Elite senior government officials will be selected for a special training program to create a pool of technocrats ready if a Cabinet reshuffle is necessary, an Examination Yuan official said Thursday. There are about 9,000 senior officials in Taiwan who are classified grade 11 or above, said Huang Yea-baang, secretary-general of the Examination Yuan. About 1,600 of them will be targeted to receive training to make them 'all- capable officials' who can take up cross-disciplinary posts, Huang said. They will be given extra pay to undertake the training and stand by, Huang said. There will also be an 'exit mechanism' if their performances fall short of expectations, he added. According to Huang, Examination Yuan President John Kuan came up with the idea after recent fact-finding trips to Finland, Sweden and Denmark to learn how elite civil servants are nurtured in those Scandinavian countries. 