PATNA: As many as 85 young professionals, both men and women, selected from reputed institutions would lend their expertise in successful implementation of rural livelihood programme through Self Help Groups (SHGs) -- earlier launched with World Bank aid and called Jeevika programme, but now rechristened as State Rural Livelihood Mission (SRLM) as part of National Rural Livelihood Mission ( NRLM) -- in all the 38 districts of Bihar.
State deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi,
inaugurating the nine-day induction programme for the 85 young
professionals here on Wednesday, said that the state government had
decided to use SHGs mode as an effective mechanism to bring about
dynamic change in the state's countryside incorporating families to
which SHG members belong. "The SHGs have proved to be a highly
successful motor of economic and social change in Andhra Pradesh (AP)
and Tamil Nadu, and the Bihar government has also made up its mind to
replicate the same model and experience in the state," Modi said.
Accordingly, these
management professionals are expected to provide guide and support
systems to the SHGs formed under Bihar's SRLM. They had management
training and education in such reputed institutions as the London School
of Economics, the Institute of Rural Management (Anand, Gujarat), the
Indian Institute of Management (Bhopal), the Chandragupta Institute of
Management Patna, the St Xavier Institute of Management (Bhubaneswar),
the Tata Institute of Social Science (Mumbai), and the Indian Institute of Rural Management (Jaipur), among others.
Those who also addressed them included rural development department (RDD) minister Nitish Mishra, RDD principal secretary Santosh Matthew and chief executive officer (CEO) of Jeevika project Arvind Choudhary
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