Staff recruitment for oil palm project begins
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, September 13 2023:
Central government is in full mission mode to promote oil palm plantation projects in North Eastern states under its National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO OP), which is a centrally sponsored scheme aimed to make India self-reliant in edible oils.
In Manipur the Mission was launched in November 2020 with the project taken up at Jiribam district.
An MoU was signed with agri-business firm Godrej Agrovet on August 2022 for implementation of the project in the state with the company taking a big role in development of oil palm cultivation and promotion.
It can be mentioned that Godrej Agrovet is one of the biggest oil palm processors and directly works with oil palm cultivators.
Under NMEO-OP, the central government will provide 60 per cent of the fund for the Mission and the state government bear 40 per cent of the project costs.
However, for NE the centre's share will be 90 per cent and states' 10 per cent, while in Union Territories it will be 100 per cent centrally sponsored.
In connection with NMEO-OP, Directorate of Agriculture has now started recruitment of staff for successful implementation of the scheme.
Despite the crisis situation in the state, the Directorate has issued a recruitment advertisement on Wednesday according to which application form will be available on its website - http://agrimanipur.com.
The application form which is for contractual posts of technical assistant, office assistant, grade IV, and data entry operator should be submitted by September 25 at NMEO-OP nodal officer at Directorate of Agriculture, Sanjenthong.
In connection with NMEO-OP, Directorate of Agriculture has now started recruitment of staff for successful implementation of the scheme.
Despite the crisis situation in the state, the Directorate has issued a recruitment advertisement on Wednesday according to which application form will be available on its web-site-http://agrimanipur.com.
The application form which is for contractual posts of technical assistant, office assistant, grade-IV, and data entry operator should be submitted by September 25 at NMEO-OP nodal officer at Directorate of Agriculture, Sanjenthong.