Which of the following statements about the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) are correct? 1. NCGG was set up by the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. 2. The National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR) has been rechristened and subsumed into NCGG. 3. NCGG is an apex-level autonomous body under the Ministry of Home Affairs. 4. The Chairperson of the Governing Body of the NCGG is the Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- (a)1, 2 and 4
- (b)2 and 4 only
- (c)1 and 3 only
- (d)3 and 4 only
Correct — B, 2 and 4 only. Statement 2 is right: the National Centre for Good Governance grew out of the National Institute of Administrative Research, which was rechristened and subsumed into it, and NIAR was an arm of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie. Statement 4 is right as well: the Chairperson of the NCGG Governing Body is the Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India, with the Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances as Vice-Chairperson, secretaries of several ministries and departments as members, external members, and the Director General of NCGG as Member-Secretary. Statement 1 fails on the parent institution — the ancestry runs through the civil-service academy at Mussoorie, not through the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy at Hyderabad, which trains Indian Police Service officers. Statement 3 fails on the ministry — NCGG is an apex-level autonomous institution under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, not under the Ministry of Home Affairs. With 1 and 3 out and 2 and 4 in, only (b) survives.
- (a)1, 2 and 4 — Carries statement 1. NCGG's ancestor NIAR belonged to the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, not to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy.
- (c)1 and 3 only — Both of the statements it keeps are the false ones — the wrong parent academy and the wrong ministry — and it drops the two that are true.
- (d)3 and 4 only — Right about the Cabinet Secretary but wrong on the ministry. NCGG sits under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
The National Centre for Good Governance is the Government of India's think tank and training arm for administrative reform and public-service delivery. It works under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, keeps offices in New Delhi and Mussoorie, and is best known for training civil servants from partner countries — Bangladesh, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and others — alongside Indian officers. Its Governing Body is headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
Two of the four statements are the sort of detail a candidate can reason out rather than recall. The Cabinet Secretary chairing the governing body of a civil-service reform institution is exactly the pattern you would expect, so statement 4 is safe. And a body devoted to administrative reform and public grievances plainly belongs with the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, not with the police ministry, which disposes of statement 3 and, with it, of options (c) and (d). What is left is statement 1, and the discriminating fact is that the National Institute of Administrative Research was created by the academy that trains civil servants at Mussoorie — the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. Substituting the police academy at Hyderabad is the item's one manufactured error.
- NCGG absorbed the National Institute of Administrative Research, an arm of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
- It functions under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
- The Governing Body is chaired by the Cabinet Secretary; the Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances is Vice-Chairperson and the Director General of NCGG is Member-Secretary.
- The Governing Body also carries secretaries of several ministries and departments plus five external members.
- NCGG works out of New Delhi and Mussoorie and runs capacity-building programmes for civil servants of partner countries as well as for Indian officers.
- Filing anything with 'National Academy' in its name under the Ministry of Home Affairs — the police academy is, the administration academy is not.
- Confusing the Cabinet Secretary, who chairs the NCGG Governing Body, with the Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, who is Vice-Chairperson.
- Assuming NCGG is a statutory body; it is an autonomous institution created administratively.
As a multi-statement item mixing a body's parent ministry, its lineage and the office that heads it — the parent ministry is almost always where the error is planted.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The National Centre for Good Governance functions under which one of the following?
- (a)Ministry of Home Affairs
- (b)NITI Aayog
- (c)Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances
- (d)Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Answer(c) Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances — which is part of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which one of the following academies trains officers of the Indian Police Service?
- (a)Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
- (b)Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy
- (c)National Centre for Good Governance
- (d)Indian Institute of Public Administration
Answer(b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad — the Mussoorie academy trains the Indian Administrative Service.