Kolkata Feb 18 PTI Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has signed a Statement of Intent SOI with Capacity Building Commission Government of India for knowledge partnership with the aim to improve governments human resource management practices IIM-C said in a statement on FridayThe SOI was signed by Prof Uttam Kumar Sarkar Director of IIM Calcutta and Hemang Jani Secretary Capacity Building Commission New Delhi on February 17 the statement saidThe Capacity Building Commission CBC constituted in April 2021 has the mandate to improve the governments human resource management practices and augment the capacity of Indias 25 million civil servantsAs part of this initiative the commission entered into a knowledge partnership with IIM-C to structure a comprehensive strategy of innovative management development training for civil services at multiple levels the statement saidThe IIM-C Director said our collaboration with the Capacity Building Commission is another instance of our commitment to public good as an eminent institution of management education in the country Under the general framework of this SOI IIM Calcutta will lend its expertise to the design and execution of training programmes for countrys civil servants and support them through enhanced learning competencies in their efforts of effective governanceProf Bhaskar Chakrabarti Dean Academic congratulated the Capacity Building Commission for its efforts to broad-base on-the-job learning for countrys civil servants through knowledge partnershipHe said through this partnership we at IIM Calcutta wish to support CBC in its important national endeavour of creating well-trained human resources We look forward to working closely with CBC over the next two years to build a knowledge repository for the benefit of all civil servants The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has been recognised for its thought leadership through research and teaching modalities in the field of management and has a well-established reputation for delivering world-class training for practicing managers and administrators both in the private and public sectors PTI SUS RG RG

Kolkata Dec 18 PTI The West Bengal government and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Saturday said they have joined hands to impart leadership training to 1300 heads of schoolsThe beneficiaries would include heads of government and government-aided primary secondary and higher secondary-level educational institutes in batchesI am glad that the Paschim Banga Samagra Shiksha Mission PBSSM under the School Education Department has identified and taken the lead in focused intervention in education This is a timely and necessary step in the right direction said Director of IIM-Calcutta Prof Uttam Kumar Sarkar while inaugurating the first batch of the programmeWest Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu said the Leadership Development Programme will tap the latent leadership quality of the heads of these institutes and they will be the agents of change or the change provocateurs as once stated by famous linguist Noam Chomsky about the role of intellectualsThe training programme is scheduled to be organised in small batches in December 2021 and January 2022 PTI SUS RBT RBT

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