India’s Jindal University to build capacity of Afghanistan’s civil service
Indian University to equip Afghan bureaucrats with management skills
India’s Jindal University to train Afghanistan’s civil servants
The
Jindal School of International Affairs and the Jindal Institute of
Leadership Development and Executive Education of O.P. Jindal
Global University have been awarded a prestigious and internationally
competitive contract from the Ministry of Finance, Islamic Republic of
Afghanistan, to conduct trainings for Afghan civil servants.
The university will be welcoming the first batch of senior Afghan civil servants,
who hold the ranks of Director General to Deputy Directors
in various Afghan government
ministries, in the next few weeks on its Sonipat campus. These civil
servants will be trained at Jindal University in topics like Leadership,
Human Resource Management, Law & Justice, Organisational
Change, Good Governance and Post-Conflict Institution Building.
The
contract awarded by the Afghan government credits Jindal University for
possessing “the required professional skills, personnel
and technical resources” to deliver a world class training experience
to the bureaucrats of Afghanistan.
Speaking
on this occasion, Mr. Ashraf Haidari, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy
of Afghanistan, stated that the current focus is to
strengthen civilian institutions in his country. He said “Although
the international community has invested in reconstruction of
Afghanistan, it has concentrated mostly on the military and security
sectors. Not enough has not been done to build the civilian
state structures, which are essential for a sustainable transition
towards self-reliance and peace.”
He welcomed and appreciated this capacity building training by O.P. Jindal Global University and expressed hope that it would
“fulfill a long-term and urgent need of Afghanistan.”
Commenting on why an Indian university has been chosen as a partner for capacity building and training, Mr. Haidari said
“With India, there is a cultural
affinity. In India too there are problems, but there are also
institutions that have succeeded. India is a democracy that learns from
its mistakes and we want to learn from that.”
Mr.
Haidari added that O.P. Jindal Global University’s pilot project in
training Afghan civil servants is a good start and that such
engagements should become longer and turn into degree programmes so
that the Afghan trainees become trainers themselves in the long run.
The Vice Chancellor of Jindal University, Professor C. Raj Kumar said:
“I believe that this landmark in
executive education will get JGU recognised as the leader in capacity
building for governments around the world. Our University has already
trained Indian Police Service, Indian Administrative Service and Indian
Revenue Service
officers in the past. Training foreign civil servants is taking up our
responsibilities to the global level. ”
Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, Dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs, added:
“Our prior experience of
working to support Afghan state institutions and the global nature of
our university were factors that led to us winning the contract. The
fact that India has a strategic relationship with Afghanistan and
recognition that JGU is
leading the higher education reforms in India by creating a truly
international learning environment were decisive in the decision of the
Afghan government to award the contract to us.”
Previously,
O.P. Jindal Global University’s Jindal Global Law School had conducted
training workshops in Kabul for the Afghan Ministry of Justice on topics
such as legislative drafting, legal research methodology and the
relevance of jurisprudence.
O.P.
Jindal Global University has also worked to strengthen the Afghan
government’s Ministry of Commerce and Industries on the themes
of lessons from the Competition Commission of India for Afghanistan;
comparative perspectives on market regulations; monopolies and cartels,
mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and abuse of market dominance by
powerful companies.
O.P.
Jindal Global University’s Jindal School of International Affairs is
presently helping launch postgraduate level degree programmes
in the field of international relations at the University of
Afghanistan in Kabul. This initiative is supported by officials from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Afghanistan.
Since
inception in 2009, O.P. Jindal Global University has conducted several
other training programmes for elite Indian bureaucrats
from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Police
Service (IPS), the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), the Indian Forest
Service (IFS) and officers from the Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air
Force, and various Indian state government officials.
The
capacity building capability and track record of O.P. Jindal Global
University is now being internationally recognised, with the award of
the contract
from Afghanistan. The impact of this training programme is expected to
deepen India’s role in nation building of its close partner country,
Afghanistan.
Earlier
this year, the Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University, Mr. Naveen
Jindal, had gifted an iconic national flag to the Government
of Afghanistan to create a sense of solidarity and unity among the
Afghan people and to cement the symbolic and materialistic linkages
between India and Afghanistan. This monumental flag over Wazir Akbar
Khan hill is visible across Kabul and has won widespread
international news coverage and praise.
With
the commencement of trainings for Afghan civil servants, O.P. Jindal
Global University is in a position to engage in vital knowledge
sharing that can eventually make Afghanistan a self-reliant, high
capacity state that can govern its people using cutting edge concepts of
management and public policy. This is an instance of South-South
cooperation between two developing countries, spearheaded
by a world class Indian university.
For more details on the Afghanistan Civil Service trainings at O.P. Jindal Global University, please contact:
Dr. Sreeram Chaulia
Professor & Dean, Jindal School of International Affairs
Ms. Kakul Rizvi
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