NAMSAI, Oct 27:  Under the “Sankalp Se Siddhi Tak” IEC Program, Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein reviewed the progress of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, Prime Minister’s and Chief Minister’s Flagship Programmes in Namsai District at the District Secretariat today.

He called upon the officers to go the extra mile to implement the CSS and Flagship Programmes in order to achieve the target and vision of New India by 2022 as envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mein also appealed them to ensure government welfare programs percolate down to the intended beneficiaries. He asked them to raise awareness among the general masses about the schemes and programmes through IEC in order for them to avail the benefits. He further asked them to set Namsai as an ideal district and be the first to achieve all the objectives as envisaged under these programmes.

Mein further said that skill development is an important component of the “Sankalp Se Siddhi Tak” and asked the officers to encourage the unemployed educated youths to avail the benefits under various skill development Programmes and Loan provided by the state government on subsidized rates to set up local entrepreneurs for self employment and generate livelihood activities.

Citing drug addiction as a big challenge among the youths today, he further asked the officers to involve the youths in positive activities like games & sports and local entrepreneurship and also asked the district administration and police to deal strictly with poppy cultivation and drug trafficking to stop the growing menace.

 He also said that efforts must be put to double the farmer’s income by 2022 and to take up irrigations, issue of soil health cards to farmers, generation of quality seedlings for rubber, tea and coffee in mission mode alongwith all other flagship programmes.

 He further called upon the officers to submit innovative proposals to be taken up in the next budget.

 Deputy Commissioner, RK Sharma and Special Secretary of Education and IPR Departments, Mithali  Namchoom who is also the Secretary In-charge of Namsai District Committee under the IEC Program also addressed the meeting.

 Later, DyCM visited the old DC Office building which is proposed to be the temporary campus for Green Field Science College and the under construction building of Multipurpose Cultural Hall in Namsai. Mein asked the Deputy Commissioner to make the College functional from the coming academic session.

---

Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
Email: kenterjoyaz@easternsentinel.in / editoreasternsentinel@gmail.com
Phone: 0360-2212313

<< Back to News List