Forty senior Sri Lankan civil servants completed a capacity-building program at India's National Centre for Good Governance from Sept. 22 through Oct. 3, and the Indian High Commission announced the results on Saturday. The training focused on urban transformation practices under the theme Clean Cities, Better Future: Transforming Urban Sri Lanka with Regional Practices. Officials designed the curriculum to support President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's Clean Sri Lanka initiative, announced in January 2025, while aligning with India's Swachhata Hi Seva 2025 campaign.
Participants attended sessions on urban planning, municipal governance, public-private partnerships, solid waste management, plastic waste recycling, digital transformation, and urban transport. Field visits exposed trainees to programs at the National Institute of Urban Affairs, Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Authority, Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Tehkhand Waste-to-Energy Project, and Delhi Metro Rail Project. The program marked the fifth training cycle under a December 2024 memorandum between NCGG and the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration to train 1,500 officers over five years.
Participants attended sessions on urban planning, municipal governance, public-private partnerships, solid waste management, plastic waste recycling, digital transformation, and urban transport. Field visits exposed trainees to programs at the National Institute of Urban Affairs, Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Authority, Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Tehkhand Waste-to-Energy Project, and Delhi Metro Rail Project. The program marked the fifth training cycle under a December 2024 memorandum between NCGG and the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration to train 1,500 officers over five years.
