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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Meghalaya block hits job target by Andrew W Lyndoh

Meghalaya block hits job target by Andrew W Lyndoh

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published Published on Apr 18, 2011   modified Modified on Apr 18, 2011
The Samanda community and rural development block has achieved the unique distinction of 99.97 person days per household and become the first in the state to provide 100 man days for each registered household under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). As many as 149 out of 151 village employment councils achieved the target.

Samanda is near Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills, and is about 325km from here.

“This was accomplished in spite of the ethnic conflict and curfews that paralysed two community and rural development blocks for two months. The spread of insurgency in the interior villages made implementation of NREGS difficult,” East Garo Hills deputy commissioner Pravin Bakshi said.

However, official sources today said as far as the implementation of the NREGS at the district level in 2010-11 was concerned, East Garo Hills stood second with an average of 81 man days per household. Ri Bhoi district topped the list with 86 man days.

The NREGS aims at enhancing the livelihood of people in rural areas by guaranteeing 100 days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

A total of 420 projects were undertaken and successfully completed in the block during the financial year 2010-2011, creating as many as 6,40,938 man days for the registered households.

Bakshi said the block achieved the results in spite of agitation and law and order disturbances plaguing the district and the block.

“Last year, too, the block had shown the way with 94 man days per household with several unique experiments like promoting horticultural crops and rubber plantations. It had achieved the highest number of person days in the state,” he added.

Bakshi said the NREGS also provided 80.32 person days per household and 36.80 lakh number of man days in 2010-2011 as compared to 80.41 of the last financial year.

Militants are active in areas and villages falling under the Samanda block, particularly on the other side of the Simsang river, that recently witnessed several police operations.

Samanda block development officer S.K. Momin had received the coveted Meghalaya Day Excellence Award in 2010-11 for his pioneering contribution to the block.

“Concerted efforts were made in the block to ensure convergence of different schemes with NREGS by way of training component support and convergence with schemes like the integrated watershed management programme, repair, restoration and renovation of water bodies scheme, rubber board and others,” Bakshi said.

Training for stakeholders was provided by the fisheries department, soil and water conservation department and irrigation department, including partnership with the Meghalaya Rural Development Society (IFAD project), East Garo Hills.

“The success of the scheme has instilled a lot of faith and self-confidence amongst people who are now motivated to take up ambitious projects,” Bakshi said.

“People in the block are now beginning to realise the benefits of the demand-driven scheme where they can plant rubber, construct fishery ponds, bridges or work on any other project,” he said, while adding that attaining 100 man days work was a great boon to the villagers.

Bakshi said people were also trying to plant titachap — a tree species that grew at a rapid rate and also provided fine quality timber.

He said, “Around 18 village employment councils, including villages like Nengmandalgre, Dura Bawegre, Rapdikgre, Doreng Kidre across the Simsang river, have converged to construct an ambitious causeway from Nokel Awe to Nengmandalgre connecting villages on both sides of the river. This causeway can connect to Chokpot in South Garo Hills, thereby facilitating connectivity.”

Nengmandalgre is the native village of Sohan D. Shira, the self-styled commander-in-chief of the nascent militant outfit, the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).

“East Garo Hills has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. However, this accomplishment comes like a whiff of fresh air after the ethnic clashes and a series of law and order and militancy problems,” Bakshi said.

However, he said not all muster rolls could be cleared as funds were not processed from the Centre and provided on time to the district. The January ethnic clash and the subsequent rehabilitation resulted in a delay in the preparation and submission of utilisation certificates. He added that the muster rolls for the last financial year would be cleared this month.

The Telegraph, 17 April, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110418/jsp/northeast/story_13865337.jsp


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