Meghalaya Rural Development Society changing life in villages.Byline: ANI Shillong, Feb.18 (ANI): The Meghalaya Rural Development Society (MRDS MRDS - Multics Relational Data Store ) programme is making a major difference to the lives of poor and backward people in villages here. Jointly funded by government and the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), the Meghalaya Rural Development Society (MRDS) aims to help villagers in a sustainable manner through promotion of improved livelihood opportunities and strengthening local institutions that relate to livelihood development. The MRDS has been able to benefit several unemployed villagers in the South Garo Hills The Garo Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi range in Meghalaya, India. They are inhabited mainly by tribal dwellers. Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, is located in this range. It is one of the wettest places in the world. in Meghalaya, in the remotest and most backward district of the state. "The farmers benefit in capacity building after we give them training and provide relevant information. We expose them to different technologies and enable them to choose which technology suits them better and they are confident enough to undertake," said Panseng R. Marak, Project Manager, Meghalaya Rural Development Society (MRDS), South Garo Hills. "I use to go to the village to give training in areas like family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. , nutrition and health sanitation especially for the gender. That's the training I give to the people. It's like an awareness," said Lily Sangma, MRDS official, South Garo Hills. The Meghalaya Rural Development Society holds meetings and awareness programmes to educate and help people in economic development, education, health, cultivation, savings, forming of women groups. It helps them, directly or indirectly, and enhances villagers' capabilities while encouraging them as well to benefit from banking activities such as saving and borrowing. "The project has helped us, we bring fish from the market and cultivate in the fishery, after that we sell it and distribute the money among the members of our group," said Mitha M. Sangma, a local resident in South Garo Hills. "We took loans through MRDS. We are working in poultry and pig farms and we have also taken part in a training programme in Shillong," said Forman Sangma, a local resident. The whole project covers 14 selected Blocks in five districts of the state-East Khasi Hills The Khasi Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi range in Meghalaya, India, and is part of the patkai range and of the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion. The region is inhabited mainly by tribal Khasi dwellers, which are traditionally in various chieftainships, petty states , Jaintia Hills, East Garo Hills, South Garo Hills, and Ri-Bhoi district. The programme has come as a boon to the villagers and has given the area an economic facelift and much-needed development. By Peter Alex Todd(ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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