District Centre, Hoshiarpur

Mission

To meet the challenges of good governance , management, development and poverty alleviation in the areas falling under Hoshiarpur District through research, training, case studies and different modes of capacity building.

Objectives:

1. To promote quality of governance, development and management in government organizations through various research, reforms and training activities
2. To promote subject specific trainings in the Kandi Area development programmes
3. To effectively guide implementation of projects and reforms
4. To make government departments and their officials aware about new policies and programmes
5. To create interest and awareness amongst government employees for public and social welfare works
6. To promote work ethics at work places in the Government Organizations.

Spectrum of Activities

1.Administrative Research
2.Administrative Reforms
3.Training and Capacity Building
4.Preparation of Case-studies based upon Best Practices
5.Conferences , Workshops , Seminars
6.Need-based Consultancy Services

Activities carried out so far

1. Training on Administrative Research & Reforms for 23 district level officers in Hoshiarpur district
2. Training in general management and behavioral skills to 132 newly promoted Principals (2 Programmes) in two districts i.e. Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur
3. Training in soft skills and Accounts to School Heads to 212 School Head Masters (4 Programmes) in two districts i.e. Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur
4. Training Programme on Integrated District Plan for 72 district level officers in Hoshiarpur district
5. Training in Accounts and Fianance to government and School Staff to 760 persons in 21 batches in Hoshiarpur district
6. Taining on RTI Act to 971 persons by organizing Seven training programmes in Hoshiarpur district
7. Other Programmes: 35 other training programmes were organized and attended by 2128 persons on various subjects of topical importance in the district
8. Training on Revenue Matters to the Police Officers of Hoshiarpur District: Training to 70 Officers through three-days training programmes
9. Documentation: Four Administrative Research Papers prepared for reforms in government departments
10.Applied Research Programmes: Apart from training, administrative research, case-studies, resource persons training and other capacity building programmes are being undertaken
11.Identification of individual trainers/ guest faculty/ experts in the specific domains
a) Forty six Subject Experts/ Resource Persons have been identified in various fields and directory has been prepared
b) Prepared directory of NGOs and Youth Clubs working in the district
c) A working Committee of NGOS is being constituted

Recent Activities

Workshop on soft skills and ethics in governance

On 11 November 2011, District Centre Hoshiarpur organized a one-day workshop on soft skills such as motivation, stress management and time management”. Shri Surjit Singh, PCS (Retd.), District Programme Coordinator welcomed the officials from different departments and threw light on the purpose of the workshop and appealed to adopt soft skills and work with full transparency, integrity and efficiency. He termed the workshop as one important measure of administrative reforms.

In the first and second session, Shri Jaswant Singh Saini resource person, spoke on motivation and ethics and values in good governance; Mrs. Sangita Shonik, resource person, spoke about 'Stress Management and Time Management'.

Seminar on Right to Service Act 2011

On 18 November 2011, a seminar on above subject was organized at Sawami Sarvanand Giri Hall at Punjab University Regional Centre Hoshiarpur. Shri S C Aggarwal, IAS, Chief Secretary Punjab inaugurated the seminar. Shri Deepinder Singh, IAS, Deputy Commissioner Hoshiarpur shed light on the purpose of organizing the seminar. He said that the implementation of this act has ushered in a revolution in administrative reforms and that the people have responded positively to this act. Shri Banke Bihari, Resource Person spoke about the provisions of Right to Service Act 2011.

The Chief Secretary intervened and said that the government has covered 67 services for the people to get their work done in the prescribed time and the act will help in solving many problems of the people. He added that to implement the act effectively levels of the government is trying to meet the lack of staff and commission has been set up to keep an eye on the implementation. The Chief Secretary gave answers to questions put by elected representatives who were given ample opportunity to express their views about this act in detail. The district Hoshiarpur project coordinator of MGSIPAP, Shri Surjit Singh, PCS (Retd.) thanked Shri S C Aggarwal, Chief Secretary Punjab, for his contribution for successful initiation and completion of the seminar and said that Right to Service Act 2011 would revolutionize the settling of problems in administrative area.

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