Chenwatnyu, a village under Mon district has completed 100 percent Corrugated Galvanised Iron (CGI) sheet roofing on all the households making it the first village in the district to attain such achievement.
Speaking to media persons, Chenwatnyu village chairman, PM Nockpai, said the total replacement of traditional ‘toku leave’ roofing with CGI sheets was possible when the village council joined hands with the Department of Rural Development, Nagaland under the Indira Awaas Yojana, a social welfare flagship programme, created by the Indian Government, to provide housing for the rural poor in India.
He said, in total around 3000 bundles of CGI sheets were utilised to provide roof to the 475 households of more than 4,000 population, which in itself was a huge task as the work was time bound since the village was getting ready to observe the golden jubilee of Chenwatnyu Baptist Church in the year 2010.
Adding that inspite of the village being located in a very remote location, Nockpai said, Chenwatnyu had always strived to set good examples by inculcating good habits.
Taking active role in keeping the village hygienic and environmentally clean, the students’ union conducts four major cleanliness drives annually wherein they distribute dustbins made from tree barks.
Apart from strictly adhering to the tobacco ban enforced by the village council, the students’ union enforces the ban by conducting regular inspections.
It may be mentioned here that Chenwatnyu is the first and only village in the district to fully install solar street lights in all the significant locations in the year 2014.
Besides restricting rearing of pigs in the open in the year 1985, the village also completed full sanitation in the year 2006.
The village is all set to be declared as a ‘green village’ in the month of April 2016 which will yet be another tremendous achievement considering the geographical disadvantage the village is situated in.