Management of Technical Training to Augment the Understanding and Expertise of Water Professionals to Attain the Anticipated Outcome of the Scientific Organization in Keeping Pace – A Case Study by the Way of DoPT Approved Methodology

Abstract

Scientists in the national level water research organizations are facing problem to submit technical reports in time on account of their insufficient knowledge about the software used for analysis of the field data. The line departments working in the water sector are in need to enhance knowledge and to build the required capacity on the software to present the scenario in the form of technical reports and interpretation of the facts thereto. Therefore, the effective management of the scientific trainings especially on the software is mandatory for achieving the desired goal of any scientific organization. An effective management of the technical trainings would useful to strengthen the professional competence of the officials working in the various Regional and State Unit offices of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), which would ensure the stakeholders participation to achieve the set of objectives of the organization as well. Being national level apex body, the CGWB is entrusted with the responsibilities of providing scientific inputs for sustainable management, exploration, monitoring, assessment, augmentation and regulation of groundwater resources of the country. CGWB is consisting of Hydrogeologists, Geophysicists, Chemists, Hydrologists, Hydrometeorologists and Engineers and its headquarters is located at Faridabad, Haryana. Major groundwater oriented activities undertaking by CGWB include research and development (R&D) studies, exploratory drilling programme, monitoring of groundwater regime followed by judicious management. The Rajiv Gandhi National Ground Water Training and Research Institute (RGNGWTRI), the training institute under CGWB is the training and research institute of CGWB and is envisaged to function as a `Centre of Excellence’ for imparting training to the personnel associated with the groundwater sector with an objective to develop a pool of trained resource persons, who would be working towards sustainability of this precious natural resources. The aims and objectives, performance problems, various environmental, motivational and behavioural problems have been considered for the Management of Training (MoT). The paper includes the major components like Training and Non-training Recommendations, Training Plan, Priority List and Design Brief. The paper recommends training and non-training implications along with training design. The post training external validation is a step of MoT, which to be carried out after obtaining report on the performance of the trainees from Line Managers or Senior Manager.