J&K’s IMPARD signs MOU with ASCI for collaboration in skill development and e-governance

The Jammu and Kashmir Institute of Management, Public Administration and Rural Development (IMPARD)today signed an MoU with the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) here for collaboration between the two institutions in skill development and e-governance.

The agreement was signed at the ASCI campus here in the presence of J&K IMPARD Vice-Chairman and Director General Arun Kumar and ASCI Director General Paramita Dasgupta, ASCI stated in a release.

The initiative would open new opportunities for collaboration between the two institutions in the areas of public private partnership, skill development, e-governance and digital India, high impact corporate social responsibility, project management, financial management, de-centralized planning, disaster management, innovations in public services and ‘Swatch Bharat’, it said.

“ASCI is pleased to sign the MoU and we are willing to take up programs for the benefit of J&K officers,” Dasgupta said.

ASCI was established here in 1956 at the joint initiative of both the Union government and the industry as an independent and autonomous public purpose institution.

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