The parliamentary committee has sought an expert panel to assess the civil services exam pattern and weather it allows a playing field for the rural and no English background candidates as compared to the English medium background candidates.
The panel is chaired by ruling party’s Sushil Modi has pressed on the need for an IAS training module and also examining the issue of IAS officers not filling their annual property returns. The Department of Personnel and Training has also reached out to the UPSC and LBSNAA about the panel’s suggestion.
LBSNAA has also started exploring a three week village training module under the district training phase, the parliamentary committee has been informed.
The panel has also recommended that LBSNAA ‘re-orient’ its training programme to make young civil servants ‘sensitive’ to the needs of the general public, especially the marginalised and the vulnerable.
It has suggested that the academy assign young officer trainees to tribal hamlets, remote villages, and areas with harsh terrains and difficult conditions for two-three weeks to enable them to get first-hand experience about the challenges faced by these groups of people on a day-to-day basis.
