Development Programme Officer

This is a very demanding job. The candidate must be prepared to stay in rural and tribal areas for longer periods of time. He must possess good persuasion skills. As a Development Officer he supervises, coordinates and guides the work of the all community projects as in charge at the block level. He also arranges educational programmes nutrition and hygiene demonstrations with the help and assistance of the personnel under his charge and other block personnel. The finalization of monthly and yearly budgets and to incur necessary expenditure relating to community development programmes (for e.g. ICDS i.e. Integrated Child Development Scheme) and Functional Literacy Schemes.

A Development Program Officer acts as the Drawing and Disbursing Officer for such schemes and Functional Literacy schemes excluding the health inputs. He ensures that all the equipment and material supplied for such programmes and accounted for and are used and maintained properly. To ensure the maintenance of proper registers and records, both at the block and Anganwadi level and inspect these records periodically.

Though, initially pay package in this field of work is not as lucrative as other professions, but this field surely offers s tremendous satisfaction. Generally one can start his career with a starting salary of around Rs. 8,000 or above.