Capacity Building Commission to organise 'Sadhana Saptah' to further strengthen governance capabilities

New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) The Capacity Building Commission (CBC) will organise a 'Sadhana Saptah' next month to further strengthen governance capabilities across central and state government departments, officials said on Thursday.
     The event is conceived as a theme-focused and sector-anchored exercise to strengthen governance capability across ministries, departments and states, they said.
     The Sadhana (strengthening adaptive development and human aptitude for national advancement) Saptah, will be held from April 2-8, the officials said.
     The event is structured on three themes -- technology, tradition and tangible outcomes.
     Under the technology theme, it will discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies transforming the sector. Focus areas may include sector-specific AI use cases, regulatory readiness and digital public infrastructure integration, the officials said.
     Indian Knowledge Systems, Seva Bhav and Indigenous innovations will be another focus area of the Saptah.
     It will deliberate on citizen impact tracking, clear articulation of priority sectoral outcomes for citizens and data driven decision making as part of the "tangible outcome" theme.
     The CBC is the custodian of the 'Mission Karmayogi' framework to drive civil service reforms through competency based capacity building.
     The National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building or Mission Karmayogi was launched in September 2020 to foster the civil servants' capacity building.
     The Sadhana Saptah will also mark the launch of a few of the key initiatives aimed at further strengthening the capacity-building ecosystem under Mission Karmayogi.
     It includes Karmayogi Kshamata Connect to capacitate over 70 per cent of frontline functionaries across the Centre and states/UTs through a structured package of domain, behavioural and functional learning modules.
     As part of Sadhana Saptah, a half-day programme on capacity building for Viksit Panchayat will be organised to underscore the importance of learning and competency-based capacity building at the grassroots level for strengthening Panchayati Raj institutions.
     As part of its efforts to strengthen leadership capacity within the scientific ecosystem, the CBC has developed a specialised three-day programme for the administrative capacity building of scientists, the officials said.
     The programme focuses on enabling this shift by building competencies in governance, decision-making, and institutional leadership, and adopts a blended approach combining context-setting, experiential learning, and peer exchange, supported by curated pre and post-learning pathways for sustained impact, they said.
     The first batch of the programme will be conducted from April 27-29, at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, the officials added.

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