Vijayawada: The AP Human Resources Development Institute (APHRDI) will develop a state-of-the-art training complex at Kondapavuluru village near Gannavaram of Krishna district, according to director general of the institute D. Chakrapani. The government has allotted 100 acres of land to the institute for this purpose. This institute is meeting the training and capacity-building requirements of the staff of government departments, public undertakings and other public functionaries. The training encompasses orientation, skill development, physical and mental fitness and ownership on the programmes of the government.
The government wants the APHRDI to emerge as a National Institute of Excellence duly focusing on modern management techniques as also the right mix of service and self-sufficiency. Regional centres will also be set up at Visakhapatnam and Tirupati shortly. In the last one year, the institute has organised 142 training programmes in Bapatla and trained a total of 13,000 employees belonging to different government departments from all over the 13 districts in the state, the director general said. The institute will organise Civil Services Day in a big way on April 20 and 21 in Bapatla.
The former Governor of Reserve Bank Of India Y.V. Reddy, former AP High Cou-rt judge Justice P.S. Nara-yana, OSD to National Sec-urity Adviser Jayant Sinha, Kurnool SP Ravi Krishna, director of Karnataka Lok Ayukta R. Balasubramanian and other renowned speakers will participate, he added. Government of India has taken a decision to observe April 21 every year as Civil Services Day as an occasion for the civil servants to rededicate themselves to the cause of citizens and renew their commitment to public service and excellence in work. It was on this day in 1947 that Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel addressed the first batch of civil servants in independent India at the Metcalf House where he referred to civil servants as the 'steel frame of India'.
