<span style="color: #222222;">Union Minister and National Chairman of Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) Dr. Jitendra Singh on Wednesday approved 111 new members of IIPA including nine newly recruited IAS officers serving as Assistant Secretaries at the centre.<br />''<br />''Presiding the 321st meeting of the Executive Council of IIPA, Dr. Singh expressed satisfaction that over 500 members were enrolled since November last year, when he decided to throw open the IIPA membership to the serving officers. The IIPA membership was earlier reserved for only retired officers.<br />'' <br />''The Minister said that the institute has to have a futuristic vision for the next 25 years to attain the goals set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said, to achieve this, the institute needs to have an integrated approach to work in cohesion with similar departments, organizations, set-ups and entities with similar scope and focus, related to training, and administrative expertise.<br />''<br />''The Minister urged the regional branches of IIPA to speed up the membership drive to bring quality manpower to IIPA fraternity. Earlier, Dr. Singh also inaugurated the new Conference Hall of IIPA named Sambhav in the meeting.</span><br />