Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA) is the Administrative Training Institute of the Government of Maharashtra, and meets the training needs of government departments and rural and urban non-officials and stakeholders. Human Resource Development has traditionally been one of Maharashtra's major strengths. The importance of evolving sound and responsive administrative systems was realized as far back as 1963 when the Administrative Staff College (ASC) was established in Mumbai. Read more...

Our mission is to enable equitable and sustainable development by promoting people centered good governance. We achieve this by bringing together practical knowledge, applied research, appropriate technology and innovative training of public administrators community-based organisations and people's representatives. Our emphasis is to impart training in development administration. Training inputs are regularly updated through research and consultancy assignments, which enable the support of experience to the participants. Read more...