Nagaland Governor, La Ganesan held an interaction meeting with the civil society organisations (CSO) and head of departments (HoDs) of Phek district at Heritage Banquet Hall, DC’s Residence on Thursday where he lauded the district for having achieved the two most successful community-based programmes in the state, DIPR informed.
Ganesan was referring to the Village Development Board (VDB), which was first initiated at Kutsapo village in 1976 and later implemented throughout Nagaland in 1980, and Communitisation of Public Institutions and Services, which also started from Phek and has earned many accolades for the State. Nagaland was the recipient of the UN Public Service Excellence Award in 2008 for its communitisation programme.
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The Governor also mentioned about the launch of the Swacch Bharat Mission in 2014 to declare India open defecation free, for which he expressed his happiness and acknowledged that most towns and villages in Nagaland are found clean. The Governor urged upon all the citizens to make ‘swacch’ our goal and our lifestyle and to keep all surroundings and environment clean which is essential in the post-covid scenario.
He also gave credit to every individual, CSOs and the government agencies for the peaceful environment that prevails in the state today and called upon all to look back and feel proud of the achievements and at the same time introspect on the things that are yet to be achieved.
Ganesan also stressed on the need to be good model citizens for the State as well as for the country, to co-operate and work hand in hand with government – both at the Centre and in the State. In the education sector, he said, Phek district literacy percentage of 88.30% is much higher than our national average, however, Governor also urged them to strive for excellence, at the same time.
The Governor also announced that the State Medical College at Kohima will be starting their academic session very soon and the health scenario is expected to improve in a major way by way of more doctors being available with the state’s health set-up.
Further, he mentioned that under the direct intervention of the Central Government, numerous road projects are ongoing in the state, where Phek district have its fair share of road projects, such as Pfutsero-Phek 2- Lane Highway, which is completed and the Kohima-Pfutsero-Meluri 2-lane Highway which will to go beyond Meluri into Myanmar and link up with the South East Asian economies as per the central Government’s “Look East” and “Act East Policy”.
Stressing on banking as another basic service that cannot be ignored in this modern world, he urged every eligible citizen, especially women, to have a Jan-Dhan account in order to avail all the banking facilities and also pressed upon the officers from various departments present at the meeting to kindly ensure that the flagship programmes of the government pertaining to basic services are diligently implemented for the welfare of the people.
Shorts speech were delivered by Chakhesang Public Organisation, Pochury Hoho, Chakhesang Youth Front, Chakhesang Students’ Union, Phek District Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Chakhesang Mothers’ Association
The programme was chaired by Deputy Commissioner Phek, Kumar Ramnikant, IAS.
