District Centre, Bathinda

Mission

To undertake training programmes for government officers/officials of the district, sub-division and block and other activities such as research and evaluation, as per requirements of the government departments to promote good governance in the district.

Objectives:

1. To organize subject-specific training to the officers/employees of the state government departments and their associate bodies to update their knowledge
2. To enhance the effectiveness and bring improvement in the qualitative standards of government employees working in the district through activities of training and research
3. To create interest amongst government employees for public and social welfare works
4. To create awareness about new policies and programmes of different departments of the state government

Spectrum of Activities

1. Administrative Research
2. Administrative Reforms
3. Training and Capacity Building
4. Long and Short term Training Programmes
5. Conferences, Workshops, Seminars
6. Need-based Consultancy Services

Activities carried out so far

1. Training in general management and soft skills for various department of state government in Bathinda district
2. Training in Soft Skills and Financial Management to Principals/Head Masters of Bathinda, Mansa and Muktsar District
3. Training programme for elected repersentative of Panchayati Raj Institutions of Bathinda and Mansa District
4. Training on RTS and RTI for the employees of government departments in Bathinda District
5. Training programmes for Gram Sabhas at the village level of Bathinda District
6. Documentations/Publications
a) Sangat Darshan Programmes of Bathinda district
b) Publications of quarterly News Letter
c) Publicity to press for all the major events organized by the centre
7. Applied Research Programmes: A number of research projects have been taken up which relate to problems in local areas.

Recent Activities

Training on Human Rights

A three-day training programme on human rights was organised at District Centre Bathinda with the support of Institute's Centre for Law, Justice and Governance. Deputy Commissioner Bathinda Shri Kamal Kishor Yadav inaugurated the programme. He said that training on protection of human rights is the need of the hour. These programmes can make the people aware of laws and facts about human rights and to protect the human rights we have to start from ourselves so that violations of human rights can be prevented. He appealed to the participants to take the message of this programme to maximum people in order to achieve the real objective of this programme.
At the occasion, Shri J R Singla, incharge of Centre for Law, Justice and Governance gave detailed information about human rights laws and their importance Shri Mandeep Singh, Project Coordinator at District Centre Bathinda informed the participants various aspects of human rights such as origin and development of human rights, Human Rights Act 1993, Indian Constitution and human rights, human rights and various sections of society, etc. would be discussed. In first session of programme, the resource person Shri Raghuvir Singh, associate professor Baba Farid Law College Faridkot delivered informative lecture on 'origin and development of human rights'. In second session, Shri Arun Kumar, associate professor Punjabi University Regional Centre Bathinda, in his lecture provided immense information about Indian Constitution and Human rights and Human Rights and various sections of society. Shri Rajan Garg, president Bar Council Bathinda and Shri Iqbaljit Singh Kingra, district attorney Bathinda were also present with their teams.

RTS Act 2011 and RTI Act 2005 for Representatives of PRIs at Block level

Seminars about Right to Service Act 2011 and Right to Information Act 2005 were organized by Disrict Centre Bathinda of MGSIPAP for panches/sarpanches, block samiti members and zila parishad members on 9,11 and 15 November at BDPO offices Bathinda, Talwandi Sabo and Nathana respectively.
MGSIPAP District Project Coordinator Shri Mandeep Singh gave information about MGSIPAP to representatives of PRIs and threw light on aims of these seminars. He told that MGSIPAP has started a campaign to make the representatives of PRIs of different blocks of District Bathinda aware of Right to Service Act and Right to Information Act. Shri Vinod Kumar Bansal, resource person from DC Office Bathinda spoke in detail about Right to Service and told about services covered under this act and also about the timeframe of rendering the services done and the concerned officials. He further said that 67 services of different departments which are directly related to common man are covered in this act.

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