Chandragupta Institute of Management is organizing a nine-week management development programme for block education officers (BEOs) of Bihar. The BEOs are being apprised of the latest management tools and techniques so that they get better prepared to ensure proper implementation of Right To Education (RTE) Act.
The training programme titled “Managing in the post-RTE Era” started on August 1, with principal secretary, HRD, Anjani Kumar Singh inaugurating it for the first batch of BEOs. A total of 587 BEOs would be trained in 17 batches of 35 each. The programme would end on October 21.
During training, the topics being covered are implications of RTE Act for BEOs, changing paradigms of quality education in schools, planning, people’s management issues like communication, teamwork, motivation and leadership, managing data, information and time and stress management. The pedagogy used for this training is experimental and makes use of videos along with discussions, games, role plays and after class assignments to reinforce the concepts among participants.
The CIMP, with support from Unicef, has instituted a special learning resource centre (LRC) for BEOs, which has a collection of books, periodicals and videos pertaining to school education. The training day ends with an intensive, one-hour computer training module.
CIMP director V Mukund Das described the programme as the institute’s humble contribution towards ushering in a new era of a transformed Bihar. He said these programmes focus on modernizing work culture and changing the attitude of officers towards common masses.