Skill development workshop
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 14 2016 :
All Tribal Disabled Union Manipur
(ATDUM) organized a one day skill development workshop on
"Tribal Youth & Skill Development" at Manipur Press Club today
under the sponsorship of Tribal Research Institute (TRI), Manipur.
According to a statement, K Joychandra, Director of ICM
was the resource person, and Sodirani Yumnam from
Dewlahland presided the programme.
In his welcome address and short speech, Momo Tantanga,
president of ATDUM highlighted the importance and relevance
of the workshop.
He also lauded the role of TRI for organizing
such workshops to promote the talent of tribal youths.
Resource
person while speaking on the occasion, deliberated on the
importance of engaging in different fields of entrepreneurship
like poultry, piggery, fishery, etc.
He mainly encouraged in
farming horticulture crops and fruits in hill areas of the State.
Hill people can engage in farming of passion fruits, grapes,
mango of different varieties, mushroom, pomegranate etc under
different departments like Horticulture, Agriculture, Fishery,
etc.
He said that only 10% of hill population enquired and knew
about different schemes at the offices of their districts; the rest
has failed to enquire or has no knowledge of the schemes.
As
such, the offices and schemes remain useless for the masses,
the farmers.
Altogether, 67 tribal youths and children participated in the workshop.