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Resource persons and participants of a training programme in micro finance consultancy, in Mon.[/caption]
Dimapur, April 20 (EMN): The district mission management unit (DMMU) of the Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mission conducted two days training on micro finance consultancy. The training was organised for the community cadres of Chen Block at the districts Rural Development Agencies (DRDA) resource centre of Mon town on April 17 and 18th. Updates on Friday informed about the event.
The project director and district mission manager, DRDA, Wennyei Konyak, in his address, encouraged the community cadres to practice ‘dialogue’ within the community. He said that, dialogue enables one to open up, and develop confidence.
Konyak urged the cadres to guide Self Help Groups to set targets and march forward by keeping a vision to grow. He asked the group leaders to prioritize on practical plans.
While emphasising on the importance of education, he said that, education empowers a person, for which a person should keep learning new things each day. He encouraged the groups to put up a ‘sincere’ record. He encouraged them to carry on the training with ‘seriousness’ and bring back the ‘learnings’ to the community.
The Nagaland State Cooperative Bank of Mon, Branch Manager, W Chemkai shared about the various steps to grow with bank. It included: opening of a Saving Bank Account; availing credit linkage; and a regular loan recovery by clearing the outstanding balance within the given period. He shared also about the opportunity given by the banks for public to open ‘zero balance’ in any bank.
Another resource person, Rajuselie Lhousa spoke on the prospects of SHG from the financial institutions. He advised them to identify who are interested to seek for credit linkage in coordination with area coordinators
One of the participants has requested the bank to put up good technical equipment and primary requirements so as to avoid the high cost by a customer in visiting bank branch.
