Capacity Building Commission inviting Civil Servants and Citizens of India

Deadline: 31-Jul-22

The Capacity Building Commission (CBC) in collaboration with MyGov invite civil servants and citizens from around the country to share stories or anecdotes that illustrate the administrative history of their district or region or state, and their continued relevance to the local administrations of those regions.

Civil servants are invited to submit a photo, text, newspaper article, song, play or other historically or culturally significant artefact, along with a story explaining its significance to their local administrative history.

In its 1st edition, the report will be accompanied by a primer on capacity building reforms that will trace the history of reforms related to capacity building in India and seek to understand the relevance of these capacity building reforms today, and how they can be improved and appropriately implemented to enable India’s civil service to take on the challenges of 21st century governance. This section will also seek to bring together insights on administration and governance from across India’s social and political history.

Objectives

Informing policymakers, civil servants, citizens and civil society about the unique public administration styles that were practised across the country, and how these styles adapted to the local social, political, and geographic context.
Highlighting and popularising key, unique administrative innovations, especially those related to capacity building, within the civil service.
Providing a platform that provides a big-picture view of the improvements in India’s civil service and its ability to deliver public goods
Building a first-of-its-kind repository of records on local administration in India over the ages.

Eligibility Criteria

Applications are invited from citizens and all serving civil servants who are stationed in a state, district or local administration (i.e., zila panchayats, municipalities, etc). This includes:
- All citizens
- Civil Servants:
  - All persons employed in the civil services of the Central, State or local government.
  - Civil servants at any level (Group A, B, or C)
- Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS)
To be considered by the CBC, submissions must meet the following criteria:
- The submissions must relate to the history of the district/region in which the applicant is stationed.
- The submissions must be accompanied with an item of proof (this can include a photo, text, newspaper article, song, play or other historically or culturally significant artefact)