NEC to tie up with NPC

SHILLONG, JUNE 18: The North Eastern Council (NEC) and the National Productivity Council (NPC) have agreed on a tie up venture in the area of capacity building and evaluation of projects. Dr Amita Prasad, IAS Director General, National Productivity Council visited the NEC Secretariat today and discussed with Shri Ram Muivah, Secretary NEC and other officials on the possibility of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to train officials in the area of project implementation & management including third party evaluation of projects, energy auditing, and digitization for smart governance. With this initiative, the benefits to the North Eastern Region would be immense in terms of improved capacity in project implementation and management which will help in timely completion of projects. Dr Prasad requested the States of the North East to approach the NPC with proposals for capacity building programmes and have similar MoUs with the NPC to train the State officials. Dr Prasad also stated that NPC have provided training on concepts like industry 4.0, which is a name given to the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies.

By Our Reporter