MOMA begins skilling of displaced people
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 26 2023:
To enable displaced people who are currently taking shelter in different relief camps to generate income on their own, Manipur Organic Mission Agency (MOMA) under the aegis of horticulture & soil conservation department is extending support and imparting skill development training in this regard.
MOMA is targeting to provide hand helping support to more than 5,000 people directly affected by the ongoing violence and currently taking shelter in relief camps both in the hills and valley.
A team of MOMA officials led by project director K Devdutta has begun collecting data of displaced people who are interested and familiar with horticulture and agriculture activities.
On the first day, the team interacted with inmates of relief camp opened at Manipur Trade & Expo Centre, Lamboi Khongnangkhong and collected data of 100 displaced people.
The team then visited the relief camp at Phayeng Ching Khunou Club and collected similar data for the special programme being taken up by state government for some districts affected by the violence.
In the first phase, the programme will be taken up in one valley district and three hill districts.
The districts are Imphal West in the valley and Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Tengnoupal in the hills.
For Churachandpur district, the data will be collected from inmates of relief camps opened at Saikot JB School, Youth hostel at Hiangtam Lamka and M Songgel Church.
For Kangpokpi district, the data will be collected from inmates of Henbung, ITI and DIET Leikop relief centres.
For Tengnoupal district, the data will be collected from inmates of relief camps opened at Moreh KIP, 5 AR, Phaibung and Tengnoupal district headquarter.
A total of 5365 inmates will be given opportunity in the first phase.
The programme 'Skill development and handholding support on agri-horticulture livelihood activities for displaced persons' opened on Saturday at Lamboi Khongnangkhong relief camp was also attended by commissioner (horti & soil conservation) T Panmei.
Regarding the programme, K Devdutta said that MOMA initiated the special programme after thorough dis cussion on its responsibility to help violence affected people following a meeting convened by chief minister N Biren Singh on August 19 with officials of various departments to find out economic activities for displaced people.
To provide livelihood means and economic activities to displaced people, data is being collected first to identify past profession of the inmates and whether they had vocational training earlier or they are interested in taking up horti-agriculture activities like mushroom cultivation, bee keeping, vermi-compost making, sapling preparation an d integrated farming.
Based on the collected data, a training module for the inmates will be developed and special training with handholding support will be provided by resource persons from Indian Council of Agricultural Research, College of Food Technology and Central Agricultural University.
Trained inmates will not only be given opportunity under the government's 'one family one livelihood' scheme but also will be allowed to be beneficiary of other government schemes, if familiar, Devdutta added.