A joint meeting of the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) for Peren district was held at Deputy Commissioner Office DPDB hall Peren on Wednesday, a DIPR report stated.

Tokheho Yepthomi, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and chairperson DISHA, Nagaland apprised the meeting on how the departments are utilizing the sanction money from the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS).  He stated that the CSS strategy and the policies need to be actively and honestly implemented.

During the meeting, the MP advised the Food & Civil Supplies department to handle their activities perfectly and give proper guidelines of the department to the agencies. He also encouraged Agriculture department to cultivate and adopt good methods of farming like other states for the benefits of the district and for the state in general to support farmers.

Highlighting through a PowerPoint presentation, the Agriculture department said it is attempting and trying to connect different agencies to promote the products cultivated in Peren district.

Yepthomi also encouraged the Social Welfare department to seek more schemes and promote the activities. He further stated that Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) scheme is launched in the year 2021 and there are 36 types of devices for the citizens.

Deputy Commissioner Peren, Vineet Kumar, IAS expressed his gratitude to all the departments for highlighting their departmental activities.

PowerPoint presentations were presented by RD department; Food & Civil Supplies; PWD (R&B) Peren Division; Social Welfare department; Agriculture department; Power department; PHED and Health & Family Welfare department.