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. 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.

Objectives

YASHADA is a composite training institute having a dual role as an Administrative Training Institute and a State Institute of Rural Development. The objectives of YASHADA are as follows:

• To promote modern management science as a major instrument for development of economic and social activities of the State Government, Zilla Parishads and other institutions and organizations of the State Government.
• To develop managerial skills, organizational capability, leadership and decision-making ability for development planning and efficiency in implementation of policies, programmes and projects.
• To carry on operational and policy-oriented research, to evolve ideas and concepts appropriate to the local, state and national environment and to formulate policy alternatives.
• To serve as the apex institute for the collection and dissemination of information regarding development administration.
• To foster, assist and support individuals, organizations and institutions in the use of management science.
• To provide consultancy services in development and public administration.
• To function as the nodal State-level training institute in the field of development administration.

Governance

• List of Members of Board of Governors, YASHADA


• यशदा नियामक मंडळाच्या सदस्यांची यादी


• List of Members of Executive Committee, YASHADA


• यशदा कार्यकारी समिती सदस्य

Programs and Activities

YASHADA has a varied mix of programmes and activities designed to achieve their objectives:

• Training programmes of short and long term duration including semina
• Policy-oriented and operations research;.
• Consultancy and extension services
• Publication and production of training aids.

The programmes encompass aspects relating to concepts, principles and techniques applicable to management in government. Functionaries of the Government of Maharashtra as well as teachers and practitioners of management in boards, corporations, and other public sector undertakings, representatives of non-governmental organisations, elected office-bearers of local self-government institutions and, in general, persons from institutions, bodies and organisations concerned with the use of knowledge in management are all participants in the activities of YASHADA.

Total Quality Management

YASHADA's Action Plan was given an award for Excellence by the Evaluation Committee. Yashada is one of five governmental training institutes in India selected in 1997-98 for a three year project on Total Quality Management (TQM) in training sponsored by the British Council. Two faculty members from each institute were sent to Cranfield University in the UK for TQM training during April-May 1997. YASHADA launched its TQM initiative by formulating its GOALS:

• To enable government bodies develop a relevant body of expertise and professionalism.
• To develop the attitudes, knowledge and skills of the individual government servant.
• To function as a nodal agency in Maharashtra for other governmental training institutions.
• To provide advice for policy making.

The goals were incorporated in YASHADA's TQM Action Plan and submitted to the Government of India as part of the TQM Project. Highlights of the TQM Action Plan:

• Formulated with the involvement of the entire staff and faculty.
• Focussed on priority work processes through Process Action Teams:
• Faculty Development.
• Staff development.
• Training process management.
• Supervision of Panchayat Training Centres.
• Library Services.
• Quality Information Systems.
• Infrastructure & Administration.
• Publications.