Project-Barefoot Technician (BFT)
The Barefoot Technician (BFT) Project was launched by the Ministry during FY 2015-16 and being implemented across 20 States in the country. ‘Barefoot Technician’ is an educated person identified from the local Mahatma Gandhi NREGA worker households or from among the mates/supervisors and specially trained in civil engineering concepts using a customized training module such that she/he, acquires required skills for identification and estimation of works, giving mark-out for works in the field and record measurement of the work done in the Measurement-Book of the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA.
The training module for the BFT consists of 12 Learning Units and 1 Trainers Guide. The training programme is residential in nature and is of 90 days duration. The Learning units are developed both in English and Hindi language consists of topics such as Mahatma Gandhi NREGS – Key features, Permissible Works under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, Construction of Rural roads, Construction Measurement and calculation, Maps, Sketches and Drawings, Survey and Setting out construction works, Mahatma Gandhi NREGS – Documents, Forms and Registers etc.,
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The candidates who have successfully completed training and certified as BFTs are sponsored by the State Government with a commitment to appoint the person as BFT and are deployed in identified cluster of Gram Panchayats keeping in view the Scope of work for BFTs. Total 9,387 BFTs have been trained in 20 states.