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Chief Minister inaugurates two healthcare centres in West Garo Hills

Tura, January 14, 2022: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Friday inaugurated two healthcare centres in West Garo Hills – Community Health Centre (CHC) at Bhaitbari and Public Health Centre (PHC) at Chibinang in presence of MLAs S.G. Esmatur Mominin and Abdus Saleh.

Speaking at the inaugural function at Bhaitbari, the Chief Minister stated that the Government is committed to ensure better health services to the people of the region and the inauguration of the new CHC is testimony of the Government’s efforts to make quality healthcare accessible to the people.

The CHC building was completed a few years back, however, the process to upgrade the PHC to CHC was delayed.

The Chief Minister expressed happiness that the long pending demand of the people for the upgradation of the Bhaitbari PHC could finally be realised and assured that the Government will provide all support for manpower, equipment, accommodation for staff and other necessities required for the CHC to function efficiently.

Inaugurating the new PHC at Chibinang, he said that the Govt has been working to upgrade health care facilities across the State. He said that the Govt has made investment to provide better healthcare services.

He told the gathering that Covid-19 pandemic had posed a challenge for the Govt but the Govt with a synergetic effort is working to create better health care facilities. He also informed that Govt is committed to ensure overall upgradation of health care services in the State.

Earlier in the day, the Chief Minister inspected the Water Treatment Plant at Bolbokgre village under Bhajamara CS Circle of Selsella C&RD Block, West Garo Hills.  The project implemented under JJM, Ministry of Jal Shakti, GoI has enabled several villages by providing safe drinking water under Bhajamara GS Circle benefiting hundreds of households.  During the inspection the Chief Minister visited different households to witness household tap connections in the area.

He later had interaction with villagers of the village and assured that the Government is committed to fast track development in the region.

He also inspected the proposed site for construction of a new PHC at Batabari in West Garo Hills.

Initiatives : Agriculture

Launch of “Restart Meghalaya Mission’ on 15th August 2020

The Mission comprise of a series of interventions to support farmers and entrepreneurs by enabling them to build growth-promoting basic infrastructure and services. Under this Mission, 1917iTEAMS – the IT Platform aimed at enabling farmers access to agricultural information, crop advisories and markets will be expanded logistically through induction of another 100 vehicles.

Creation of the Directorate of Food Processing on May 2018

With the objective of seizing opportunities in the sector and the untapped food processing potential of the state for uplifting the livelihoods of farmers and value chain actors, the Government of Meghalaya created the Directorate of Food Processing (DFP) as a one-stop agency to handle all matters relating to food processing in the state and to deal with all central government Ministries and Agencies (viz. Ministries of Agriculture, and Food Processing, SFAC, NCDC, NABARD, etc.) in all matters pertaining to the development of agricultural food processing sector.

First Ever Farmer’s Parliament held on 4th - 5th December 2018

The parliament was organised by the state department of agriculture in collaboration with Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) and the Hill Farmers' Union (HFU). As a step toward the promotion of new technologies, HFU with the support of Meghalaya government, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence App for farmers — called Nongrep (nongrep in Khasi language means farmer) with its software partner Impetus Solutions from Hyderabad — as a social innovation project. This app will address matters of farm aggregations, soil health and disease identification, crop yield, farm produce pickups, market linkage and retail sellers app.

Launch of the Farmer’s Portal on 7th May 2018

The Meghalaya Famers’ Portal (www.megfarmers.gov.in) of the Department of Agriculture is a platform for farmers to seek any information related to agriculture. Detailed information on farmers’ insurance, agricultural storage, crops, extension activities, seeds, pesticides, farm machineries, etc. is provided. Details of fertilizers, market prices, package and practices, programmes, welfare schemes are also given.

Awards & Recognitions
  • Meghalaya has been selected for the Commendation award in 'Total foodgrains Category-III' for 2017-18. The award consists of a citation and an amount of Rs. 1 crore.
  • Meghalaya Agriculture Department and the MIE Meghalaya Team won the '7th eNabling North East (eNorth East) Award 2019-20' in the 'Agriculture & Rural Development' category for 1917 iTEAMS project which is a project in collaboration with Digital India.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi awarded Meghalaya on May 2018 the Krishi Commendation Award for the year 2015-16, in recognition of the commendable foodgrains production achieved by the State.
  • Meghalaya has been adjudged the Most Improved Small State in the category of Agriculture and received the India Today – "The State of the States” Award on 23rd November 2018.