Visakhapatnam: The Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam (IIM-V) would soon launch the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) programme under the aegis of the Union ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship.
IIM-Visakhapatnam is one of the few IIMs to get this prestigious programme. The nearly Rs 6 crore capacity-building-cum-consultancy project from the ministry involves training 76 functionaries (fellows) in public policy and skill development and to enable them to work as an understudy to the collector and the district magistrate in 76 districts across the country.
MGNF is a two-year academic programme with an in-built component of on-ground practical experience with the district administration. It seeks to impart training in a blended academic programme that provides both academic inputs and requires a field immersion at the district level.
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The key objective of the programme is to understand and contribute to the creation of a district level ecosystem to support skill development.
IIM-V director Prof M Chandrasekhar said the fellows would be paid by the Union government a monthly stipend of Rs 50,000 in the first year and Rs 60,000 per month in the second year. Prof Chandrasekhar added that IIM-V would soon receive the communique regarding the exact states allocated to IIM-V. “Being another prestigious project awarded to the institute, it would help IIM-V to contribute in its own modest way to Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India). The faculty would guide the fellows in achieving the pre-set objectives of the programme at the field level,” said Prof Chandrasekhar.
In the course of their training, the fellows will work under the close supervision of state skill development missions and will spend time and effort in understanding skilling challenges and gaps in the district. They are expected to enrich skilling programmes by bringing in fresh thinking to local planning, execution, community interaction and outcome management.
Designed under the Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP), the fellowship is expected to address the challenge of non-availability of personnel for implementation of various programmes at the national, state and district levels.
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