The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) has a NIC Training Unit of National Informatics Centre (NICTU) within its campus.
NICTU designs, coordinate, manages and delivers the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) related components as per the requirements of each training programme at LBSNAA. In addition, NICTU also caters to the ICT related capacity-building requirements of officials and faculty of LBSNAA.
Most of the ICT training delivery at LBSNAA is managed through the in-house NICTU Faculty. The NICTU Labs are equipped with latest machines, on the premise and on the cloud, managed by the experienced faculty of NIC. It also has the necessary resources like the relevant use cases, project assignments, software and gadgets for providing immersive experience and hands-on skilling. The diversity and variety of ICT topics are also covered through lectures-cum-demonstrations by invited guest speakers from within the services as well as from the leading organisations of national and international repute.
The skilling of the Officer Trainees/ probationers and participants of the training programmes of LBSNAA, and the exposure given to them spans a vast spectrum of ICT and its applications. The purpose is to equip them with adequate knowledge and skills to take necessary action and appropriate decisions during their field-level postings, particularly in managing Public Service Delivery, SMART cities, supply chain management and disaster management.
They are made to practice sufficient levels of digital dexterity aimed at improving productivity and collaboration.
Data literacy exposes them to handle different formats of data to gain meaningful and actionable insights for data-driven decision making and fraud detection. They are made to summarise, visualise, and analyse any given data using statistical thinking, Python libraries, and tools like MS-Excel, Google sheets, MS-PowerBI, and Google Colab.
They are also exposed to the global best practices in Digital Transformation, eGovernance applications, ICT Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Geographical Information System, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Generative AI, IoT, Drones, and other emerging technologies.
