The aim of the programme is to enhance leadership skills of Officials and trade union activists
working for Tea/Coffee Plantation workers.

To develop understanding, aptitude and positive
attitudes on leadership among participants of
Developing Countries

To address and strengthen the understanding of gender issues in labour market and to
enhance the understanding of related laws.

Employment, in its quantitative and more pertinently in its qualitative aspects, is one of the
central concerns of public policy. While employment creation remains a crucial long term
policy goal, it is now emerging as one of the most important policy instruments for tackling
economic slowdown. Employment is not only a macroeconomic phenomena – its importance
and social and individual level is far greater. Employment remains the foremost means for
providing social security and tackling insecurities at the individual level. It is in this context
that this programme addresses various dimensions related to generation of quality
employment as a means to achieve the national goal of sustainable and inclusive growth.

To develop an understanding of social protection and livelihood security for informal
sector workers through development schemes.

The elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions are responsible for local
self-governance that includes making arrangements for water, health, sanitation, education,
upkeep of roads, lighting arrangements, planting of trees, keeping the village clean and
maintaining law and order. Hence, their involvement and contribution in implementation of
any policy, legislation or rehabilitation effort is very high. Having been elected directly by the
people and having grown up in the same environment, the members of PRIs wield
considerable influence over the people in their area.
In the case of child labour, the responsibility of the elected representatives of
Panchayati Raj Institutions in the area of education is of extreme importance. If the children
are to be educated, they need to have the time to attend school and do their studies instead
of being employed as child labourers. The elected members of the Village Panchayat, can
bring about change in the mindset of people who have the tendency to accept child labour as
a way of life and who are not generally sensitive to its negative effects.
Hence, the elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions they need to be
adequately sensitized on the issue of child labour, made aware of the various policies and
laws that prohibit child labour. This can be only achieved through sensitization and
orientation training. Therefore, this training programme has been designed for this group that
would include ideas on the action the members of the PRIs can contribute to prevention and
elimination of child labour, to strengthen enforcement of laws, and in educational
rehabilitation of child labour and economic rehabilitation of their families.