A total of 1,137 Rural Agricultural Extension Officers had been trained for skill development during the last two financial years at the Chhattisgarh State Agriculture Training Academy.
Out of the total number of officials , 1053 officials were trained during 2012-13 while 84 were trained during 2011-12, an official press release said here on Thursday.
Besides this, the training imparted on enhancing capacity to do work and bring about high quality in work done, the trainees are also taught to develop inter-personal skills.
This apart, training was also offered to the 208 officers of 2008-09 batch besides 929 newly-appointed batch of officers of the 2012-13 batch under two separate programmes.
A 45-day training was offered to the 2008-09 batch of Rural Extension Officers in which they are provided information on new technology besides imparting training on skill development and inter-personal skills.
During 2012-13, there were a total of three training programmes organised at the State Agriculture Training Academy in which 124 ‘Rural Agriculture Extension Officers’ were trained.
Similarly, during 2011-12, two training programmes were held and a total of 84 ‘Rural Agriculture Extension Officers’ were imparted training.