Training Programmes
As per the decision taken by the Governing Council in its 20th meeting, we forward herewith the progress report for the month of August 2006 for your kind perusal.

In-Campus Programmes
•	During the month, 19 In-Campus training programmes were conducted with 545 participants. This included 2 customised programmes on agricultural financing for rural branch managers of Union Bank of India. Two more programmes of similar nature for Rural Branch Managers of Union Bank of India are scheduled to be conducted during September 2006. The average participation during the month worked out to 28.7. With this, the total number of In-Campus programmes conducted during the year 2006-07 stood at 71 with a participation of 1817 (Average 25.5) as against 74 programmes with 1569 participants (average 21.2 per programme) during the corresponding period of the last year.
On-location Programmes
•	A new training programme on Bamboo Cultivation, Trade and Utilisation was conducted during the month at Allahabad. It was attended by 20 participants.

Infrastructure Hiring

Infrastructure support was provided to PATH, an international NGO working in the health sector, for conducting a training programme for NGO representatives at BIRD.

Faculty Development

During the month, Shri P N Satyaprasad, Faculty Member attended DTS and DOT training programmes at Hyderabad.

Others

•	The undersigned and Mrs S Vijayalakshmi, FM, who attended the Capacity Building Programme at CIDT, UK, shared the key learning points from the programme with all Faculty Members at the Institute. The FMs have also been advised to chalk out a strategy to implement the action plan prepared by the undersigned for making improvements in the training programme evaluation methodology, day-to-day schedules, Reading Materials, etc. A sensitization session on Total Quality Management is also envisaged for being conducted for the benefit of all Faculty Members and other officers of BIRD.
•	A Consultancy Cell has been constituted in the Institute with three faculty members as its members. Though the work relating to consultancy will be attended to by all FMs as per their experience and expertise, the officers identified for the Cell will be scouting for consultancies by liaisoning with the likely clients and paying special attention to this work. This is likely to give a boost to consultancy related work in the institute.
•	Two of our faculty members have proceeded to Kalinga Gramya Bank, Cuttack to make a presentation on the recommendations of our study teams on Amalgamation of RRBs in the state of Orissa. Similar presentations are expected to be made in other states shortly. This consultancy assignment is supplementary to the Consultancy provided by us earlier to their sponsor bank viz., UCO Bank.
•	Faculty meetings were held on two occasions during the month. Important issues like scouting for consultancy assignments, marketing of training programmes, Internal Quality Audit, etc. were discussed in the meeting.
•	Keeping in view NABARD HO instructions, to its Regional Offices and Training Establishments and also that all except three of the officers of the Institute are from NABARD, we have introduced a five-day week work schedule for the staff in BIRD from 14 September 2006 for the training programmes, the five day schedule is implemented from the week commencing from 28 August 2006.

Key Activities of BIRD

The information on key activities of BIRD in the format prescribed by HRDD, NABARD.

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