NAMSAI, Jun 16: Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein today said that the Land Possession Certificate issued by the District Administration shall be deemed as a Land ownership certificate with the help of which farmers can avail the benefits of loan, subsidy and others offer under various schemes such as Chief Minister’s Krishi Rinn Yojana, etc.  He requested the Rubber Board, Spice Board and Coffee Board to accept LPC as a genuine document of land ownership in any of their subsidy and loan offer to the farmers.    

The DyCM was speaking at a coordination meeting with the officers from Rubber Board Zonal Office, Guwahati and District Officers at DC Office, Namsai this evening.

Further asking officers of the agriculture, horticulture and allied sectors to gear up and perform up to the expectations, he asked them to encourage people to take up cultivations of Rubber, Coffee, Tea and Spice crop cultivation in the state.

Mein also asked the departments to immediately start the nursery preparations of Rubber and Tea at government nurseries for which fund of Rs 10 Crore each has been already allocated so that quality seedlings and planting materials are supplied to the farmers at affordable rate.

         He asked the Officers to take the help and technical expertise from Rubber Board, Coffee Board and Spice Board of India and work in coordination with them for raising government nursery.          

To encourage the farmers in this field, he said to sponsor the exposure visit of the interested and progressive farmers of the district through the MLALAD Fund from the three legislative members of the district. He also said to send youths for training in Beekeeping and Honey abstractions as it can be an alternative source of income for the unemployed youths.

Expressing concern on the dismal performance of the Govt secondary schools in CBSE Board exams in the state, he asked the District Administration, Officers and the teachers to analyze the lacunae in the education system and to come forth with solutions to improve the education system.

Rajgopalan Nair K S, Additional Rubber Production Commissioner, Rubber Board Zonal Office Guwahati said that the Rubber Board is planning to take up more plantations in Arunachal Pradesh and expand its cultivation in the region so that it can provide a self-sustainable development. He sought the cooperation of Agriculture and Horticulture Departments of the state in this field to achieve their objectives.

He was accompanied by Shyama Das, Development Officer, Zonal Office, Guwahati and Biswajit Chakraborty, ADO, Rubber Board, Jorhat.

Among others, Bijoy Talukdar, ADC Namsai and District Heads of various departments attended the meeting.

 

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Kenter Joya Riba

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