PATNA: The block development officers (BDOs) are being shown Shyam Benegal directed and Boman Irani starrer film 'Well Done Abba', during a five-day exhaustive training session which started on Monday. The officials, who are closely concerned with the execution of most of the development works and flagship schemes, are advised to seek some inspirations from the Bollywood's socio-political satire movie to improve their working.
All the 534 BDOs are being given training here at Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD) on various issues like MGNREGS, Indira Awas Yojna (IAY), watershed management, drinking water sanitation, socio-economic caste survey, role of panchayati raj institutions in development, National Rural Literacy Mission and stress management, to name a few. "The BDOs will be imparted training on decentralization initiatives and good practices in rural development related to flagship schemes," The training is being imparted in groups of 30 BDOs and there will be 18 five-day sessions of the training, which will continue till the first fortnight of 2013 at BIPARD at the outskirts of the state capital.
Mishra said all the BDOs will be extended back to back training at National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) in Hyderabad. Other subjects that are part of the training are RTI, right to services, computerized issue of certificates, knowledge of software, coordination with different departments, public grievances redressal and public representative protocol.
The objective is to share good practices and case studies on planning, implementation and monitoring methods in rural development programmes through lecture-cum-interactive sessions, group and panel discussion and exposure visits to block and gram panchayats.
The core contents of the training will be about gram sansad of West Bengal, district planning in Karnataka, peoples' planning initiatives in Kerala and Samras gram panchayat in Gujarat. Apart from that, seven identified sectors, namely health, education, livelihood, nutrition, infrastructure, energy and civil rights, will also be part of the training.
The BDOs will be required to visit self-help groups, meet major stakeholders of MGNREGS and share the overarching intent of the state to support decentralized planning process in the districts.
Mishra said the BDOs come under the rural development department. Following a policy decision of the state government in 2010, several non-gazetted government employees were promoted to the rank of BDO due to the lack of the officials appointed through Bihar Public Service Commission.
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