Sadhana Shrinkhla 2026: Four Workshops on Training Institutes

The Capacity Building Commission (CBC) announced on 28 September 2026 a nationwide series of regional consultations called Sadhana Shrinkhla 2026. Sadhana stands for Strengthening Adaptive Development and Humane Aptitude for National Advancement. The purpose is to carry forward the change of government Training Institutes under Mission Karmayogi into competency-driven Capacity Building Institutions, so that an institute is no longer a stand-alone provider of courses but a partner in building the skills a role demands.

Four regional workshops

Each workshop lasts a day and a half and brings together senior officials of the states and union territories of that region, heads and faculty of their training institutes, public sector undertakings, industry partners, subject experts and startup representatives. The host state's Chief Minister graces the event in the presence of the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr Jitendra Singh. At the opening round in Vijayawada the guest is the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandrababu Naidu, and officials and institutes from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry take part.

What came before

The series rests on earlier rounds of consultation: four Regional Task Forces, Sadhana Saptah 2026 held from 2 to 8 April 2026, and the National Departmental Summit on institutionalising capacity building held on 15 May 2026. Those rounds pointed to the need for one common framework to guide institutes through the shift.

Frameworks and a portal

Deliberations will cover institutional governance and leadership, operational effectiveness, training quality tied to the Karmayogi Quality Framework (KQF), faculty and competency development, and the adoption of digital and emerging technologies. The work is anchored in Capacity Building Plans that turn the government's role-based competency needs into action, described as the right capacity building for the right role at the right time. Implementation runs on the UNNATI portal, the Unified New-Age National Training Initiative, which brings more than 900 training institutions on to a single platform; its exchange, UXchange, lets them share courses, faculty and infrastructure. The findings will feed into the final Training Institution Transformation Framework, and the exercise keeps to the governance ethos of citizen centricity, Nagrik Devo Bhava, and consultation, Jan Bhagidari, on the road to Viksit Bharat @2047.