District Panchayat Training & Resource Centre

Panchayat & Rural Development Section, Murshidabad

          As per mandate of the Ministry of Panchayati raj, Government of India,each and every elected member of PRI must have to be trained at least for three days every year.In order to achieve the target from the year 2008 onwards training of Gram panchayat and Panchayat level functionaries is largely being taken care of by the DPRDO & District Training Coordinator under the guidance of Panchayats &  Rural Development Department,West Bengal.
       In Murshidabad District the District Training & Resource Centres is located nearby Kadbeltala, Berhampore, Murshidabad.
      The Training programme is under overall control of Member-Secretary,STARPARD & Joint Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal,Department of  Panchayats &  Rural Development.

           Murshidabad District is a district of West Bengal in eastern India. Situated on the left bank of the river Ganges, the district is very fertile. Covering an area of 5,341 km² (2,062 sq mi) and having a population 5.863m (according to 2001 census) it is a densely populated district and the ninth most populous in India (out of 640). Baharampur town is the headquarters of the district.The Murshidabad city, which lends its name to the district, was the seat of power of the Nawabs of Bangla. All of Bengal was once governed from this town. Few years after Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula lost to the British at the Battle of Plassey, the capital of Bengal was moved to the newly founded city of Calcutta.It borders West Bengal's Malda district to the north, Jharkhand's Sahebganj district and Pakur district to the north-west, Birbhum to the west, Bardhaman to the south-west and Nadia district due south. The international border with Bangladesh's Rajshahi Division is on the east.