Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission hosts a workshop to transform Community Managed Training Centres into women-led rural business hubs by 2031.
DIMAPUR — A three-day workshop of the Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM), under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), focused on transforming its 20 community-managed training centres (CMTCs) into sustainable, community-owned and women-managed multipurpose centres under self-help group cluster-level federations (CLFs).
The workshop concluded at AIDA in Dimapur on August 28. According to a press release, 17 of the centres are currently functional, while three are scheduled to be established by the end of the year.
The centres aim to provide quality training and services while generating sustainable revenue for the CLFs. A three-day workshop focused on advancing this vision concluded at AIDA in Dimapur on August 28.
Addressing the gathering on the final day, Chief Operating Officer of NSRLM M Rollan Lotha called upon the CLFs to broaden their perspective of CMTCs beyond their conventional role as training centres and explore viable business opportunities that can be undertaken through these facilities.
Depending on local potential and market demand, CMTCs can progressively evolve into multipurpose rural business and service centres, creating additional revenue streams for their respective CLFs.
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“The vision is to move from CMTCs as training facilities to CMTCs becoming a productive institutional asset of the CLF—one that generates income, creates opportunities and contributes to the sustainability of the federation by 2030,” he said.
He pointed out that ownership of the CMTC must rest firmly with the CLF, with self-help groups and their federations playing a central role in their governance, management and enterprise development.
Particular focus was also placed on the role of CLF managers recruited by the CLFs to take ownership of nurturing the CMTCs, identifying business opportunities, developing partnerships, improving the utilisation of the facilities and positioning each centre as a flourishing multipurpose enterprise.
The participants were the CLF members and their managers, along with area coordinators of NSRLM.