India offers entrepreneurial skills training to Afghan professionals

Afghan professionals are getting trained in development of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills through ITEC fellowship programme in National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs.

The programme undertakes and enhances management skills in project development, gender development and planning.

The gender development planning will help in improving economic, social and physiological status of Afghan women.

At present, there are five Afghan professionals undergoing training at NEISBUD. The training module helps the Afghans in planning and evaluating different projects.

Mohammed Fahim, who works in the Ministry of Finance in Afghanistan, said such training will help them in rebuilding their war-torn country.

"The country is devastated in the last three decades and for the reconstruction of the country we need skills for the management of the projects. Ultimately this type of programme helps us in enhancing our capacities, abilities to manage the projects efficiently and effectively and that's why I am here," said Mohammed Fahim Nazihi, General Project Management, Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan.

Muhammad Tahir Toofan, who works in the Ministry of Education, says human resource development is significant for his country.

"We learn so many techniques especially in conducting training in succession planning and how to build the capacities of the employees and how to use human resource effectively in daily business season. In my country more focus in the human resources is in the institutional areas and people are not considering a lot in the businesses in entrepreneurships", said Muhammad Tahir Toofan, General directorate, Human Resource specialists, Ministry of Education, Afghanistan.

NEISBUD is run by the Government of India and has students from some 36 countries.

"The role of Indian government in reconstruction of Afghanistan has been focused on training also because they believe that human resource development can do much better things in any country for developing their economy etc. and they are also giving concession for Afghan people under ITEC and SCAAP programme," said Dr. R. R. Singh, Director for Training and Training officer, NEISBUD.

Skill development and training for professionals from Afghanistan will help them to deal with various issues in the country.

A proposal was agreed upon to send four-five trainers to Afghanistan to train thousands of people and develop a master trainer and the master trainer can help in imparting further training.

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