The Special Foundation Course (SFC) scheduled to be conducted at National Communications Academy – Finance, New Delhi, will be organized in overall guidance and in collaboration with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. This program will bring together newly inducted Officer Trainees from the All-India Services and Central Civil Services into a common learning experience, designed to mark their transition from private individuals to public servants. Structured as a rite of passage, the course seeks to instill in them the foundational values, principles, and orientation essential for a career in public service. The Foundation Course has adapted to the evolving challenges of governance while remaining deeply rooted in the core values of integrity, inclusivity, discipline, and public service. This Special Foundation Course holds special significance as it coincides with the 100th iteration of Foundation Course organized by LBSNAA, Mussoorie, since the Foundation Program’s inception in 1959. This SFC at NCA-F represents the continuity of India’s administrative vision and reaffirms the Academy’s steadfast commitment to nurturing ethical, competent, and citizen-centric civil servants for a dynamic and diverse democracy. The foundational underpinnings of the course and the driving force of course design, consequently, are the values of Ability, Anonymity and Austerity that together are vital to the engineering of citizen servants seeped in the ethos of public service. Further, in a major thrust towards desiloization and the whole of government approach that Mission Karmayogi strives towards, fostering esprit de corps among different services represented in the course is one of the vital deliverables of this SFC. The course is so structured that group-based experiential learning, shared activities and experiences foster the emergence of lasting, informal bonds of camaraderie that help civil servants in navigating across departmental and institutional silos and layers of government to deliver greater efficiency and impact. 

Finally, by providing exposure to national and international thought leaders, the SFC aims at broadening horizons of thought and action for young civil servants who must think global and act local to be effective and bring about sustainable change.