Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur virtually inaugurated the training organised for 41 VLWs/MPWs of the Rural Development Department of Ladakh on January 3.

The five-day training-cum-exposure visit was organised by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) at Hyderabad.

Thanking NIRDPR Hyderabad for hosting and providing training to participants from Ladakh, RK Mathur shared that there could not be a better place for the participants from Ladakh to get training at such a premier institute. He added that the elected representatives who had earlier undergone training at the institute were satisfied with the inputs provided by NIRDPR.

Stating that the employees of the Rural Department did not get proper training in the past before the Gram Panchayat elections that were held in Ladakh for the first time, he said that the UT Administration is striving to make the Gram Panchayat deliver as per the responsibility assigned to them through training and exposure visits. He added that the UT Administration has transferred works of over 20 departments to the Gram Panchayat and allocated Rs 1 crore each as block development fund to all the 31 blocks to make the Gram Panchayat active and efficient so that they deliver the benefits as per the needs of the people.

He also expressed hope that this exposure training would help the employees of the Rural Department work more efficiently with productive outputs.

Requesting NIRDPR Hyderabad to train 193 VLWs in separate batches, R K Mathur shared that the UT Administration would provide training to all the 1,700 elected representatives and government employees in the future to overcome the backlog of development and catch up with the rest of the country as envisioned by the Prime Minister.