Online MDP for IPoS officers begins at IIM Indore

The Online Management Development Programme for the Officers of the Indian Postal Services(IPoS) began at IIM Indore on Monday(June 07, 2021). The two-week programme was inaugurated virtually. In his address Professor Himanshu Rai, Director, IIM,advised the officers to add imagination to vision to create a better world, add compassion to passion and work hard with perseverance to find the grit.  Professor Rai commended the resilience with which the national services have risen to the occasion during calamities- be it the banks, administrative services, postal services etc. He said that in the post 4th industrial revolution world, the kind of skill sets which would be required is going to be different from what the management institutions have provided conventionally. ‘Today, dreams are becoming the reality, and artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics are going to take over certain elements of the jobs we currently do. Therefore, there would be more complex decision-making jobs that would fall upon human beings. Hence, we need to learn how to make the right choices’, he said.
 Addressing the officers, Ms. Alka Jha, Member-Planning and HRD, Postal Services Board, said ,the officers participating in the programme have reached the mid-point of their careers and it is the right time to upsurge the knowledge of their expertise. She noted that the postal services have been very traditional, but the pandemic has taught and left the department a couple of significant lessons; that the department with its robust network can not only reinforce itself but also come up to the level of expectations of the government and people. Ms. Jha said that the programme will help them gain as much knowledge and exposure for the skills required for the Indian Postal Services. 

In his speach, P.M. Lal, Director, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA) said that this batch of offices have a work experience of 15-17 years and are amongst the biggest stakeholders in the Indian Postal Services. We have great expectations and hope from them and we believe that this programme will enhance their skills in terms of leadership, management, strategy and decision making’, he said.