The Eighth Five Year Plan of the National Informatics Centre is a blue print of action for the Organization. Each Leaf of NICPLAN presents an extract from the Plan to provide the Reader with an insight into just how the Organization visualizes the future. In this issue we present the Government Informatics Training (GIT) Programme.
Investments in hardware and software and the creation of databases alone will not bring in a change in work culture in the Government. All crucial officers and staff in each department of the Central Government, State Governments and District Administrations have to be trained adequately. As the number and diversity of training is very large, this can be carried out effectively only if the following three projects are implemented:
i. Central Government Informatics Training Programme. ii. State Government Informatics Training Programme. iii. CAI/CAL Research and Service Centre.
Already, NIC is implementing the GIT Programme in the Central Government by training 5,000 officers and staff every year.
During 1990-91, the GIT programme has been enlarged to cover State Governments and District Administrations. For this, all the NIC Regional Centres and State Centres are being mobilized for imparting such training. Training programmes have been designed in such a way that officials at different levels can attend the programmes as per their working requirements.
Keeping in view the large requirement of the Central and State Governments, it is felt that this much of training is not adequate. It is therefore proposed to train about 10,000 officers and staff at different levels from 1991-92 onwards. To do this, a new thrust to the training activities will be given. To meet the additional load of training as projected, it is proposed to acquire training hardware for hands-on training, course material documents, audio visual equipment and computer-aided instruction hardware and software. The GIT Programme in the Centre and the States would call for an investment of Rs 4 crores during the Eighth Five Year Plan.
Computer-aided instructions and computer-aided learning cannot be avoided when mass training has to be combined with quality teaching and research programmes. Such a laboratory would cost a capital of Rs 2 crores.