Zonal Training Centre

Zonal Training Centre, or ZTC as it is commonly known, is the training centre of Reserve Bank of India [http://www.rbi.org.in (RBI)] for its officers and staff. RBI has four such training centres, the biggest and most prominent of them being at CBD Belapur. The other three are at New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. ZTC functions under the overall policy framework and administrative control of the Human Resources Development Department [http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/AboutUsDisplay.aspx?pg=Depts.htm# (HRDD)] of RBI Central Office at Fort, Mumbai.

ZTC Belapur

The ZTC at Belapur, Navi Mumbai is the largest among all the zonal training centres of Reserve Bank of India. Its campus is situated inside the RBI Quarters in Sector-7 of CBD Belapur on the Raintree Street near BARC Atomic Research Centre and Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College. Located amid idyllic sylvan surrounding at the foot of Kharghar hills, the ZTC campus offers peaceful and salubrious climate ideal for research and learning throughout the year.

Programmes and course contents

ZTC conducts about 110 training programmes during a calendar year - fifty during January to June, and another sixty during July to December - May being a shut period. The academic calendar of ZTC follows the RBI accounting year of July to June. Training programmes are conducted for officers, Class-III employees and Class-IV staff.

IODP

The most important and comprehensive training programme at ZTC is the "Integrated Officers' Development Programme", popularly known as "IODP". This is a programme for newly promoted officers, in which the trainees are imparted inputs on basic knowledge about central banking, Indian economy, emerging issues in international finance, computers, noting and drafting, customer service, basic accountancy and staff regulation, besides various HR-related topics such as change management, time management, yoga, health awareness and self motivation etc.

Members of Faculty

Presently Mr Narayana J Nampoothiri is the faculty in-charge. The other members of faculty include Mr S Venkitachalam, Mr Rajesh Jai Kanth, Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Mr Anuranjan Patanaik, Mr Sanjay Kumar Bhatt and Mr Rajesh Chandra Gupta.

International programmes

In 2007 ZTC Belapur conducted an international training programme on Inventory Management for the staff and officers of the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (RMAB)

In March 2008 a training programme was conducted for the officers and staff of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBoE), in which the visiting delegates were given both theoretical and practical exposure to various aspects of RBI's central banking activities.

See also

Reserve Bank of India

References

(1) http://www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx

(2) http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/AboutUsDisplay.aspx?pg=Depts.htm#