Registered workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) who have passed X-XII standard are being trained to become barefoot technicians (BFT) in Chhattisgarh, officials informed.
About 436 rural youth have already become barefoot technicians. The project had been launched by the Union Rural Development Ministry New Delhi to augment the shortage of technical trained manpower. The project is being implemented in a remarkable manner in Chhattisgarh, they informed.
The students are being trained successfully. The training programme is being organized by the Thakur Pyarelal State Panchayat and Rural Development Institute, Nimora, Raipur.
MNREGA Director P. C. Misra said that the local workers are being trained in Civil Engineering works to become barefoot technicians. A pilot project had been started in Chhattisgarh which is now being implemented all over the country. About 436 workers had already been trained in 18 batches. The schedule training is of 90 days and the State Government also provides additional ten days training in basics of computer skills. Agricultural Skill Counselling of India New Delhi conducts examination and issues pass certificates to the students.