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Shillong, September 7,2022: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday inaugurated the Mawryngkneng CHC in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong and MLA & MDC, Mawryngkneng, Pynaid Sing Syiem.

Expressing happiness in inaugurating the CHC, Transit Home for High Risk Pregnant Women and the SHG Mela, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said ‘women’ was the common factor in all the three factors.

“Women were facing a lot of maternity related problems like death during childbirth, multiple pregnancies, high risk pregnancies, anemia etc and there were many reasons attributed to these problems and the health and pregnancy of the woman was also connected to the economic activities of the women,” he said.

He further informed that the MOTHER programme (Meghalaya’s Outcome and Transformation in Health, Education and Rural Sector) was conceptualized to take care of the health, education and rural empowerment of women.

The Chief Minister also added that the Transit Home for High-Risk Pregnant Women is for giving shelter and care to pregnant women who live in far flung areas. “These transit homes give shelter, food and medical care so that they can have safe institutional deliveries and today we have 180 transit homes across the State giving service and care to the high risk mothers and those who live in far flung areas,” he added.He also said that the Self Help Group movement has empowered women in rural areas. “This is an achievement that most states in the country have not been able to achieve and this has been possible only because of the hard work that has been put in by the officials and the active participation of the women of the State,” he said.

He further added that the government is now looking at these Self Help Groups to be formed into cooperative societies so that more help and financial support can be given. “The Self Help Groups are very important to society because it also creates a system and mechanism where the government can reach every single household because of the large network of the Self Help Groups and help the people participate in various Health, Education and Environmental programmes of the government through these Self Help Groups,” he said.

The bed capacity at Mawryngkneng CHC has been increased from 6 to 30 and efforts will be taken to make the CHC conduct specialized services.To support the SHG Movement in the State of Meghalaya through the NRLM Program, the Chief Minister also sanctioned an amount of Rs 20 Crores as Community Investment Fund to be transferred to 896 Village Organisation across all the 12 Districts. The CIF Fund will benefit 4,676 SHGs impacting 46,700 HH’s in the State.

Out of the Rs. 20 crores, Rs. 4 crore is sanctioned to East Khasi Hills and Rs. 1 crore for Mawrynkneng Block. Five VOs from Mawrynkneng received the CIF Fund amounting to Rs. 43,00,000.

Community Investment Fund is a fund provided to SHGs through VOs, to enable individuals SHG members to take up various income generating activities. Through the SHG network MSRLS intend to promote 1st generation women entrepreneurs

In addition to Community Investment Fund, an amount of Rs. 5 lakhs Bank Loan was sanctioned during the occasion to 5 SHGs from Mawrynkneng Block.

Earlier, en route to Mawryngkneng, the Chief Minister also interacted with students and teachers from Presbyterian Secondary School, Mawlyngngad, St Mazarello Secondary School, Mawlyngngad, Mt Zion Secondary School, Sohryngkham and Green Hills Secondary School, Sohryngkham.

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.