TRAINING

Categories of training imparted by WALMI with subject matter covered and with duration of training are given in Table-1. During last 25 years (1984-85 to 2008-09), the Institute has imparted 981 number of trainings to 33,875 persons comprising 15,853 Government officers belonging to Water Resources & Agriculture Departments and 18,022 farmers (Table- 2). During 2008-09, 147 training programmes were conducted in which 992 Govt. employees and 3568 office bearers of Pani Panchayats from different irrigation (Major, Medium, Minor and Lift) projects including 79 farmers and 20 officers from other States were trained. The details are given in the Table- 3.

Table 1. Duration of Training Courses conducted for different categories of stakeholders

Table 2. Year-wise Trainings Conducted By WALMI

Besides, the Institute organized four Inter-State training-cum-visit programmes in which groups of progressive farmers from Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu headed by the Govt. officials of the concerned state participated in the training and visited different irrigation projects and national and state level research institutes. There were altogether 99 participants in these 4 training programmes. During the visit they had fruitful interactions with the office bearers of Pani Panchayats on the functioning of PIM concept of Orissa. Besides, 315 newly recruited Junior Engineers of DOWR were trained in 6 batches through Orientation and Induction training programmes on irrigation engineering, water management and other departmental activities. Apart from these trainings, senior level Engineers of DOWR, Agriculture Engineers and Agriculture Officers of Directorate of Agriculture and CADA were also trained on various aspects of Water Resource Development and Management and Sustainable Agriculture. During this year, greater thrust was laid on capacity building of office bearers of Pani Panchayats in order to achieve success in implementation of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) in Orissa.