RAWALPINDI, Aug 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has stressed the need for ensuring that civil servants are well-equipped to meet the challenges of globalization, good governance and service delivery at the grass roots and strategic levels.

Addressing a meeting of the board of governors of the National School of Public Policy at Army House here on Wednesday, he emphasized the role of the government in uprooting corruption from the ranks of civil servants.

The board, including prominent academicians and personalities from both public and private sectors, decided to lay the foundation of a training environment comparable to the best in the world.

Recognizing the role of training in enhancing professional expertise and skill capabilities along modern lines, the government had decided in 2002 to establish the National School of Public Policy as an independent institution for training and research on public policy.

The existing training institutions of the Civil Services Academy, national institutes of public demonstration and Pakistan Administrative Staff College have been integrated into the school.

It aims at reforming training methods and syllabi, improving quality of education and training for civil servants and consolidating fragmented training in fields such as public policy, law, economics, finance, management science, human rights, democracy and gender mainstreaming.—Online