The Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Shri Sanjay Kothari has said that "going back to their roots" for officers, Mid-Career Training Programme (MCTP) should invariably include Field Visits to Villages / attachment with NGOs at their project sites. He was addressing the concluding cession of the Conference of Heads of Administrative Training Institutes (ATIs), Central Training Institutes (CTIs) and Cadre Controlling Authorities (CCAs) and a workshop for Training Managers of Central Ministries/Departments, here today.
Shri Sanjay Kothari said that behavioral skills including module on ethics in training programmes should be incorporated. He observed that the prevailing training capacities are inadequate to train all Class 2 & 3 employees in the government. The Secretary, DoPT said that the Ministry is devising a Management Information System that will include a pool of National Trainers and Institutes. He also said that MCTP should include foreign visit, but officers will have to submit Project Report that will form part of their APARs.