Dimapur, March 17 (EMN): The Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission has concluded a two-day intensive training programme for key professionals from the district and Resource Block Mission units. The programmes were on the topic of ‘Transaction based MIS’ (TBMIS), conducted at the state office in Kohima, and field test of the tablet-based MIS with self help groups at Phesema village, Jakhama block of Kohima district, during March 14-15.
The application designed and developed by Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana–National Rural Livelihoods Mission, ministry of Rural Development, a press release from the organisers stated on Friday.
eSHG brings all SHGs to a single database with unique identity of SHG and its members and ensures there is no duplication of membership in multiple SHGs, the press release stated. Also, eTransactions facilitates instant capturing of transactions made by SHGs and its member, maintains fair and correct manual books of records; monitor the health of the SHG and thereby enable direct access to financial services/assistance from formal financial institutions/government; monitoring and rating of SHG by higher level community institutions, viz, Village Level Organisations(VLO)/Federations on regular interval; to show capability/ability of poor women towards thrift and credit and facilitate access of financial services by sharing transactions with credit Bureau; and to perform eAudit and reconcile books of records.
The application can be accessed through 3 modes- My SHG App in tablet; online Application; and Desktop Based application (offline).
The transaction system will initially aim to cover all SHGs in all the nine resource blocks in nine districts with the help of trained Community Data Entry Operators in line with the mission’s ‘communitization’ objectives, it was informed.
The Community Data Entry Operators are members from village level organisations having minimum qualifications of basic arithmetic skills. “Organically (sic) 1, 238 villages across Nagaland will be covered under the fold of this transaction system by 2025,” the press release stated.
The additional secretary of Rural Development and Mission Director of NSRLM, Athel O Lotha, has emphasized on the importance of TBMIS and the need for systematic and gradual communitization. She holds that its use by community institutions such as village level organisations and federations will help in effectively monitoring and supporting the self-help groups in the state, the press release explained.
Further, it added, it will facilitate ‘convergence and diversify fund base’ through access to various entitlements.
