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WALMI

History

Walmi is a State Training Institute to Impart multi-disciplinary training in the field of irrigated agriculture. Established in 1980-81 at Anand, in Kheda district with financial support of World Bank. During 1983-84, it became a participant of USAID assisted "Water Resources Management & Training Programmes" Since 1985 WALMI has been working as an autonomous body under "Gujarat Irrigation Management Society"-(GIMS)

Infrastructural Set-up of Walmi-Anand

In May-1990 after the completion of new campus, the training activities commenced in the campus having land area of over 56 hectare with following infrastructure's:- Administrative building block (includes Meeting room, Conference room, etc)
Faculty building block (including Class rooms, library, auditorium, computer Center, etc)

Boarding Facilities:

Trainees Hostel - To accommodate 102 trainees
Farmers Hostel - To accommodate 56 farmers

Guest House (with Well furnished 5 suits)
Residential colony with 14 units of different types for staff member's
Demonstration farm of 36 hectare

Regional Training Network of WALMI

There are Three Regional Training Centers of WALMI apart from the main campus at Anand.

They are located at:-

Gandhinagar (Middle & North of Gujarat)
Rajkot (Saurastra & Kutch region)
Surat (Southern part of Gujarat)

All the regional centers are fully developed with required infrastructures for imparting training to lower level functionaries and farmers.

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