Andhra Pradesh has climbed to the top of India's civil-service training ladder — and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu wants every government employee to know it. On Tuesday, 29 September 2026, Naidu announced that the state has secured the first position in the country in capacity building for government employees under the central iGOT Mission Karmayogi platform, crossing what he called 'the landmark milestone of 2 crore online course completions.'

How 2 crore completions put AP at the top of the federal table

Mission Karmayogi, launched by the Government of India in 2021, is the country's flagship civil-service capacity-building programme. It runs on the iGOT (Integrated Government Online Training) digital platform, administered by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). The programme was designed to shift government training from classroom-bound, episodic events to a continuous, role-based, self-paced digital learning model — open to every central and state government employee.

Andhra Pradesh's reported ranking signals that the state has pushed its bureaucracy onto the platform at a scale that has outpaced every other Indian state. Crossing 2 crore completions is a volume metric that reflects both the size of the state's enrolled workforce and the sustained institutional push behind the effort. Naidu extended 'hearty congratulations to all the officers and staff' for the achievement.

The Vijayawada conference and the push to simplify rigid rules

Alongside the training milestone, Naidu flagged a Southern Regional Conference in Vijayawada as a 'pivotal turning point.' The conference, he said, is focused on 'simplifying rigid rules that hinder progress and modernizing our governance.' The framing is deliberate: rule simplification has been a recurring Naidu theme across his multiple terms as Chief Minister, and pairing it with a national training milestone amplifies the signal that Andhra Pradesh is pursuing administrative reform on two simultaneous tracks — skilling its people and clearing the procedural undergrowth that slows them down.

Swarna Andhra 2047 and the Viksit Bharat connection

Naidu anchored both achievements to two larger visions: Viksit Bharat, the national programme targeting a developed India by 2047, and Swarna Andhra 2047, the state's own centenary development blueprint. The dual invocation is politically savvy. By aligning AP's bureaucratic modernisation with the Centre's flagship long-term agenda — and tagging @PMOIndia and @DoPTGoI in the post — Naidu positions the state as a model implementer of central policy, not merely a passive recipient of it.

The competitive federalism at play here is real. Since 2021, states have raced to enrol employees and log completions on iGOT, turning a central training mandate into a reputational contest. Andhra Pradesh now leads that contest — and the Vijayawada conference suggests the next phase is about converting trained officials into a genuinely deregulated, faster-moving administration.

The pressure is now on every other state to answer: when does a training rank translate into a governance result citizens can feel?