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Agreement with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
LKYSPP is a well-reputed school that aims to attain a status similar to Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It already has affiliation with Harvard and Columbia Universities of USA and is fast becoming a top rated school in the region.


Government of the Punjab, through the Punjab Resource Management Program, is taking concrete steps to create systems and partnerships to develop capacity of the provincial civil servants. The process of developing a long term partnership with National University of Singapore for building capacity of officers of Government of the Punjab at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore, was initiated during a visit to Singapore of Secretary P&D Department and Program Director, Punjab Resource Management Program.


After long discussions with LKYSPP, they have agreed to enter into a cost sharing arrangement for bright and young provincial civil servants for pursuing studies leading to Master Degree in Public Administration (MPA). 2 PMS officer have already left for LKYSPP w.e.f 23rd July, 2007 to undertake Mater in Public Administration (MPA).


An agreement is about to be signed between the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) and the Government of Punjab in this regard, in the presence of Chief Minister, Punjab, during the visit of Mr. Kishore Mahbubani, Dean LKYSPP, to Lahore in September, 2007.