IIM Kashipur and Dr Tolia Uttarakhand Academy of Administration signed MoU to improve governance and development of Uttarakhand

Dr. Kulbhushan Balooni, Director, IIM Kashipur

Two prestigious institutes of Uttarakhand state, the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur and Dr. R S Tolia Uttarakhand Academy of Administration Nainital signed MoU to improve governance and development. The MoU signing ceremony was organized at the campus of Dr. R S Tolia Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital. At the ceremony, Sri Bhagawati Prasad Pandey, Director General of the academy, and Dr. Kulbhushan Balooni, Director, of the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur, represented their respective institutes and briefed them about their objectives and road ahead. The managerial knowledge to cater needs of good governance in dynamic democracy is the need of the hour and both institutes will make contributions towards its continuous improvement and development.
These two institutes will be working jointly towards capacity-building initiatives, undertaking research projects, exchanging faculty for mutually agreed programs, and working as training partners to conduct different courses in the field of public administration and good governance. Such initiatives will be implemented in the form of conducting training need assessments, designing course outlines as per training needs of civil servants, and organizing training programs as per mutual convenience.

“Mision Karmyogi” an initiative of the central government is being implemented in the state of Uttarakhand, where IIM Kashipur is playing a vital role. The institute has been discharged with three major responsibilities. First, carrying out a training needs assessment’ (TNA) of civil servants working with the Uttarakhand government. Second, developing training programs and learning modules based on training need assessment. Digitalization of all these training and learning modules, which will be integrated with iGOT platform of the national program for civil services capacity building (Karmyogi Bharat). The third responsibility is to provide faculty with courses/training programs in the management domain required for public administration and good governance.

This ceremony was attended by Sri V K Singh Deputy Director (Computer), Sri Sudhir Kumar Deputy Director, Sri S N Naganyal Deputy Director, Ms. Poonam Pathak Deputy Director (Economics), Sri Manoj Pandey In-charge Urban Development Cell and Smt. Meenu Pathak, Cell Coordinator of Uttarakhand Academy of Administration Nainital. Prof. Kunal, Principal investigator of the “Mission Karmyogi” project at IIM Kashipur was present with his team members Prof. Venkat Raghavan and Prof. Devjani Chatterjee.

IIM Kashipur can make a significant contribution towards policy development by providing inputs after analyzing data available with different departments/units of the Uttarakhand government.