One day training programme for frontline workers and a special outreach programme on centrally sponsored schemes were jointly organized by the World Vision and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Field Publicity Unit, Mon on March 11 at Totok Chingnyu Baptist Church.
In the training, CDF, WVI, Mon AP, Nockyam Wangnao said that the main objective of the training was to rededicate and serve for the welfare of the community.
He appealed to the village leaders and health workers to know their respective duties and responsibility to build a healthy society and added ‘in order to build a healthy society we require healthy people, and to develop a healthy people we need to nurture for healthy children’.
Speaking on centrally sponsored schemes, Field Publicity Officer (FPO/DFP) Mathew SK Bengam said that the directorate of field publicity is the mediators and communicators between the centre government and the public.
He informed that the main objective of the ministry of field publicity was to propagate the policies and programmes of various centrally sponsored schemes and programmes at the grass root level and to ensure that it reaches the targeted beneficiaries and to do away with corruptions.
Bengam also added that the joint programmes of the world vision, social welfare department, NRHM and field publicity has the same mission to work for the community development and urged the participants to disseminate the information to the people back at home.
Others who spoke in the programme were the CDPO, Mon Tongwang Konyak who spoke on the duties and functions of the Angawadi workers and helpers; Block Programme Officer, NRHM, Hingkai spoke on the duties and functions of the Asha workers; while Supervisor Longshitheong spoke on the maintenance of registers of the Angawadi workers. The programme concluded with discussion and evaluation.