Highway Engineers to Receive Project Management Training

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Highway Engineers to Receive Project Management Training

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The Indian Academy of Highway Engineers (IAHE) will now offer customized project management training for those attending the academy. PMI India is helping IAHE in the development of the training modules and periodic faculty development programs.

The objective is to facilitate IAHE to become a world-class project management center of excellence.

The collaboration is the result of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that the two organizations signed in May 2016 to promote project management and build a project management ecosystem within IAHE. The MoU was signed by V.L. Patankar, director, IAHE, and Raj Kalady, managing director, PMI India.

Present on the occasion were Nitin Gadkari, union minister, road transport and highways and shipping, and Sanjay Mitra, secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

Highlighting the importance of project management in this sector, Mr. Patankar said, "The roads and highway sector is the backbone of the domestic infrastructure in India. The sector is going through a very exciting phase today. The MoU is a timely step for IAHE for its outward looking approach of promoting the discipline of project management. This, in turn, will lead to the adoption of project management best practices within the road and highway sector in India.

Project management education will help engineers and project managers at IAHE to enhance their knowledge and sharpen their skills in project planning and delivery.

Speaking on the importance of project management within the road transport and highway sector, Mr. Gadkari said, "Projects are vital to a country like ours that is changing and growing fast. In order to sustain the pace and ensure successful execution of the various new infrastructure initiatives, it is essential that standard processes for planning, execution, and monitoring are put in place where project management plays a vital role.

He added that the first step towards this was to create a project management ecosystem within IAHE. "We have collaborated with PMI, the world's leading membership association for project mangement profession. I sincerely believe that project management is the bridge between high-level strategic vision and successful outcomes.

Mr. Kalady remarked that this collaboration would not only help in enhancing the performance of project professionals but also in delivering project results effectively and within all possible constraints.

"Today, the need and importance of project management is widely recognized all across the globe. Government ministries and departments, multilateral agencies, and other national and international bodies of high repute are talking about the adoption of project management in the same breath as higher economic growth," Mr. Kalady added.

PMI will work towards strengthening the abilities of personnel working in projects under the ministry. There will be workshops, training programs, and certification of personnel to achieve the overall objective of creating a project management culture.

PMI India will offer IAHE one set of all the standards developed and owned by PMI, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) - Fifth Edition, The Standard for Program Management - Third Edition, The Standard for Portfolio Management - Third Edition, and Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3^®) - Third Edition. These PMI standards are developed in accordance with the Code of Good Practice for Standardization developed by the International Organization for Standardization and the standards development guidelines established by the American National Standards Institute which accredits PMI as a standards developer.