A four-day training programme on ‘Freshwater Aquaculture as a livelihood option for tribal youth of Assam’ got underway at the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) here on Wednesday.
The programme is sponsored by the 21 Battalion, Mahar Regiment of the Indian Army for socio-economic development of youths of frontier areas of Assam. In this programme, 20 tribal youths from frontier areas are imparted training on new techniques of freshwater aquaculture practices.
CIFA Director Dr P Jayasankar inaugurated the programme and highlighted the role of the CIFA for research in frontier areas of the freshwater aquaculture and dissemination of the technology to the farming community. He encouraged the participants to get as much knowledge about fish culture from CIFA.
Principal Scientist Dr BC Mohapatra spoke on the role of the CIFA in dissemination of aquaculture technologies to the tribal community of India through TSP. Captain Asish Srivastav from the 21 Battalion, Mahar Regiment of Indian Army, Assam thanked CIFA for giving training to the tribal youths of Assam consecutively for last two years.
Heads of the divisions, scientists, technical officers of the CIFA and KVK (Khordha) and members of the 21 Battalion were present, among others, at the inaugural event.