The inaugural program of Nsong Community Development Plan (CDP) under North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) was held at Nsong village on September 26.
According to a press release from NERLP DPM (Peren), Ruuvilie Kotsu, organized by the Community Development Group (CDG) and the Village Council, the CDP on ‘land reclamation by large cardamom cultivation and providing irrigation facility for vegetable farming’ has been successfully implemented by the community.
The short program was graced by Tsutsowe Kupa, EAC Nsong circle attended by the Village elders, SHG members and staff of NERLP Peren.
On the occasion, Ruuvilie Kotsu, DPM NERLP Peren congratulated the villagers for the successful implementation of the CDP and lauded the villagers for their unity towards completing the activity. He challenged the villagers to understand the utility of the asset created and plan for managing these assets themselves in the long run.
He said a saturated total of 1033 SHG’s have been formed in the district where Rs.14 crores have been “supported as” seed and livelihood funds to the SHGs in the district. 130 SHG credit linkage to banks have been done and another 120 SHG’s are in the process of documentation for credit linkage. The total savings of SHG in the district is around 2 crores and 36 SHGVFs has generated interest from the corpus of more than Rs. 1 lakh and above.
Tsutsowe Kupa, in his speech, lauded the villagers saying that Peren was fortunate to have NERLP working in their District as India is a welfare state and projects like NERLP are externally funded and does not have a State share, hence are more efficient. He also asked the SHG Federation and village council to pledge to unite and make a roadmap to progress ahead for their sustainability.
The program was chaired by the CDG president, invocation was said by the local pastor, the VCC welcomed the gathering and a short speech was delivered by the chairman.
The total cost of the project was Rs. 12, 62,300 where NERLP gave Rs. 10,00,000 and Rs. 2,62,300 was the community’s contribution in terms of unskilled labor and local materials for the successful completion of the activity.