Organization ........

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. The ASC was relocated at Pune in 1984 and renamed "Maharashtra Institute of Development Administration" (MIDA).MIDA,constituted as an autonomous society under the Societies Registrations Act, 1860, was to serve as the  apex body for promoting and developing modern management practices and was to function as the nodal state level training institute in the field of development administration. Aptly  enough, it was rechristened, "Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration" (YASHADA) in 1990, as a tribute to the pioneering spirit of the late Shri Y. B. Chavan, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra & Deputy Prime Minister of India, who had inspired the setting up of the ASC.