In a bid to provide employment to urban poor, Under Deen Dayal Antyodaya National Urban Livelihood Mission (DDANULM), ‘Ten Day Residential Training cum Capacity Enhancement Programme’ of Community Resource Servants (CRPs) from November 6 to November 15 organized by Directorate of Urban Administration, Urban Development and Housing Department, Kejriwal Institute of Management and Development Studies conclude began today at Namkum in Ranchi.
The training programme was started by lighting the lamp by Director, Directorate of Urban Administration, Vijaya Jadhav. In the training programme the State Resource Persons of JSLPS and the State Mission Managers of NULM will give training to 126 Community Resource Persons (CRPs) from the State bodies on various subjects.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the training programme, Jadhav apprised all the trainees about the objectives of the training programme, its benefits and various points related to the present problems. While motivating the women, she said, “You should devote your hundred per cent in the training programme and become an important cadre of the body for capacity building and in the implementation of schemes, in increasing leadership capacity, in increasing financial awareness, in removing social evils.” She stressed upon all the CRP women to empower the poor women belonging to Self-Help Groups (SHGs) of their urban area and motivate them to be self-employed.
The Director said that through this 10-day residential training programme, CRP Didis would get valuable knowledge and experience related to formation, promotion, empowerment, employment generation and speeding up the process of their development in urban areas of Jharkhand. This will empower the women of the State more, she added. Jadhav also pointed out that Social Motivation and Institution Development (SM and ID) is a major component of DE-NULM. At present 12,355 Self Help Groups (SHGs) have been formed in 50 Urban Municipal Bodies (ULBs) working in Jharkhand under the Day-NULM scheme. “The objective of the training program is to empower the poor women belonging to the SHG of the urban area through capacity building of CRPs Didis, their intellectual development and to develop mutual understanding among them,” she added.
The main focus of the training programme is 'What is poverty? Trainees will be introduced to 'Main Causes of Poverty, Causes of Poverty and Seven Steps to Eliminate Poverty', why groups, trainer's case study, chart work and exercises through writing exercises, speech and educational games. In the training course, mainly the definition of group, formation of group, things to pay attention to in group formation, rules of group, characteristics of a good group were discussed.