Description: On 15 April 1958, The Government set up a National Academy of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration a civil service training institute on public policy and public administration in India. Later amalgamated with the IAS Training School, Delhi and the IAS Staff College Shimla to form a National Academy of Administration to set up Mussoorie in 1959. The training of the first batch of officers started at Metcalf House in Delhi on 13 April 1959 with 115 officers. In September 1959, the academy shifted to the Charleville Hotel in Mussoorie the hotel was built in 1854. The writer Rudyard Kipling stayed here in 1888. In 1984, a fire destroyed the main hotel building. The hotel was purchased by the government from private hands. The Academy's two times changed his name. In October 1972, it was renamed as Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration and the institution got its present name of Lal Badhur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in July 1973. The Motto of the Training College which is in Sanskrit "शीलं परम भूषणम्" (Sheelam Param Bhushanam) means "Character is the highest virtue".