Increase number of trainees to 4,000 CM suggests SICB

KARFECTAR, 30 April [IPR]: Chief Minister Pawan Chamling, who is also the Chairperson of the State Institute of Capacity Building (SICB) Society, chaired the 2nd meeting of the SICB Society Governing Board here at the SICB mini conference hall today.
During the meet Member Secretary/ Chief Administrator, SD Dhakal made a presentation and placed the annual report of SICB for the year 2011-12 and also presented various agenda for discussion and made a demonstration of Management Information System.
As per the information received from Chief Administrator of SICB, Mr Dhakal, the Chief Minister during the closed door Governing Board meet suggested that the number of students availing training from the institution should be raised up to 3000 to 4000, which at present is up to 1800 to 2000.
He also assured full cooperation from the government to the Institution and assured that adequate fund will also be provided for the institution.
Mr. Chamling further added that work culture in the students who are being trained in this institution should be developed and counselling should be given. He appealed to the institution and its Chief Administrator to give more attention to the students of rural areas to build their capacity and make them skilled and self reliant individuals.
Various plans and schemes for the Institution were also passed and approved during the meet.
The establishment of a full fledged State Institute of Capacity Building at Karfectar with the purpose of imparting training and transfer of knowledge and building stronger capacities of the unemployed youth is perceived with a visionary intent, the Chief Minister added.
The annual report of 2011-12 which was presented during the meet had various activities of SICB from 01 April 2011 to 31 March 2012
The following are some of the main activities of the institution during the past one year.
MP Lok Sabha, PD Rai, Chairman BASIX- India, Vijay Mahajan, South Shore Bank USA, Mrs. Marie and Chief Executive Officer of Edelwis group of Finance, Rajesh Shah visited the Institute and examined the various activities going on therein.
Training of Trainers for selected Master Trainers and Assistant Trainers of Livelihood Schools was conducted to familiarize them with Management Information System to track the record of all the trainees of Livelihood Schools for three consecutive years.
The following livelihood schools were opened, which are Lachen- Mangan Livelihood School for Cooking and Catering ( Hotel Management) inaugurated on 02 July 2011, Martam- Rumtek Livelihood School for  Organic farming was inaugurated on 15 July 2011, Gnathang Machong Livelihood School for Motor Mechanic (Automobile Repairing) was inaugurated on 24 July 2011, Soreng- Chakhung Livelihood School for Construction trade (Plumber) was inaugurated on 27 July 2011, Gyalshing-Bernyak Livelihood School for Security Guard trade was inaugurated on 01 August 2011.
Chief Administrator, Mr Dhakal visited the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) in Lalmati, Guwahati, Assam to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the officials of IIE to get registered as partner to conduct Entrepreneur Development Programme (EDP) and Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programme (ESDP) for the trainees of all Livelihood School on 11 August 2011.
An orientation session for officers and staff of SICB was held at the Institute regarding updating of official website (www.sicbsikkim.org) of the Institute by Cyber InfoTech, Namchi.
The Trainees for apparel design/dress design course under West Pendam Livelihood School were taken for a month long Industrial training at Kolkata
The trainees of Dzongu Livelihood School were provided On Job Training (OJT) to bestow them tangible knowledge as Heads on Experience at Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Sikkim Centre, Tadong for four days.
Second meeting of State Board of Livelihood Schools was held on 16 December 2011 under the chairmanship of HRDD Minister, NK Pradhan in the conference hall of Directorate of Capacity Building, Khadi Bhawan in the capital.
MP Lok Sabha, PD Rai visited the Institute on 02 February 2012 and interacted with the undergoing trainees of Driver cum Tour Guide, Beautician and Chef/Cook.
Under the chairmanship of Chief Administrator a day long workshop cum coordination meeting of all Centre heads, Master Trainers of all Livelihood school was held on 07 February 2012.