Under village governance system in Nagaland, much power have been handed to the community but the same had not been utilized to the optimum, said SDO (C) Dhansiripar Block, Mhalo Humtsoe. She was addressing the participants of rural development wing’s staff of Dhansiripar block and community mobilisers of Prodigals Home on the event on unique village governance system in Nagaland on October 26 at Dimapur.
SDO also stressed on the importance of RTI, and reminded the gathering on the pertinent points of the Village Council Act of 1978, Village Development Board Rules, Roles and functions of GB, Village Court and Dobashi Court, and the communitization of various sectors such as education, water and sanitation, electricity, forest and health in the village.
The orientation program was organized by Prodigals’ Home with the objective of capacitating its rural development wing’s staff on the issue of local/village level governance system, particularly in the context of the organization implementing various rural development projects and an effort towards improving the village governance in Dhansiripar Block, Dimapur.