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Dimapur, April 1
A “high level orientation program”, as the organizers called it, on the rural development scheme, Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) was conducted on Tuesday in Dimapur for members of the Parliament, deputy commissioner and state-level empowered committees.
The seminar was organized by the department of Rural Development and was conducted in the conference hall of the deputy commissioner’s office. Member of the Rajya Sabha H Khekiho Zhimomi, Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome as well as departmental officials of the Rural Development, State Institute of Rural Development, Food & Civil Supplies, Social Welfare, PWD and Planning & Co-ordination attended the seminar. The members discussed at length the strategies for successful implementation of SAGY in the state, the Rural Development department informed in a press release issued on Tuesday.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is a rural development programme broadly focusing upon the development in the villages which includes social development, cultural development and spread motivation among the people on social mobilization of the village community.
It was also initiated towards bringing the members of parliament of all the political parties under the same umbrella while taking the responsibility of developing physical and institutional infrastructure in villages, turning them into model villages.
Under the scheme, each Member of Parliament needs to choose one village each from the constituency that they represent, fix parameters and make it a model village by 2016. Thereafter, they can take on two or three more villages and do the same by the time the next general elections come along in 2019, and thereafter, set themselves ten-year-long village or rural improvement projects.
Villages will be offered smart schools, universal access to basic health facilities and pucca housing to homeless villagers.
Seluophe and Ikishe are the two villages of the state adopted by Lok Sabha member Neiphiu Rio and Khekiho Zhimomi respectively under the SAGY.
Associate ProfessorDr. Kanak Haloi, who was the resource person of the seminar, offered an overview of the SAGY’s guidelines. He also spoke about the goals and objectives of the scheme.
Member of Parliament Khekiho Zhimomi also spoke during the occasion. He said the SAGY was a practical task given to the MPs ‘to know whom they represent and to come out with a developmental result.’
