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STATE AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND EXTENSION TRAINING INSTITUTE (SAMETI)
The State Agricultural Extension Management and Training Institutes (SAMETI)
would be strengthened by way of providing training managerial and equipments,
communication support, programme cost SAMETIs are proposed to be autonomous
institutes with greater flexibility in structural and operational aspects.
Key functions of SAMETI
• To provide capacity building support in Extension Management
related areas to the extension functionaries both from public and private
sector.
• To provide consultancy in the areas like project planning,
appraisal, implementation etc:
• Develop and promote the application of management tools
for improving the effectiveness of Agricultural Extension services through
better management of human and material resources.
• Organize need based training programmes for middle
level and grass-root level agricultural extension functionaries: and
• Develop modules on Management, Communication, Participatory
Methodologies etc, as a sequel to the feedback from training programmes.
Annexure – V
STATE LEVEL INTER DEPARTMENTAL WORKING GROUP
(IDWG)
In pursuance of the number of mechanisms built into the project design
and to ensure effective coordination among the departments like agriculture,
animal husbandry, fisheries, horticulture, soil conservation etc. it
is proposed to constitute a state level inter departmental working group
under the chairmanship of the Agriculture Production Commissioner/ Secretary
agriculture with the following composition:
Composition:
S. No.
1. Agriculture Production Commissioner/
Secretary Agriculture Chairman
2. Secretary (Finance) Member
3. Secretary (Fisheries) Member
4. Secretary (Horticulture) Member
5. Secretary (Rural Development) Member
6. Secretary (Animal Husbandry) Member
7. Secretary (Soil Conservation) Member
8. Secretary (Women Development) Member
9. Secretaries of related departments
(wherever necessary) Member
10. Vice Chancellor (s) of SAU(s) Member
11. Secretary (Agri.)/ Deputy Secretary (Agri.) Member
Secretary
In departments like horticulture, soil conservation etc, where separate
secretaries do not exist, director of the concerned departments may act
as a member on the interdepartmental group.
Key functions of IDWG
• To provide a mechanism for interactions with the Technology
Dissemination Management Committee (TDMC) of the DAC, GOI, guide the
human resource development activity and to monitor the district level
technology dissemination programme.
• To oversee and support Agricultural Extension Research
activities being undertaken by ATMA and to make policy interventions
on inter departmental matters including issues related to Women in Agriculture
and co-ordination thereof.
• To promote and establish integrated approach in Transfer
of technology at state, division and district level by agriculture and
line departments.
• To establish effective linkages with different line
departments, marketing, input and credit institutions, NGOs, Private/
Corporate sector to promote large scale extension reforms.
• To internalize new concepts and institutional arrangement
successfully demonstrated by the ATMAs; and
• To deal with any other policy issue related to implementation
of the project, which emerges from time to time.
A Project Implementation Cell (PIC) would be established in each States
with the office of the Agriculture Production Commissioner (APC)/ Secretary
Agriculture/ Director Agriculture. This PIC would monitor project activities
being carried out in each pilot district and ensure that project funds
released to the States are included within state budget.