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About ISTD Kolkata Chapter
ISTD – Kolkata chapter is one of the major chapters of ISTD. It has won the Best Chapter” award for the year 1999, 2003, 2011 and 2021. It hosted the National convention in year 2000, 2004 and 2012 and the Regional Convention in 2003, 2013, 2017 and 2022 which ware well appreciated by the professional fraternity. It was a great honour for us that all these Conferences were inaugurated by the then Hon’ble Governors of West Bengal, several MICs under the departments such an Education, Labour, Consumer Affairs and other ministers of West Bengal.
Established in April
1970
Best Chapter Award
1999, 2003
Our Vision
To lead transformation through training and development, helping people and organisations realise their potential. We aim to inspire lifelong learning, strengthen skills and encourage meaningful change in workplaces and communities.
Our Mission
To Facilitate Individuals and Organizations. To excel in Training & Development Activities Serve As Reservoir of Universal Knowledge of Human Interface through Innovative Practices and Original Exploratory Research
Key Objectives
ISTD seeks to bring together individuals from Government, industry, education and such other institutions to evolve and develop improved and effective HRD/Training practices tools and technologies. The objectives of the Society are to:
- Promote a better and more effective utilization of human resources through education, training and development in all spheres of Govt., agriculture, industry, commerce, education, infrastructure, services and other such sectors.
- Provide leadership and promote study and application of professional principles and practices in the field of training and development in order to assist managements and administrations to develop and maintain an effective organization.
- Promote an understanding of training and development as a basic responsibility of management and administration and to assist the organization in planning and implementing their programs for manpower development with a view to maintain their effectiveness and improving their adaptability to changing problems and challenges.
- Stimulate thought and efforts for the dissemination, exchange and furtherance of information, knowledge, research, techniques, materials, aids, skills and attitudes in the field of training & development.
- Sponsor appropriate research and/or publish necessary literature, books, journals, newsletters, pamphlets, reports.
- Promote or assist in the promotion of professional schools and other institutions allied with the objective of the Society and other professional degrees, diplomas and certificates.
- Institute and establish scholarships, grants, awards and prizes to encourage study and research in the field of training & development.
- Establish, organize or assist in setting up professional institutions, libraries, laboratories and exhibitions.Establish, organize or assist in setting up professional institutions, libraries, laboratories and exhibitions.
- Conduct or to assist in conducing conference, meetings, lectures, seminars, workshops or other programs.
- Co-operate with institutions, bodies and agencies having similar objectives, for the promotion and development of the training & development movement in the country.
- Maintain constructive liaison or join any association, organization or to seek or grant affiliation to any other body having similar objectives in India or abroad.
- Constitute, support and assist in the establishment of Chapters of the Society in various parts of India in order to make its activities more effective and to spearhead the training & development movement throughout the country by giving full scope for the development of local ingenuity and talents.
- Foster a feeling of fellowship among its members and to promote understanding and goodwill among all persons, working in the field of training & development.
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