India to train Maldives civil servants

India's leading civil services training institution NCGG will train 1,000 Maldives civil servants over the next five years, a Ministry of Personnel statement said.

The Ministry of External Affairs will bear all expenses of the training programme. A MoU for the capacity building of 1,000 Maldives civil servants was signed between the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) and Maldives Civil Services Commission during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Male on June 8, the statement said.

The agreement envisages that the NCGG will be the nodal institution for designing and implementation of customised training modules taking into account the requirements of the Maldives Civil Services Commission, said the statement.

Maldives will nominate suitable civil servants in the senior, executive and middle management levels as per agreed timelines.

K.V. Eapen, Director General, NCGG and Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances said that NCGG had trained 28 Maldives civil servants in April and this successful engagement encouraged the two countries to take the collaboration forward.

Eapen added that the NCGG has conducted similar training programmes for civil servants of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Gambia and the Maldives.