Subroto Bagchi gets Cabinet status, will look after civil training institutions

Bhubaneswar, (Odisha connect): Subrato Bagchi, former chairman of the Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA) and co-founder of Mindtree Software, was appointed Cabinet minister by the Odisha government today. According to an announcement from the Chief Minister’s office, he would be in charge of improving civil service training institutions in the state.

Sri Bagchi has been a member of the CM’s advisory group since 2016 and was chosen as the state government’s pandemic spokesperson in March 2020, when Covid-19 began spreading its tentacles. 

In his new role, he will serve as the Chief Advisor to Government for Institutional Capacity Building across all Civil Services Training Institutions in the state, and he will hold the status of cabinet minister.

In his new post, he will seek to develop a vision for the Civil Services Training Institutions that will help them compete with the finest in the world.

He will offer these institutions with a consistent direction for developing leadership capacities in both entry-level and in-service state civil servants.