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Chief Minister attend the 83rd National Table Tennis Championship Closing Ceremony

Shillong, April 25: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Monday attended the Closing Ceremony of the 83rd National Table Tennis Championships at SAI Centre, NEHU.

Speaking at the 83rd National Table Tennis finale, the Chief Minister expressed his condolence to the family of Late Vishwa Deenadayalan, promising national paddler, who died in a tragic road accident on his way to Shillong to participate in the games.

Expressing his thanks to the organizers of the 83rd National Table Tennis Championships in the capital city of Shillong the Chief Minister highlighted the importance of Sports in the life of youngsters. “For policy makers, Sports is more than just a game as we have to direct and channelize the energies of the youth. We understand that Sports play a very important role in character building,” he said.

The values of hard work, team work, Sportsmanship are the values which are inherently shaped by Sports, he added.

“I truly believe that whenever there is an opportunity to provide a platform for youngsters to grow into the areas of Sports that they have passion for we must ensure that every step is taken to give them the push,” he said.

The Chief Minister also expressed happiness that the National Table Tennis Championships was held in the year when the State is celebrating its Golden Jubilee.

“We have many more programmes chalked out to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the State and these programmes will not just mark the 50th Year celebrations but provide a platform for the youth to showcase and promote their talents in the Sports, Music or Arts,” he added.

The Chief Minister later distributed the awards to the winners of the Men’s Singles. The winners in this category were 1st Achanta Sharath Kamal, 2nd Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and 3rd Shah Manush and Shetty Sanil Shankar.

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.