Address: State Institute of Rural Development-SPIPA Opp. Sundar Van, Satellite, Ahmedabad-380015

The State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) is the state apex body for imparting trainings for the Rural Development Programmes and Panchayati Raj. SIRD was merged with SPIPA in 2006 as an autonomous organization under the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department of Government of Gujarat. SIRD was established on 29th February, 1996.

The objectives of the SIRD are mentioned as under :

• To organise the training programmes, workshops, seminars and orientation programmes for the personnels of rural development and Panchayati departments and various target groups.

• To develop the need based training modules for different target groups.

• To prepare literature for various training programmes and thereby disseminate information about various activities of rural development and Panchayati Raj.

• To evaluate and carry out research of selected activities of rural development and Panchayati Raj.