<span style="color: #222222;">The Hyderabad-based National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) has launched a training programme of Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change (SLACC) to help Rural Poor Farm Holds adapt to Climate Change and sustain their livelihoods.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission, the NIRDPR has launched the training programme. The first batch Community Resource Persons and National Resource Persons from Madhya Pradesh and Bihar states have begun receiving training classes in Hyderabad. <br />'' The NIRDP Director-General Dr W R Reddy informed that it will be scaled up nationwide in due course. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' "The impact of Climate Change on farmers, especially small and marginal ones is high in any part of the country. If the affected areas are flood-prone and drought-prone, the impact is enormous. The NIRD-PR has developed a training manual for Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change called SLACC. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The National Institute has taken up training the first batch Climate-Smart Community Resource Persons so that they help the community at the grassroots level to combat the impact of climate change. The project has begun for Shivapur and Mandla districts of Madhya Pradesh and Madhubani and Gaya districts of Bihar on a pilot basis. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Course Coordinator and Head of the Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Mitigation, Dr Ravindra S. Gavali says the training will help improve the adaptive capacity of the community especially the poor engaged in farm-based livelihoods to cope with climate change. <br />''          <br />'' "Total 638 drought and flood-prone villages of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are being covered on pilot basis under this first of its kind initiative</span><br />