A week-long training workshop on training of trainers for in-service State Forest Service (SFS) officers from across the country began at the Central Academy for State Forest Service here on Monday.
Welcoming the participants, IFS officer and course director Dr KS Jayachandran stressed on the need of the Forest Department to improve the training institutions through highly efficient training methodologies.
He said that training of trainers is not only important for faculty members of State Forest Training Institutes, but also relevant to the forest officers to keep their subordinate staff scientifically trained through systematic approaches. CASFoS senior faculty Meera Iyer assured the participants that the training content is scientifically designed keeping in view the demands of change in the forestry training sector. Master trainer accredited by the Department of Personnel and Training, GoI, IJ Mittal said that Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) has been spearheaded by the DoPT for more than two decades now. The training which began on Monday aims to develop faculty members for State Forest Training Institutes across the country as per SAT.