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ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Tuesday termed the civil servants as backbone of the State who worked as a bridge between the common people and the government, as all policies and programmes were executed through them.
"Politicians will come and go every five years but you will be the permanent upholders of democracy," Pema Khandu told the 2020 batch of Arunachal Pradesh Civil Service (APCS) probationers while flagging-off their foundation training here.
Emphasizing the importance of training, he said that officers without training would be like a misguided missile and urged upon the young officers to sincerely attend each course of the four-month long foundation training.
"This is not a flagging off ceremony, this is the foundation laying ceremony of your career," he said. "You have the onus of ensuring every single paisa of development fund is being judiciously used for welfare of common people," the Chief Minister pointed out.
He said that the four-month foundation training was the first of its kind wherein the probationers would first undergo a course in IIM, Shillong, then at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, followed by a training programme at Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad and finally at the State Administrative Training Institute, Naharlagun.
A total of 57, including three differently-abled, officers of the 2020 APCS batch will be attending the training program.
Meanwhile, on the occasion, the newly-compiled web portal of the ATI was launched by the Chief Minister. The ceremony was also attended by Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein.
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