22,000 Covid warriors to get online training

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 21

The state government has equipped nearly 22,000 employees from across the state with various role-specific training modules on iGOT platform to fight the Covid-19 pandemic far more efficaciously, paving the way for preparing an army of corona warriors.

Disclosing this here today, an official said the course details and relevant instructions on registration and accessing online training module had been circulated to all heads of the departments, deputy commissioners and managing directors of boards and corporations in the state, with directions to all government employees to take role-specific iGOT training on https://igot.gov.in/igot/, an initiative by the Union Ministry of Personnel, and upload the document/certificate regarding completion of training on iHRMS portal.

This would help the state government to have complete data on course-wise trainings undertaken by the employees, who could be further deployed by the government as and when need arises for trained manpower for containment duties amid Covid-19.

Pointing out further, the official said the threat of the pandemic had still been looming large. The country’s first line of health defence was fighting hard to contain the spread in an exemplary fashion. As this fight moves ahead, significantly more manpower would be needed to combat this pandemic, not only for the purposes of deployment in new areas but also for replacing frontline workers as fatigue sets in.

He said these courses were relevant for different departments looking after specific aspects of the fight against Covid.