In the three tier Cooperative credit structure of U.P. there are Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (B-PACS) Working at Nyay Panchayat level, District Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) Working at District level and State Cooperative Bank Working at State level. To increse business of B-PACS by developing their human resource through training intervention, In the year 1985 U.P. Cooperative Bank established Agriculture Cooperative Staff Training Institute (ACSTI) in a rented building at Mahanagar, Lucknow with the financial assistance of NCDC New Delhi under world Bank Rural godown Project. Afterwards in the year 1987 Agriculture Cooperative Staff Training Institute (ACSTI) was shifted to its own campus built on a big plot of 6000 square meter area by the grant assistance availed under world Bank Rural Godown Project through NCDC, New Delhi.

Institute building comprises an administrative block, an Air conditioned class room and a Air conditioned computer lab/class room, an Air conditioned and non air conditioned conference hall, library and hostel of 32 rooms with staying capacity of 100 participants. In addition to this institute also has its own pumpset, generatorset, dining hall and a lounge along with adequate facilities for recreation.

 

In the institute there are professionally qualified two permanent faculties and a Director having vast experience of training & administration. Both the faculties are CTFC qualified from C-PEC, BIRD. In addition to this institute has also maintained a panel of guest faculties from commercial banks, cooperative banks, cooperative department and other fields.

Institute is a life member of C-PEC BIRD for achieving excellence in field of human resource development through training intervention. It is a permanent training wing of state cooperative bank. There are sub-ordinate staff and faculty members liable towards Director of the institute and Director is liable towards Managing Director of U.P. Cooperative Bank. There is a committee formed in the institute- standing advisory committee in chairmanship of chairman of UPCB Ltd., officers of NABARD R.O., Faculty member of BIRD and Director of this Institute are members of this committee looking after training functions, review the performance of institute and approval of annual training calendar. Syllabus of training programme and duration of programme etc. are reviewed and approved in syllabus committee meeting of the institute.

 

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