annexures - Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Chapter - 14 Training, Hrd And Capacity Building14.5 TRAINING NEEDSTraining needs of skilled manpower are met through short term training programmes ofduration of a few days, weeks and months. But training can be imparted only if the trainee hasthe necessary educational attainment.Regarding the projects that are under execution, after it has been commissioned, it is necessarythat staff with proper training and experience is in place for O&M of assets. The responsibility ofoperation and maintenance of STPs and main pumping stations should rest with the contractorwho supplied the plant, for 5 years after commissioning of the project. It should be ensured thatthe contractors/suppliers of equipments deploy properly trained and experienced staff for thiswork. Even if contractors and suppliers are bound by the contract to operate and maintain theequipment they supplied or erected, they should be required toi. Impart training to the identified personnel of the agency that owns the project and hasthe responsibility for its proper functioning.ii.Provide operating manuals of the equipment installed.14.6 EXPERIENCE NEEDSThese needs are met by the personnel working on real assignments. Those in charge ofpersonnel management need to ensure that the needed experience is available to them with inthe organisation.14.7 FULFILLING MANPOWER NEEDS –MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT PLANThe State Government, in the light of the state of degradation of their water resources, inparticular of their rivers, should prepare a plan of capacity building and manpowerdevelopment. It should consist of identifying academic disciplines in which personnel withpostgraduate degree, undergraduate degree, diploma and certificate are needed and thenumbers in each. The personnel that would, after education and training constitute, a pool ofhuman resource that is equipped to handle the items of work, mentioned in these guidelines,including O&M should be identified. They should be sent to undergo suitable educationalprogrammes and training programmes. A list of institutions of higher education with theacademic disciplines where the personnel can be sent for education should be prepared.The number of people at various levels required for such projects should be estimated and thepersonnel should be posted on appropriate jobs.Training need identification is a continuous process and in the identified subject areas traininginstitutions can be requested to develop training programmes.It is the responsibility of those in charge of Human Resource Development in the States – in thegovernment and local bodies – to ensure that they have the necessary manpower resourceswith needed educational attainments, training and experience for undertaking the work arisingout of the programme of pollution abatement of rivers.90