Mawkyrwat, July 28: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Wednesday visited Mawkyrwat in South West Khasi and took part in various community led interventions being initiated by the Government.
At Mawsde village, the Chief Minister inaugurated the functional household tap connections, where about 25 households in the small hamlet are covered under Jal Jeevan Mission (JMM) in the presence of PHE Minister Renikton Lyngdoh and also interacted with the beneficiaries.
He also attended an interaction programme with the Producers Group (PG) under PRIME Meghalaya, an initiative of the Meghalaya Basin Management Agency (MBMA) at Mawkyrwat DC office campus.
Had fruitful interactions with Producer Group beneficiaries of Mawkyrwat block in #SouthWestKhasiHills & distributed cheques to 15 PGs of Bayleaf, Honey & Broom grass comprising of 186 members. @nstomar pic.twitter.com/M1kaDIWshr
— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) July 28, 2021
During the programme, the PGs expressed their concerns related to farming, upscaling and market linkages.
The Chief Minister gave a patient hearing and expressed Government’s commitment to leverage farming activities by extending financial support. He said that farmers should come together and increase their productivity, which will enable them to sell their produce in a more effective manner.
He also told the gathering about the Chief Minister’s Producer Group Support Program (CM-PGS) which will facilitate farmers to increase their production, improve productivity, facilitate credit linkages and strengthen access to markets for the producers engaged in activities such as farming, livestock rearing and related activities.
During the programme, he also handed over cheques to 15 different groups, who came together to form the PGs to upscale their farming activities and double their incomes.
“I have been personally visiting different parts of the State to understand and address the problems of our farmers, so that we can plan and formulate policies that are pro-farmer and pro-people,” he said.
