Standard training modules on common topics such as the RTI Act, the rule of law, Right to Service Act, ethics in government and various flagship programmes of the state and central governments will be jointly developed by the training institutes.

The policy stresses that refresher training be ensured for every employee after five years. Moreover, the probation period of employees not completing training on time would be extended.

The training policy also makes provision of seeking help of yoga and spiritual instructors to instil positive attitude among trainees.

Training in foreign and other states is also proposed, keeping in mind the future needs of the state.

Meanwhile, the state government has asked different departments to make a provision of at least 2.5 per cent of their salary budget for training purposes.