Meeting of rural development project directors held at Kohima

Project directors of all the district and NSRLM officers held a meeting on October 21 at RD conference hall to review various schemes being implemented by the department. 

Addressing the meeting, secretary RD, Kelei Zeliang called upon the department to cooperate with the MPs and DCs with regard to ongoing projects under SAGY so as to complete pending works. He also reminded that RD was just the nodal department of SAGY and like any other line departments. He said that the department would try its level best to cooperate and do what needs to be done. Lamenting on the casual attitude of the BDOs in carrying out their duties, he also instructed the PDs to direct their respective BDOs to be in station and visit villages and inspect schemes being implemented. On the issue of CGI sheet distribution, he urged them to check whether the quantity distributed to the blocks and villages have been received.

Director, RD, Metsubo Jamir also mentioned that MGNREGAs contribution towards SAGY will be only in the form of material components and that it will be not more than 25%.

To create awareness and to generate transparency, Jamir felt that the project directors should take the initiative to conduct district and block level VDB meetings at regular intervals. Regarding Job Card verification, Geo Tagging and aadhar seeding etc, he said it was mandatory to call all the VDBs and inform them before proceeding with the exercise.

In an effort to streamline the State Rural Livelihood Mission, additional secretary, RD and mission director, NSRLM, Athel O. Lotha said accountability would now be vested towards the PDs and requested all the PDs and BDOs to keep the NRLM staffs under their control so that everything was streamlined and clarity, communication and coordination would be there. 

Joint Director, K. Neibou Sekhose also reminded the districts and blocks to submit at the earliest the reports on NLM visit, Panchayat Day celebration, Disha, Best 3 VDBs, video clips for MGNREGA Special Project and job card verification report. The project directors were further instructed to organize district level VDB conference by the 2nd week of November.