A felicitation programme for the best performing villages for Kohima and Tseminyu districts under Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2023, was held at the conference hall, PHED Kohima Rural Division, AG colony, Kohima on September 14.
A press release from PHED, Kohima division informed that the best performing villages from Kohima district were: Khonoma, Kohima village, Tuophema, Viswema, Zhadima, while for Tseminyu district: Zisunyu, Zumpha (CRBC), Sewanu, Tesophenyu New, Nsunyu, Chunlika village were recognized for their outstanding work under SBM (G).
The recognition to the best performers was done on the basis of scores attained during the annual village level self-assessment and peer verification.
The Executive Engineers, PHED Rural Division and PHED Urban Division Kohima, Er. Subongyanger and Er. Neilhoukholie Chielie gave away certificates of recognition to the best performers.
Er. Subongyanger while encouraging the WATSAN committee, informed that by 2024 all the villages will be declared as ODF plus model villages. He also urged the villagers to cooperate with the department and undertake activities to achieve the target.
Sharing a brief note on SSG 2023 district coordinator PHED, Kohima Division, Ashale Seb stated that SSG 2023 was geared towards garnering wide participation at Gram Panchayat (GP), district and state level, which will create enthusiasm towards SBM (G) Phase II and ODF Plus initiatives.
Seb said that building on the success of the earlier efforts, it was proposed to significantly intensify the SSG efforts, and make it much more participative and competitive in design. She added that the continued participation of the GPs throughout the year in the SBM (G) ODF Plus programme to work on ODF Plus initiatives and bring steady improvements in their performance against key ODF Plus indicators was the main objective of 2023.
The programme was chaired by WASH consultant, PHED Rural Division, Virhelie Kruneilie. All performing VCC and WATSAN were present along with PHE officials and staff. WATSAN chairman, Kohima Village, Ruokuovituo Kire and WATSAN chairman, Chunlikha, Zunenlo Thong also shared their success stories.