Beginning today, the two-week 53rd Capacity Building programme in the Field Administration for the Civil Servants of Bangladesh has begun at Mussoorie’s National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG).

Prior to 2019, 1500 civil servants of Bangladesh have trained at the NCGG. After successful completion of phase–I, capacity building of another 1,800 civil servants of Bangladesh have been taken up, which is slated to be completed by 2025, an official statement said.

This is the only institute in the country to have trained 1,727 field–level officers of Bangladesh Civil Service. 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 statement said.

Set up in 2014, the NCGG, serves as an apex institution in the country, focusing on good governance, policy reforms, training and capacity building. It also works 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. Apart from Bangladesh, it has imparted training to civil servants of 15 countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, Seychelles, Gambia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Laos, Vietnam, Bhutan, Myanmar and Cambodia.

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