Chhattisgarh officials to hone management skills at IIMA

Chhattisgarh’s senior bureaucrats and project officers are now going to hone further their management skills which they would need to adopt for managing a wide set of complex projects.  The training for officials is coming at a time when the Government is feverishly working on development of Naya Raipur—a hi-tech city with infrastructure comparable with any recognised ‘Smart City’ in the global map.

For instance,  Naya Raipur as per plans would have a project comprising IT-enabled systems to manage a host of utilities using state-of-art technology.

The design would comprise IT enabled land management system,  city surveillance besides a host of other systems till now popular and being used only in the developed countries.

The other city management systems include intelligent lighting systems, pay and use parking systems, city guide map available through web browser, intelligent transport system, city level wi-fi touch screens across the city, display boards across the city for providing real time information, emergency alert and crisis response systems, traffic re-routing applications based on real time traffic data.

The city would also have a Central Control Centre for monitoring all the services including central traffic control and management system.Chief Minister Raman Singh will inaugurate a three-day workshop on ‘public private partnership’ at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Ahmedabad on August 7.Top administrative officers of the State including Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand will take part in the programme, Principal Secretary, Information Technology (IT) and Energy, Aman Kumar Singh informed.

 He said that 37 senior officers from Chhattisgarh would participate in the workshop which is intended to hone their managerial skills related with different projects. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Additional Chief Secretary Housing & Environment N Baijendra Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture, Ajay Singh along with  district Collectors/Directors would also take part in the programme, he said.

Singh said that administrative officers have to face several difficulties while preparing any public welfare scheme.Better knowledge about PPP model will help officers while formulating policies for any region or project.Vice Chairman of Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) AM Parial while detailing about the topics to discussed in the workshop said that road, energy, health, tourism, education and social infrastructure would be some of the areas to be discussed in the workshop. 

Case studies over water evacuation and disaster management of different Indian states and foreign nations will be presented in the workshop.Experts like Sebastian Morris of IIM Ahmedabad, Ajay Pandey, G Raghuram, Gautam Dutta and others will deliberate over various issues, Parial informed.   

Notably CHiPS has earlier also organized similar workshop for officers in the State.