Go to Village Mission : CM stresses role of elected representatives
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Imphal, April 09 2018: Chief Minister N Biren Singh has said that elected representatives of Panchayati Raj institutes of the State will be involved in the State Government's 'Go to the Village' mission.

He was speaking as the chief guest at the inauguration function of the Capacity Building Programme for elected women representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions of the State at the Sangai Hall of Hotel Imphal today.

The programme was organised by National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD & PR), Hyderabad with the assistance from State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), Manipur under the aegis of National Commission for Women (NWC).

N Biren Singh said that capacity building would play an important part in creating awareness, imparting rights and facilities to the citizens regarding various rural development flagship programmes of the Government.

The Chief Minister expressed hope that the programme would help build sustainable capacities locally for the welfare of women in the State.

N Biren said that he has been informed that the training modality requires initial training of 22 Master Trainers, who in turn would train a group of women elected representatives with a group aggregate not exceeding 30 members in each case.

The Panchayat election was held in the State in October last year.

As such, the training programme has come at an appropriate time to sensitize the newly elected women representatives, namely 67 Pradhans, 787 Ward Members and 26 Zilla Parishad Members, the Chief Minister said.

He said that building such awareness and capacity would help change societal attitudes towards women and bring about positive development on the status of women in the State.

Stating that SIRD has been doing good work in giving training to elected representatives, the Chief Minister said that he has been told that SIRD has conducted 522 training programmes for the elected representatives and official functionaries during 2017-18 financial year.

Speaking at the occasion as the president, RD & PR Minister Th Biswajit said that women have been taking an active role in different fields in the State.

It is a matter of pride that there is huge number of elected women representatives in the Panchayati Raj institutions of the State.

As they need to be trained, the capacity building programme was conducted under National Commission for Women Act, 1990, he said while adding that the training programme would make the women elected representatives aware about their rights and responsibilities.

Speaking on the occasion, Chairperson of National Commission for Women, Rekha Sharma stressed on the need to provide opportunities to womenfolk to take part in different fields.

She informed that Manipur is the third State after Rajasthan and Jharkhand where similar capacity building programmes have been launched.

NIRD & PR Deputy Director General Radhika Rastogi and Additional Chief Secretary (RD & PR) MH Khan also attended the function as guests of honour.

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