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This
year CAPART recruited about 250 young professionals across
India
through campus placements from reputed institutes. The Young
Professionals (YPs) are provided with a 15 days orientation
training before they take up their respective assignments
within CAPART, DRDAs or NGOs. This year the course is being
organized at National Institute of Rural Development,
Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Forest Management,
Bhopal
, KIIT,
Bhubaneswar
and CAPART Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Rural
Technology (CIPART, the training wing of CAPART),
New Delhi
. At NIRD and IIFM, the course for the first batch was
inaugurated on 1st July and the 2nd
batches would start from 17th July and 18th July
2008, respectively.
 The
Orientation Course at CIPART was inaugurated by Shri V.
Venkatachalam, IAS, Director General, CAPART on 8th
July 2008. Shri R.P. Meena, Chief Vigilance Officer and Shri C
S Pandey, Director, CAPART also graced the occasion. Shri
Sanjay Awasthi, Director, CIPART welcomed the participants and
briefed them about the course content, etc. The Director
General emphasized that the Young Professionals should make
maximum use of the well designed course and the knowledge
imparted by the carefully selected resource persons.
The
course broadly consists of
topics like social demography,
rural structure and polity, government interventions, rural
credit and banking, microfinance, community mobilization,
rural technology, financial accounting, rural livelihoods,
micro enterprise development, role of VOs as development
agents, project formulation, project cycle, project
feasibility and role of IT. The resource persons are experts
in their chosen fields. An Exposure visit is also organized to
village Bargidam, Kalka, Ningania Social Welfare Society,
Sukhomajri watershed, Morni hills for study of livelihood
activities, non conventional energy sources, roof top rain
water harvesting. The participants would also participate in a
Grameen Vikas Andolan rally.
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