AN EVALUATIVE STUDY OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES ON PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTE CONDUCTED BY EXTENSION TRAINING CENTRE, JORHAT
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2018
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India is a vast country with many states that have a population of more than 1.3
billion. Democratically governing a country of this size necessitates several tiers of
government. Keeping this in view Panchayati Raj Institutions have been introduced under the
73rd Amendment Act of the Constitution of India. Accordingly in view of the historic
Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, the Assam Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 was enacted
and came to effect from 5th May, 1994. Preparing the Panchayat members for their new roles
as local decision-makers, calls for education and training on a massive scale, for which
appropriate tailor made training content, methods and tools are needed.
The study was conducted with a view to measure the effectiveness of training
programmes conducted by Extension Training Centre, Jorhat and to delineate the factors
affecting training transfer by PRI members and the resultant transfer outcome. A purposive
cum random sampling technique was followed for selection of total 120 nos. of respondents.
Only 2 districts namely Jorhat and Golaghat were selected for the present study.
In this study, first a database of the training programmes conducted by ETC, Jorhat
for 3 years (2013-14 to 2015-16) was developed. The database of the training programme
revealed that maximum numbers of training programmes were conducted during the period
2013-14 (140 nos.), followed by 2015-16 (77 nos.) of which majority (51.77%) of the
trainees were female and belonged to OBC category (44.26%). Maximum (72.22%) numbers
of training programmes were conducted for the trainees of Jorhat district and also majority
(51.04%) of the training programmes were conducted on campus.
The findings of this study revealed that majority (72.50%) of PRI members were in
between 31 to 50 years and 11.67 per cent of PRI members were graduate followed by 40.83,
per cent of PRI members belonged to OBC caste. Majority (56.67%) of the trainees were
female with the experience of working in PRI ranging from 4 to 8 years (73.33%). Majority
(84.17%) of the trainees were belonged to nuclear family. A healthy percentage (74.17%) of
the PRI members possessed moderate level leadership behaviour. The study also showed that
majority (78.33%) of the respondents possessed moderate level cosmopoliteness and have
moderate level decision making ability.
Regarding the effectiveness of training programmes in terms of perceived usefulness,
knowledge gained and skill developed as a result of training programme, majority (75.83%)
of the trainees opined that the training was moderately useful. On the other hand, 75.00 per
cent trainees perceived that there was moderate gain in knowledge as result of the training
programme and there were 77.50 per cent of the trainees perceived that the skill was
moderately developed. Moreover, in terms of its perceived usefulness, the topic on
“Community participation in Swachh Bharat Mission” (WMS= 2.79) was ranked “first”.In
terms of perceived knowledge gained, the topic on “Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana”
(WMS= 2.71) was ranked “first”. Besides, effectiveness of training programme regarding its
perceived skill developed, the topic, “Panchayati raj institution accountant software” (WMS=
2.90) was given “first” rank by the respondents.
Moreover, “peer support” (WMS= 4.67) and “Strategic link” (WMS= 4.67), followed
by “Supervisor support” (WMS= 4.64) and “General work environment” (WMS= 4.64) were
considered to be major factors of training transfer and “Community participation under
Swachh Bharat Mission reduces open defecation” (WMS= 4.68) followed by “MIS under
MGNREGS improves decision making ability and communication” (WMS=4.68), “RKVY
increases total production and reduces yield gap of important crops” (WMS= 4.68), “role
played by GP in increasing livestock production and management increases nutritional status
of the villagers” (WMS= 4.63), were considered to be the major training outcome of the
training programmes.
Findings of correlation analysis showed that age (r = 0.15*), work experience (r =
0.21**) and decision making ability (r = 0.19**) had positive and significant relationship
with effectiveness of training programmes. However, It can be further seen from the analysis
that the relationship between leadership behaviour (r= -0.15*) and effectiveness of the
training programme were negatively significant.