SHILLONG:
Meghalaya State Rural Livelihood Society (MSRLS) the Nodal Agency under the Department of Community & Rural Development (C&RD) for implementation of the National Rural Livelihood Mission on Monday launched the Social Mobilisation Campaign “Sangathan Se Samriddhi” as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava 2.0 (AKAM) nationwide movement at the Main Conference Hall, Secretariat, Shillong.
This campaign aims to accelerate the pace of the saturation drive and mobilise all left-out eligible households into the Self-Help Group (SHG) fold as well as reviving those groups who are inactive. Further, it also seeks to ensure all eligible women from the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAY-G) and MGNREGA scheme beneficiary households are brought into the SHG Movement.
The programme was chaired by the Principal Secretary, of Community & Rural Development Sampath Kumar, and co-chaired by Ramakrishna, Chief Executive Officer Meghalaya State Rural Livelihood Society, and attended by others from various line departments, NABARD, banks, and NGOs.
Deputy Commissioners, Project Directors Block Development Officers, and MSRLS Functionaries attended the program online from their respective Districts and Blocks.
The Principal Secretary impressed upon the fact that the SHG Movement is a strong mechanism, and they should leverage this to bring about socio-economic improvements in the rural community.
The campaign is a three-month-long programme initiated from April 18 to June 30, 2023, under the aegis of the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India.
To date, 44000 Self Help Groups (SHGs) has been formed in the state of Meghalaya covering 90 percent of the eligible rural household, and through this campaign the MSRLS intends to form an additional 4889 SHGs by mobilising the left-out household which has been mapped across all the 12 districts.