Hyderabad: MCR HRDI conducts orientation camp for IAS officer trainees

Hyderabad: The IAS Officer Trainees of 2019 batch of Telangana Cadre, who reported to Government of Telangana on the completion of Phase-I of their training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, attended an orientation training programme conducted by Dr MCR HRD Institute.

In addition to B P Acharya, Director General of the Institute, A K Goel, former Advisor to Government of Telangana, K Rama Krishna Rao, Principal Secretary (Finance), Harpreet Singh, ADG of the Institute, and other eminent persons interacted with them and shared their experiences.

The focus of the training programme was to expose the IAS officer trainees to the unique features of Telangana orientation in terms of its economy, culture, land, people, innovative schemes, etc. Acharya advised that their attachment to the districts, with the District Collectors as their mentors, would enable them to understand the dynamics of administration at ground level in its true and total frame of reference. He called upon them to learn and perfect the art of man-management in order to improve their productivity.

The Government of Telangana has attached the eight IAS Officer Trainees as Assistant Collectors (Under Training), for a period of 50 weeks, to Khammam, Nagarkurnool, Kamareddy, Yadadri-Bhongir, Siddipet, Nalgonda, Karimnagar, and Rajanna-Sircilla districts.

The trainees, during their stay at Hyderabad, called on Somesh Kumar, Telangana State Chief Secretary, S Narsing Rao, (Principal Secretary) to CM, A Shanti Kumari, Spl Chief Secretary (Health), Vikas Raj, Principal Secretary (Political), Ronald Rose, Secretary (Finance), and others.

Of the eight trainees, two each belong to Telangana State and Uttarakhand and one each to AP, UP, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Seven IAS Officer Trainees belong to engineering stream of education, and only one comes from humanities background.