The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) and the Capacity Building Commission (CBC) are organizing the National Departmental Summit on “Institutionalizing Capacity Building: From Training to Performance-linked Governance” on 15th May 2026.

The Summit is being organized virtually and will be chaired by Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

The Summit will help build consensus on the frameworks and implementation roadmap required to strengthen role-based, competency-driven and performance-linked capacity building across the Centre, States and Union Territories.

As a prelude to the Summit, a National Workshop with States/UTs was conducted virtually on 26 February. The workshop was attended by heads of General Administration Departments/Departments of Personnel or equivalent departments of States/UTs, heads of State/UT Administrative Training Institutes, and senior representatives from key institutions.

During the workshop, States/UTs were requested to conduct internal consultative workshops and share structured inputs on institutionalizing capacity building and enabling performance-linked governance.

These State/UT-level consultations were designed to engage departments, training institutions, HR/eHRMS teams and other stakeholders to ensure that the deliberations are grounded in practical administrative realities.

The consultations focused on identifying existing good practices, implementation challenges, and reforms needed to strengthen training institutions and training systems. Based on the inputs received from States/UTs, a consolidated note has been prepared for deliberation during the Summit.