Department of School Education (DoSE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Phom community Development Society (PCDS), a church based NGO under Phom Baptist Church Association (PBBCA), on November 28, 2016 for implementation of the mid-day meal (MDM) programme in Longleng district. The MoU was signed in the presence of state chief secretary Pankaj Kumar. PBCA was represented by PCDS chief functionary Noklu Phom.
This is the second MoU the department has made with an NGO for implementation of MDM on PPP mode. Earlier, in October 2016, the department had signed an MoU with Rev.Dr.Chingmak Chang, secretary of ECS for Tuensang district.
Speaking at the signing event, state chief secretary, Pankaj Kumar, lauded the school education department for taking the commendable initiative in making use of the inherent asset of the Nagas in implementation of MDM in Tuensang and Longleng districts.
He pointed out that there were formidable challenges in the implementation of the MDM and there were limitations within the government system in the delivery of services. However, he said some people with missionary zeal like Rev. Dr. Chingmak Chang and Noklu Phom, there could be a third way of communitisation of government schemes with the involvement of the people.
The chief secretary expressed the confidence that the PPP mode could be a more successful model in bringing more efficiency in the delivery of MDM in Tuensang and Longleng districts.
He requested Nuklu Phom to explore collaboration with other departments for execution of different programmes and schemes in Longleng district.
In his introductory remarks, the commissioner & secretary school education & SCERT, FP Solo, highlighted about the mid-day meal programme, a centrally sponnsored scheme, and said under the programme, hot cooked meals were to be served to school children upto elementary level in government schools for 220 days in a year.
PCDS chief functionary, Noklu Phom, said PCDS, works with 320 self help groups in areas like horticulture, piggery, fishery, community conservation, community health centre, morung education, micro-financing and communitisation of land use.
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