Tanzania, India to boost human resource base

JIMMY LWANGILI

THE governments of Tanzania and India have established Information Technology resource centres to strengthen human resource capacity necessary for the growth and development of organisations in the country.

The IT resource centres have been established at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology and Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NMAIST), Tele-education Centre at the University of Dar es Salaam and Tele-medicine Units at Ocean Road Cancer Institute.

Also included is the Solar Power Promotion Centre in Zanzibar and Small Industry Incubation Centre under establishment at the Small Industries Development Organisation.

The Minister of State, President’s Office, Public Service Management and Good Governance, Ms Angellah Kairuki, said the government appreciates the government of India for investing in the sector.

The minister confirmed that in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday as the guest of honor during the occasion of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) day at the Indian Cultural center.

Minister Kairuki said the overall aim of the ITEC is to help alleviate shortage of skilled human resources qualitatively and quantitatively, necessary for the country’s development. Also is grounded on the fact that improving the quality and number of skilled staff is critical and very beneficial for socio-economic development.

“The number of training opportunities availed to the public services in Tanzania has steadily grown from 24 training opportunities in 1972/1973 to 189 for the year 2015/2016,” she said.

At the same occasion the Indian High Commissioner for Tanzania, Mr Sandeep Arya said over the last ten years, about 2,200 Tanzanians have been trained in India under ITEC programme and they are setting to expand training scholarships in future.

He said during the India-Africa Forum Summit in October 2015, India offered to expand training to 50, 0000 people over the next five years. Last year about 10,000 ITEC training seats were offered to 161 countries across the world.

“ITEC offers 280 courses at 47 training institutions in India in areas such as Information Technology, telecom, renewable energy, water management, entrepreneurship, rural development, small and medium enterprises, public administration, audit and accounts, finance, parliamentary affairs and environment,” he said.

Mr Arya further said ITEC offers not only training programmes in India but also deputation of Indian experts abroad, study tours, consultancy services, disaster relief (humanitarian assistance) and equipment supplies.