Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, Syed Muazzem Ali, today visited the city-based Administrative Staff College of India's historic Bella Vista campus and and interacted with its Chairman K Padmanabhaiah and faculty members.
"The most valuable asset of our country is manpower. We can properly utilise the manpower by imparting training at various levels at regular intervals. ASCI is imparting a good training module for Bangladesh's middle-level officers through a series of programmes," Ali said, according to a release from ASCI.
"We will jointly make efforts to promote and strengthen the fraternal ties between our two institutions and two countries," he said.
Padmanabhaiah, a 1961 batch IAS officer, said, "India and Bangladesh share a lot of common characteristics and Bangladesh is the leader in issues like micro finance. We can benefit from mutual cooperation."
ASCI Director-General Prof Paramita Dasgupta and the Programme Director Prof M Chandrasekhar and Bangladesh High Commission Counsellor Jamal Uddin Ahmed were also present.
ASCI had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Foreign Training Branch of the Ministry of Public Administration (MoPA), Government of the People's Republic Bangladesh, to train their civil services officers in nine batches.
"Out of the nine programmes, six are meant for the Deputy Secretary and equivalent level officers (middle-level, with 10-15 years of experience) and three are for the Joint Secretary and equivalent level officers (senior level, with 20 plus years of experience). We have already completed training for three batches so far," the Programme Director Prof M Chandrasekhar was quoted as saying in the release.
