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A special meeting of Managing Committee of Sambalpur Chapter of Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD) took place in the guest house of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) on Sunday, September 20th, 2009. Sri Shyama Charan Padhy, Director Personnel, MCL presided over the meeting as the chairperson of the chapter. Sri Y. Manohar, Director Personnel, Vizak Steels Limited, Salem was invited to it as a special guest, who is the National Chairman of ISTD. Sri Amarendra Kumar, Vice Chairman; Sri Pramod Kumar Sahoo, Honorary Secretary; Sri Uday Nath Behera, Honorary Treasurer also participated in it with Managing Committee Members, Sri Biswabash Behuria, Sri Khirod Chandra Malick, Sri Ashok Kumar Rath & Dr Tusar Kanti Das. Sri A.K.Das Mohapatra & Dr Premananda Panda were invited to the meeting as the members of National Council of ISTD. Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, Manager Public Relations, BISWA participated in it as a co-opted member. The main purpose of the meeting was to take a final decision on how to organise a Regional Convention of ISTD at Sambalpur on 4th & 5th December 2009. It was earlier proposed on 27th & 28th November 2009, but it needed to change the date for obvious reason. The agenda of the Managing Committee Meeting covered points like date of convention, venue, structure of technical sessions, brochure details, budget, participation of other organisations, transportation & hospitality to invited guests & speakers, membership drive and expected contributions from other organisations. It was finally resolved in the meeting that the Sambalpur Chapter of ISTD will organise the proposed regional convention in association with MCL. It is to be known as 'Eastern Regional Convention on Attracting & Retaining Talent: A Challenge for Organisational Excellence' in the name and style of "ERC 2009". The convention will be organised at MCL Auditorium on December 4th & 5th, 2009. The meeting also finalised the six subthemes, so that the Convention may concentrate on them only. The decided themes are (1) Attracting and recruiting Talented Workforce: Challenges for HRD, (2) Building Creative Workplace; the Nurturing Organisation, (3) Frameworks of Talent Retention in PSUs (4) Talents on Move: the Cost Aspect, (5) Motivational Factors in Employee Retention & (6) Emotional Intelligence and Worklife Balance. It was also resolved in the meeting that no stone would be left unturned to make the local organisations join and participate in the proposed convention. All possible attempts would be take in this concern. Sri Manohar assured his utmost support to make this convention a grand success. He has deposed faith in the organising ability of the Sambalpur Chapter of ISTD, as it has shown such feats on earlier occasions. The meeting was concluded with vote of thanks from the chair.
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Communicate Minds

1st October 2009

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Training for Shakti Sahayika

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T he training programme for Shakti Sahayikas is meant for building

the capacity of the WSHGs to improve the quality and to provide Business Development Service to WSHGs and Federations at grassroots level. Till now they are managing their family as well as the SHG in a docile manner as they are unaware about their Fundamental Rights. Such a lacking is creating obstacles in the social, economical & political development of the women. With consideration to all these aspects, it was found that most of them are not fully aware about the structure and functioning of SHGs in a proper manner. Taking in to consideration all these findings, this training programme has been designed with the aim to make the participants well aware of SHG evolution, stages of development, financial aspects, employment creation, marketing, accounts, book keeping & conflict resolution. It would also cover other criteria like women empowerment, gender sensitisation, poverty, role of women in family, health related issues and many more. BISWA organised this training programme for Shakti Sahayika with duration of six months including four months of residential training and two

months of field exposure. It has been organised with the collaboration of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) , Bhubaneswar and extremely support from Mission Shakti, State Govt. of Orissa. In this first phase, BISWA will train eighty-five participants from two districts, Bargarh and Sambalpur. In the present course module three months have been covered so far. Micro Finance: Micro finance is the most important aspect of the training programme designed for Shakti Sahayikas. It also covers information on government schemes, model of micro finance, concept of SHG, objectives of SHG, advantages of SHG, why Women in SHG, rules of SHG, how to form a new group, how to organize a meeting & how to write a proceeding of a meeting. The training also imparts knowledge on how to maintain records, meeting register, individual ledger, prepare instalment schedules, calculation of interest (flat as well as reducing balance) while managing micro finance. The spirit of eagerness shown by the participants in the present batch is praiseworthy. They have also lodged noticeable improvement in their personality as well as attitude in these three months of their training.

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NGOs & institutes were invited from various parts of the country to attend the workshop. Mr. Jayant Swain, Manager Programmes participated in that programmes on behalf of BISWA.

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Odisha, participated in it as the Chief Guest and Sri Yogesh Bahadur Khurania, IPS, Inspector General of Police; Sambalpur participated in it as the Chief Speaker. Youths from all the ten districts of Sambalpur Zone came for participation in this Youth Talent Hunt Competition.

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Empowering Human Resources
progress and development are two sides of the same coin. A nation, a state or a society only can develop with its available or acquired resources. Further the resources are to be refined and groomed for ultimate uses. Human resources could be identified as the most important among all resources. As a matter of fact, the capability of human resources of a nation or society is the measurable parameter of its development. So there is always a thrust on developing human resources. Capacity building is a part of Human Resources Development (HRD) Exercises. Thus it is always need based and target oriented. We may say that it as good as redefining the HRD. We select a group of people to get performed an assigned work. It may be for a short term or a long term work. But the basis of selection obviously depends on nature of the work. Then the selected lot is oriented and empowered for the assigned target. This preparatory process is nothing but empowerment or building up capacity of that selected lot. This exercise is known as capacity building or training. Education and training are two different things but very often people used to confuse in differentiating them. Education is the primary layer on which the secondary layer of capacity building is applicable. So education is an integral part of human resource development, which could be furthered with any specialised training. Even if the training part is over and the assigned work is prolonged then there may be a need of further orientation to achieve the target.

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Capacity Building on Rural Marketing

A one day training programme on Rural Marketing was organised by BISWA in Jharsuguda District, Odisha on15th September 2009. Altogether 43 persons participated in the programme including District Manager, Branch Manager, and members from 4 prospective self help groups. The objectives of the programme was to create awareness and motivation on BISWA-ITC retail marketing business of consumable goods for rural poor as well as to educate them about the role and responsibility of the prospective SHG outlet facilities from Laxmipriya Micro Enterprise Pvt. Ltd., as it is meant for running such business at villages level. It was designed also to educate them on profit sharing, terms & conditions/ agreement formalities and action plan to start the business of their own. All the participants had learnt about the thematic inputs and were convinced on the small business development process. They were made committed to discuss the programme objectives among their respective members at the SHG meeting and come out with the proposal within three days to start the business through the concerned Branch Manager to Laxmipriya Marketing Private Limited. Mr. Ramesh Chandra Das, Project Manager, ITC Project participated in that programmes as a Resource Person on behalf of BISWA. Similarly it was organised with the same objectives in Bargarh district on 16th. September with participation of 55 persons, in Bolangir district on 19th September with participation of 36 persons, in Deogarh district on 22nd September with participation of 21 persons & in Sonepur district on 24th with participation 17 persons respectively.

The monthly meeting of Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Sambalpur district took place at Red Cross Bhawan on 17th September 2009 in the chairmanship of its chairperson Sri Goparanjan Dubey. He was flanked b y other two members of CWC, Dr Diptibala Patnaik, Consultant to BISWA and Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, Manager Public Relations BISWA. The Chairperson welcomed the members and the invited guests comprising Sri. Mochiram Majhi, Dist. Probation Officer, Sri. Prasant Kumar Kanoongo, SANYOG, Cuttack, foster parents Sri. Subash Naik & Mrs. Mamata Pattnaik with their child Sumedha, foster parents Sri Ananta Argal & Mrs.Dolendri Argal with their child Subhra, foster parents Dr. Kedar Nath Majhi and Dr. Ramamani Dalai with their child Abinash, Sri Bipin Bihari Behera, Secretary Rukmani Lath Bal Niketan, Chhachanpali Mr. A.K. Mahapatra, Senior Assistant, DSWO, Ms Lalita Chhura, Superintendent of SWADHAR and Ms. Bani Mahapatra, Counsellor, BISWA. The Committee found all the three children apparently happy with their foster parents. The foster parents were also found satisfied with their foster children. After observing all formalities under the JJ Amendment Act 2006 and Model Central Rule, 2007, these children were declared legally free for adoption. These orders were recorded formally in form no XIV signed by all the three members present there on
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that day. Copies of these orders alongwith other required documents were supplied to the foster parents and to the Adoption agencies with whom the foster parents may choose to register themselves for adopting their foster children with forwarding letters. The foster parents signed undertakings to that effect in form no. IX before the Chairperson & members of CWC. The meeting came to its end with vote of thanks from the chair.

Making Market Work for the Poor

participated in the National Workshop on "Making Market Work for the Poor" a Public Private Community Partnership (PPCP) approach held at Bhopal on 17 & 18 September 2009. The workshop was organized by Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihood Project in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme. The main objective of the workshop was to facilitate evolving a strategy and framework for developing a market system that reduces poverty and entails stimulating processes that generates momentum through PPCP approach. It was designed for continuously expanding, evolving and bringing more people into such market relationship that offers better and more secure return through improvements in the livelihoods by secured income and reduced vulnerability of the poor rural producers working in market based production system. Shri Gopal

The Samaj be Example for Others

Sri K.C.Malick, Chairman BISWA, said that the effort taken by "The Samaj" (a Daily News Paper in Odiya) to bring forward the talents in youth is appreciable and it should be an example for others. He was speaking to the occasion as the Guest of Honour in the function organised by the Sambalpur Edition of The Samaj on 18th September 2009 at Dr Radhanath Rath Community Centre. The function was organised on the occasion of completion of 90 years of publication of "The Samaj". It was presided over by Sri Samarendu Das, Branch Manager Sambalpur Edition of "The Samaj". Sri Prasanna Kumar Acharya, Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Government of
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Bhargava, Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development of Madhya Pradesh, inaugurated the workshop. He emphasized the need for developing specific market systems for rural products in opened up economies so that they can compete with the products of mega companies. He said that the participation of the rural poor community is possible only when mixed economy promotes pro-poor markets. The public-privatecommunity partnership (PPCP) can make the task easier. Among the other dignitaries attended the workshop and deliberated their views were; Shri R. Parsuram, Principal Secretary Rural Development, Sri M.L. Mehta, former Chief Secretary of Rajasthan , Ms Ruchi Pant, Programme Officer UNDP, Dr. J. Shettiger, Chairperson of India Centre for Public Policy New Delhi. Delegates from different public departments,
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