To ensure proper use of its Rs. 86,553 crore annual rural spending, an ambitious curriculum to train and educate all those involved in the execution of the programmes concerned is on the anvil. This mass-based decentralised capacity building process, the first of its kind among developing countries, intends to develop skills of 40 lakh hands annually. To achieve this, the Centre has evolved a new educational and training methodology for rural development and improving the livelihoods of the rural folk under a Central Training Authority to be set up under a new law currently under consideration. The Union Ministry of Rural Development has come up with the draft National Rural Development Training Authorities Bill, 2011 which has received the approval of both the Law Ministry and Expenditure Ministry. It has been circulated for public opinion before its introduction in Parliament for ratification. Restructure of process The entire training and educational process will be restructured so as to address shortcomings pointed out by both the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) and Planning Commission. The two bodies have expressed concern that such a large sum was being spent through people who were not properly trained and held poor capacity as a factor for the poor outcome in the rural sector. Consequently, it has been recommended under the proposed law that at least one percent of the budget allocation for the rural sector should be earmarked for training and educational activities. In the present context it works out to an expenditure of about Rs. 865 crore annually. All the 30 lakh panchayat members, 45 lakh government functionaries, members of the self help groups(SHGs), and 40 lakh Bharat Nirman volunteers will be trained under the new structure, which means 2 crore people need to be brought under the process. With the panchayat elections being held every five years, besides the changing composition of the other groups, the proposed process calls for continuity. It will be the responsibility of the authority to develop the academic and knowledge generation architecture and establish different