Union Territories Civil Services (UTCS) 
The Working Group had a total of five sessions. On the basis of the deliberations of the first two sessions, a provisional set of issues was prepared for further study. A set of questionnaire was prepared by the Training Division of the Department of Personnel & Training embodying these issues and seeking to elicit information on the current status of training arrangements in the different Ministries, Departments and other organisations of the Government of India as well as the State Governments (Annexures 'B' & 'C'). The opinions of these organisations were also sought for on questions like the desirability of a National Training Policy, the institutional arrangements for conducting training in the light of the policy and so on.
This was followed by consultation with various Ministries, Departments and organisations of the Government of India on the current status of training in various organisations and on the context of the National Training Policy.
This was followed by a two-day workshop of the heads of the Training Institutions of the State Governments (mostly Administrative Training Institutions). This was arranged at Gurgaon under the joint auspices of the Government of Haryana and the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. An exercise similar to the one made in the earlier workshop was conducted. The main issues suggested for being pursued by the working Group were listed by three groups of participants. They formulated three sets of issues relating to training policy, provision of infrastructure, the role of coordination and several other related issues. These were remitted to the Working Group for its consideration.
There was a second round of consultations with the Ministries and Departments of the Government of India, at the IIPA, New Delhi, on February 3 and 4, 1994 which led to a set of recommendations for the consideration of the Working Group.
All this work was assisted by a general paper on the training issues and environment prepared by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
The group has benefited a great deal from the earlier exercises made on the subject by various expert groups of the Government of India and international organisations. The group has drawn substantially upon the current literature on the subject of training to enlarge, clarify and refine its ideas on the subject.