Milestones / Achievements

 Placement Services

• National Rural Employment Guarantee - Andhra Pradesh (NREGS-AP)

  • Placement and selection process of 657 Programme Officers 

  • Selection and placement of (35) Programme Managers

  • Selection and placement of Horticulture Personnel

  Selection, placement, training and induction into job has been completed. Village immersion training programs were also completed. Contract appointment orders have been issued to all appointed officers.
   
   

• Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Projects (APRLP).

  • Selection of Professionals for Up-scaling the APRLP Project

  • Recruitment, selection, training and induction of Assistant Project Directors / Course Directors of DCBC, CLRCs & DLRCs for APRLP project
     
     

• Command Area Development Authority (CADA) under I & CAD, Government of A.P

  • Selection and placement of professionals for Command Area Development Authority (CADA) under I & CAD, Government of A.P. in four phases.
     
     

• Society for Employment Generation and Marketing Mission

  • Issuance of Contract appointment orders to the (4) Professionals selected for Society for Employment Generation and Marketing Mission in A.P. (SEEDAP-EGMM).
      
     

• As part of pursuance of its objectives as enshrined in the Memorandum of Association of the Society, CDS-APARD has managed issuance of contract appointment orders followed by contract agreements to more than 1600 professionals.  This is upon selection, recruitment, training and induction into the job.
   
   

• A total of more than 1600 contract staff and professionals were selected and trained until 2007.

Human Resource Management

Besides the above activities, CDS-APARD has been assigned with recruitment, selection, training and induction into jobs of the contract staff and professionals for Rural Development Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

In the year 2008 CDS-APARD has generated and issued 6500 contracts to the fixed tenure employees of Rural Development Department of Government of A.P.  Further CDS has provided HR related services, especially recruitment of contract staff to the following other Government department on fairly large scale.

• Irrigation & Command Area Development Department, Government of A.P.  for their A.P., community based Tank Management Project (A World Bank assisted project).
   

• Municipal Administration Department, Government of A.P. (Mission for eradication of Poverty in Municipal Areas)
   

• Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for their UNDP assisted project.
   

• Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) - A Government managed society, for its agency - Employment Generation and Marketing Mission.

Project Implementation – Source of Funds

• Giripragath Programme
  MoU was been entered into between Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) and CDS-APARD to carry on the operations on behalf of SERP.
  The programme is funded by DFID, The programme envisaged development of tribal areas initially in 3 districts covering 8 mandals. The total project outlay was Rs. 12.98 crores for three years i.e. from 2006 to 2008. The end date of the project was 31.12.2008

• Handling of finances of external agencies for implementation of the projects, viz., DFIF, RNE, UNICEF.

• Financial Aid Fund (FA) (Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project).  The funding agency is DFID.  Project was closed on 31.12.2007
   

• Technical Consultancy Fund (TCF) APRLP.  The funding agency is DFID.  Project was closed on 31.12.2007.
   

• CDS is rendering services like selection, placement and managing contracts for various professionals working for APRLP.
   

• Logistic support to the District Capacity Building Centres (DCBC), handling of exposure visits to other states.
   

• Water Conservation Mission (WCM). The Project was funded by Royal Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi.  The project was wound upon 31.12.2004.
   

• Water and Sanitation (W&S).  The project is basically the Government sponsored one and partly by UNICEF and the project was closed during year 2003.
   

• UNICEF has been funding for certain specific projects including water and sanitation through Government of Andhra Pradesh.  The project is not in existence now.

Training

• Training to various functionaries such as MDT Officers, Course Directors of CLRCs & DLRCs, training to P.Ds and training to functionaries of Water & Sanitation
   

• Preparation of Training Modules and Materials
   

• Evaluation of reports on NFFW perspective plans, watersheds etc.
   

• Special projects on CLDP
   

• Establishment of CLRCs and DLRCs and GIS facility centres