Sovima Village Council with YouthNet team on July 20
Dimapur, July 21 (MExN): Sovima Village Council (SVC) on Monday made an appeal for the need to have better coordination, cooperation and understanding between various government agencies and the village communities.
Interacting with YouthNet team which came to Sovima village to assess the impact of implementing the communitisation of various institutions and services, SVC urged the team to convey to the appropriate authorities the urgent need for more involvement of community leaders and departmental officers to ensure that the various schemes and projects introduced by the government, either at the central or the state level, are implemented in letter and spirit.
‘We know that the government has noble schemes and projects meant to benefit the grassroot level. But in the absence of proper coordination and monitoring these noble schemes do not actually materialize in full,’ the SVC told the visiting delegates.
‘We have to ensure that the beneficiaries get their due share and this will be possible only when departmental officials execute stringently their responsibilities according to the book. At the same time the villagers also have to be made aware of their rights and more importantly, their responsibilities,’ it stated.
Communitisation has been a sterling project that has made Nagaland famous worldwide. But of late, it has been found that certain loopholes have crept into the permutation which needs to be rectified, the SVC told the representatives from YouthNet.
SVC shared its concerns about the functioning of various services and bodies such as VDB, Village Education Community, Health Committee, Water and Sanitation Committee, Anganwadi Board etc and iterated that the concept of communitisation is excellent but the coordination and monitoring part is lacking, thereby, resulting in gross misuse of funds meant for the villagers.
The Government of Nagaland had set up a panel for review of Communitisation of Public Institutions and Service Act 2002, Nagaland, to undertake impact assessment study, and to suggest measures for improvement.
And to fulfill this mandate YouthNet has been tasked to collect feedback of the community.
Mon district had been covered and accessed and presently Dimapur district is being surveyed.
