Training to build NGO efficacy gets underway

AMEET OBEROI 
GANGTOK, 13 Mar: A 5-day training on ‘Enhancing Efficacy of NGO’s through CBWE’ organised by the Central Board for Workers Education [CBWE] for the North East Region, Non Government Organizations’ started on 12 March and will continue till 16 March at the conference hall of the Central Public Works Department, situated at Baluwakhani, Gangtok.
The inaugural session of the training session had Principal, Tadong Government College Dr. MP Kharel as the chief guest along with PT Sherpa [ex- regional manager State Bank of India also the resource person] and Dr. Shanti Chettri [coordinator, Sikkim Panchayat, Mahila avam Yuva Abhiyan, Department of RMDD].
Chief guest Dr. Kharel addressing the participants of different NGO’s of NE region stated that Government alone cannot serve the peoples’ need and what the government provides or initiates is also not enough considering the holistic development of the society until and unless peoples’ participation is not met.
NGO’s currently are very close to the grass root people and are also catering employment for the unemployed in various ways and means and in some cases NGOs’ have also turned out to be competitors to the government in various issues, added Dr. Kharel.  He went on to add that ‘acquiring knowledge is not only enough until the knowledge gained is utilized properly for the upliftment and betterment of the down trodden’.
Dr. Kharel requested the representatives of different NGOS’ present to serve the commune selflessly. He mentioned that, everybody holds potential but the said potential must be used for the upliftment of the poor and needy, only then the true potential of oneself is recognized and valued. Likewise, he expressed hope that the training initiated would be enlightening and the participants will learn a lot and thereby serve the society as needed.
Program coordinator cum senior education officer CBWE, AK Chakraborty during the inaugural session addressed the participants on the aim, objective of the training and also requested the participants to grab the best of knowledge availed considering the future development of their NGO’S in their respective states as well.
The training has a total of 30 participants from different states of the NE region like 06 from Manipur, 06 from Teensukhia, 06 from Guwahati and 12 from Sikkim, but interestingly the number of women representatives compared to earlier training programmes has increased to five.