Capacity building of officers of Haryana town country planning

To enhance efficiency, Haryana Town and Country Planning department has formulated policy parameters for capacity building of its officers.

"This was necessitated by the realisation that with the pace of technological advancement, technical knowledge acquired by technical officers like assistant town planners, district town planners, senior town planners, and chief town planners is required to be updated," a spokesman of the department said in a release.

Under the parameters, the capacity of officers would be built in the administration of various Acts required for planned urbanisation in the state.

The department regulates urban development and controls haphazard and unplanned growth in and around towns in accordance with the provisions of various Acts.
 

The advent of information technology has brought about significant changes in office working, data processing, decision making and overall management. However, optimum use of information technology and latest urban planning techniques can be achieved only by frequent capacity building of technical manpower, he added.

Technical knowledge of officers deputed at departments like Urban Local Bodies, HSIIDC, Urban Estates, Housing Board, HUDA, MC, Gurugram, and Faridabad, GMDA, including Chandigarh Administration, is also required to be supplemented with applied planning, information technology inputs, engineering or architectural and managerial skills, he said.

The fields in which officers are required to be trained include Information Technology, Urban Planning (Building Parameters and Disaster Management), Administrative aspects, Right to Information Act, Drawing and Disbursement Officers (DDO) and Service Rules, he said.

The training programmes could be arranged at entry level, mid-term and at professional level for technical officers that is town planners and architect as well as non-technical or administrative officers, including director, joint director and chief accounts officer to be arranged within the country or abroad, he said.