Kochi: A three-day Capacity Building Programme for the staff of AMRUT Kerala, including the newly recruited Engineers and Overseers, at the mission cities to speed up the implementation of AMRUT project was organised jointly by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) and the State Mission Management Unit at Ashirbhavan, Kochi from 24–26 September 2018. Inaugurating the training session, the Mission Director Smt. R. Girija IAS pointed out the need to accelerate the implementation of AMRUT in such a way that all the 1001 projects (including subprojects) are completed on or before March 2020. Sri Joy Elamon, Director, KILA, in his address encouraged the participants to utilize the platform effectively by acquiring knowledge and expertise from the faculty invited to handle the sessions in the next three days. The first session by Dr. V. Suresh, President of Good Governance Foundation, introduced the participants to the pace of urbanization across the world and India, the challenges it poses and the key solutions. The major urban schemes and its...
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