The Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) at Savar is the main centre that trains new members of the civil services. But the standard of this body has deteriorated over the years. The trainers themselves are considered as not sufficiently resourceful to train well. Many of them have been actually dumped from the executive services either for incompetence or as punishment.
Again, those who were recruited as the centre's own manpower, were inducted more often than not for connections. Both ways, the BPATC remains improperly equipped with a poor manpower base to perform its task well. As a result, governance of the country suffers.
BPATC needs restructuring and at the centre of such restructuring should be appointment of persons of proper background and competence as the trainers. Besides, teaching of morality and service to people should be important parts of the training programmes so that the new members in the civil services would go to their first posts with a sharpened conscience. Besides, the results of training at the centre should have positive bearing on promotion and better posting to enthuse the participants for absorbing the training inputs. Unless performance in the training at the BPATC is weighed in these serious matters, the centre may not at all groom up as a useful organisation.
Jahid Hossain
Uttara, Dhaka
Reforming BPTAC
FE Team | Published: September 09, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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