Mid-Career Training Programme For Civil Servants : BIMSTEC
India’s National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) has initiated its first-ever Mid-Career Training Programme for civil servants from the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) nations.
- BIMSTEC is a regional organization comprising seven member states lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity.
- It came into being on 6 June 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration.
- It constitutes seven Member States: five deriving from South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and two from Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and Thailand.
- The main aim of the BIMSTEC was the promotion of economic cooperation between countries bordering the Bay of Bengal.
- BIMSTEC has identified 14 priority areas of mutual cooperation where a member country takes the lead.
- India is the lead country for Transport & Communication, Tourism, Environment & Disaster Management and Counter Terrorism & Transnational Crime.
- Permanent Secretariat: Dhaka, Bangladesh
