ABSTRACT
The previous piece by Mr Sen has shown the way the college has evolved in keeping with the changing requirements in the country. The process of evolution is a continuing one. While the general management development courses of eight weeks duration continue to be offered, the college has, increasingly, turned its attention to offering specialist and short-term courses tailored to specific requirements. We thus have a continuing series of programmes on hospital management, management of education, environmental management, technology and R…D and command area development. New courses are being added, and some old ones are being dropped. This, indeed, is the essence of change. Even among the generalist courses, there are some which are geared to the needs of specific sectors. We now have courses for government administrators; some other programmes are meant for those involved in economic planning, and the emphasis here is increasingly on policy issues rather than on the mechanics of administration. Specialist courses in management are in the offing to cater to the requirements of the large and growing cadre of public-sector corporate executives. A short-term programme on tax policy and administration is under contemplation in collaboration with the concerned department of the Government of India. The college has also had a long and rewarding relationship with the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. An interesting extension of this is that we are planning to hold in the spring of 1984, a regional course, in collaboration with the Institute, on national economic management for the countries of South Asia.
