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POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN RURAL MANAGEMENT

  YASHADA is introducing a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management

(PGDRM)

Introduction-

YASHADA, a premier training institute of India, has been conducting training, research and consultancy in the field of Development Administration for the last 40 years. YASHADA is also a National Resource Centre for many of the schemes of Government of India and also many UN organisations. So far YASHADA has conducted short-term courses for in service government personnel. However since last year it has introduced diploma courses in partnership with academic bodies of international repute.

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The YASHADA Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management is a one-year course, which is designed to impart a mix of practical as well as managerial skills and personality development inputs. It also aims at improving the understanding of the economic, social and political environment in order to improve the ways and means through which managers at all levels will be able to deliver better services. The training and examination have been made flexible enough to enable those working to continue with their jobs even while taking the course.

This course will not only hone skills in managing men and money and providing services to rural India, it will enable participants to understand how rural India functions, how people think and how to work with them. Learning in this course will involve a healthy mix of inputs from senior academics and persons with long and successful experience from the field, from persons who have been involved in key decision-making tasks in the Government. It provides a unique opportunity to work with those engaged in the task of rural management.

Course USP- It would

·  Sensitize managers to experiences in development administration in different states: and learn from replicable models

·  Put such experience in overall context of policy formation

·  To demystify policy and learn strategies to improve implementation

·  Enable managers to learn better skills for resource management

·  Improve skills in financial management, accounting

·  Enable managers to better understand organizational behaviour and personnel management skills

Course Schedule-

Course Structure-

•Academic Inputs- 10 modules conducted through written lessons of distance learning supplemented by contact sessions for 34 days. Two contact sessions, the first in September 2007 and the second in January 2008 shall be conducted in YASHADA. These sessions are compulsory.

•Internship- 2 weeks as attachment to various organisations along with one seminar paper to be submitted by each participant as an individual assignment. This would be scheduled in June 2008.These too are compulsory.

Modules-

There are 10 modules conducted through distance learning. Each module is divided into a number of topics and sub-topics for better understanding.

•Rural Environment

•Farm Services Management

•Agri Business Management

•Economics for Rural Management

•Co-operative and Collective Action

•Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

•Managerial Accounting and Finance

•Marketing Management

•Management of Rural Services and Institutions

•Research Method

Duration and Exam-

Minimum course duration is one year. However after completing contact sessions, seminar papers and attachments students can take examination within a period of 5 years after registration.

Attachment as On-site Working Inputs- with a Panchayati Raj Institution and/or an Agri-business Industry.

Who can enroll -

The candidate should be

A graduate in any discipline from a recognized University

                                  AND

Fluent in written and spoken English

                                 AND

Preferably with some experience of working in rural sector.

                                OR

Senior In-service Officers working in Panchayati Raj Institutions, Government Departments, Elected representatives, Professionals, Consultants, NGO representatives, Rural activists and any student who wants to pursue a career in Rural Management.

Enrollment-

A candidate shall enroll with

Director, State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), YASHADA

Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration,

Raj Bhavan Complex, Baner Road,

Pune 411 007

Phone: 020-25608126/171.

Website: www.yashada.org

The course will begin in October for candidates registering in September.

Last date for sending nominations is 25^th September 2007.