Training programme under IWMP begins

Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR,  Feb 28: Eight-day Capacity Building Training Programme for Self Help Groups, formed under Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), began  at Bandhole, tehsil Latti in Udhampur district.
Being conducted by Destitute And Handicapped Welfare Association (DAHWA), a UNESCO awardee NGO, the training programme has been  sponsored by State Level Nodal Agency for Integrated Wat-ershed Management Program-me, Department of Rural Development.  The objective of this comprehensive programme is to promote skill development among the people residing in the watershed areas so that the poor, BPL, SC/ST, landless and assetless households can be provided sustainable livelihood.
The expert team, led by DAHWA chairperson Surat Singh Sumbria,  comprised of Rajender Kumar Raina, expert Sericulture; K D Kurhan, expert Dairy Poultry; Naresh Sharma, expert Fisheries; Devender Singh, Agriculture expert besides social mobilizers IWMP Milap Singh and Kirpal Singh.
The camp was inaugurated by Sarpanch Beyant Gupta.