Manpower Development & Training (MD&T) Division

Since the inception of founding NWSDB as a prestigious engineering institute, the MD&T has been involved in the process of delivering their noble and generous service with a far-sighted strategy of enhancing the Human Resource into a result-oriented, productive work force in the discipline of water & sanitation industry and the supporting non-technical services. Empowered by a team of fully pledged training officers, the senior high officials of MD&T are steering the administrative and operational staff while complying with industry standards & best practices of mentoring the employees of NWSDB to targeted directives.

MD&T works on a futuristic mission of introducing latest technical, management and psychological innovative into practice has provoked the caliber and commitments of personalities. During the last few decades of operation, this exercise has been maintaining the effectiveness of productivity among the NWSDB communities employed at island-wide sites, plants and offices, etc. Training requests that are being generated at such locations, streams into central office are mostly based on the career-oriented relevancy, contributes the preparation of Annual training schedule.

Training programs are primarily categorized as In house, External (on-the-job training abbreviated as OJT) and Overseas.

In house programs are being conducted in the premises of MD&T or at Regional Centers whereas in the context of OJT, industry-specific training opportunities are being offered by external organizations such as firms, mercantile establishments or agents (suppliers of machinery, equipment or raw materials). In OJT, the participants of NWSDB, receive an exposure, build confidence and acquire effective hands-on experience from industrial experts in a real working environment.

For further training needs, MD&T prepares, facilitates selected NWSDB participants with air passage, board and lodging, fees, etc. borne by their annually allocated budget. Depending on the period of stay at overseas country, this program is sub divided as short-term (less than 6 months) and long-term (more than 6 months or 1-3 years duration)

(In addition to short-term at overseas are industrial visits, technical evaluation/inspection & workshops in which its duration is approximately less than 4 weeks.)

The MD &T Division maintains a comprehensive web site containing the most recent training facilities and opportunities offered by the Division for more details please visit the official web site of the Training Division.

The on-line eLearning environment launched by the MD &T Division is an effective step taken towards promoting on-line learning experience, which is considered as the latest & innovative method of delivering training courses in todays` context.

NWSDB eLearning portal : ………………………

Internal Training Courses

External Training Courses

Training of NWSDB Employees at other Institutes Annual Training Programme 2013

* Notes:
In the event that the listed programmes are not conducted or the number of prarticipants are less than the allocation unutlized funds will be allocated for other relevant programmes with the approval of the General Manager