ISLAMABAD: The government has reduced the period for mandatory promotion training by four weeks for both national training course (NMC) and senior management course (SMC).
According to a circular issued by Establishment Division on Thursday, the course period for NMC has been reduced to 18 weeks from 22 weeks. Similarly, the time period for SMC has been reduced to 16 weeks from 20 weeks.
The reduced duration will apply with effect from the next NMC and SMC commencing from September 11 and 23, 2017, respectively.
The officials at Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) said that it would help the officials on training courses to resume offices as FBR facing shortage of staff.