On June 16, Wang Guoping, Executive Vice President of Shanghai Administration Institute (SAI), met Chatterjee, Director of Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA).
Wang reviewed the academic visit of SAI to IIPA in 2013 and spoke highly of it. He regarded the visit as the initiative of launching the training program of Senior Managers Training Delegation in Branch 5 of SAI, which was a great success. Wang then detailed SAI in every aspect, especially the cooperation areas in civil servants training, public administration, academic exchanges and bilateral seminars. When talking about the future development of SAI, Wang shared his blueprint for SAI: on one hand, carrying out civil servants training as its main task, and on the other hand, putting the training as a platform for promoting government work. Specifically speaking, SAI will deliver specially-designed seminar programs for the core concerns of government work on certain field, e.g. environmental protection, so as to seek efficient solutions. As to intercultural communications by SAI, Wang said that SAI had been maintaining relatively stable cooperation partnership all over the world, among which were Harvard University, University of Oxford, Italian National School of Governance(SNA) as well as Indian Institute of Public Administration(IIPA). The cooperation areas cover a wide range of public servants training, joint academic research, visiting scholars, bilateral and international conferences and postgraduates exchange programs.
Chatterjee, the Director of Indian Institute of Public Administration extended his gratitude to SAI for the warm reception. He still remembered clearly SAI’s visit on December 13, 2013 and highly praised the meeting between the two parties, which propelled the concrete training programs for the Senior Managers Training Delegation. He also mentioned that the feedbacks from the trainees were very good so that IIPA decided to continue this program the next year. Because SAI possessed first-class teaching facilities and teaching faculties, extensively adopting advanced training methods and designing purpose-oriented classes for every training program, it was a great attraction for overseas training agencies. Moreover, Chatterjee hoped to send more teaching faculty delegations each other to promote the cooperation in TOT (training of trainers)