A group of nine trainee officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), India Police Service (IPS) and other allied services visited various villages of Jhajjar district for seven days to acquire information about public welfare schemes and their implementation under their training programme.
During the visit, the trainee officers acquainted themselves with the economic and socio-cultural environment of the rural area by interacting with villagers on various social and economic issues. With the help of local administrative officers, they also gathered vital information about execution format of the welfare schemes at the grass root level and their beneficiaries.
later, the officers shared their experiences of the practical training with Jhajjar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ajit Balaji Joshi at his office and gave their feedback about present status of the schemes and the people’s attention towards them. The trainee officers also discussed with the DC over future prospects of these schemes and the benefit being extended by the government to the needy people.
“Such sorts of training aim at acquainting the newly appointed officers with rustic life, culture, problems encountered by them in day-to-day life, various rural development programmes with the help of participatory learning action (PlA) techniques, focus group discussion and interview techniques,” said Joshi, adding that the training would turn out to be helpful for the officer trainees in taking vital administrative decisions during their services.
Besides acquiring basic inputs about power generation, gender ratio, agriculture and basic infrastructure of the district, the trainee officers also obtained knowledge regarding sports facilities being made available at village level. They also appreciated the enthusiasm of rural youth towards sports, the DC added. The trainee officers include Prakash Reddy of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Rahul Pandey of Uttar Pradesh Cadre, Arya Shakti, Puneeta, R Prashad, Shravan Kumar, Amrita Panda, Kapil Goyal and Vineet.