New Delhi: The Centre has identified 20
institutions, including IIT Kanpur, as national resource
centres to provide technical guidance and capacity building
support to states for effective implementation of its rural
drinking water supply and sanitation programmes.
These institutions will provide support to the states
in capacity building of "key" resource persons and programme
managers at different levels besides providing them technical
guidance in establishing and proper functioning of the
Communication and Capacity Development Unit (CCDUs), a Rural
Development Ministry official said.
These institutions which also include the National
Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad, will help
states in expanding technical guidance for implementation of
reform initiatives in different districts.
Ministry has asked all of these institutions to submit
"detailed action plan" for the year 2010-11 by March 15.
The basic objective is to provide support to the
states to develop their "information, education and
communication" strategy, which assumes "utmost" significance
so far as the success of the ministry`s programmes are
concerned, an official said.
"The success of the programmes is critically dependent
on the participation of the people, particularly the target
groups, in the implementation process. To enable people to
participate in the development process, it is necessary that
people have adequate knowledge about the nature and content of
the programmes," he said.
Institutions, identified for the purpose, will also
organise orientation workshops, meetings, trainings for main
stakeholders at the state level, an official said.
-PTI
