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Training for village committee members

By Our Staff Reporter

TUTICORIN, DEC. 23. The Collector, V. Chandrasekaran, inaugurated a special training programme for members of various village committees under `Namadhu Gramam' scheme 2004-05 at a function held at Melathattaparai near here on Tuesday.

Collectorate sources told media persons that the training was aimed at empowering village committees to carry out objectives envisaged in the `Namadhu Gramam' scheme, launched by the Department of Rural Development recently.

The resource persons, deployed to train the committee members, were initially trained at Regional Institute of Rural Training near Madurai. They were trained on techniques to reduce infant mortality, achieving cent per cent enrolment of children into schools, poverty alleviation and improving village sanitation, through public participation.

Explaining details of the scheme, the sources said 408 panchayats in the district would be motivated through incentives in the forms of funds, which were meant for establishing link roads and streetlights, apart from providing protected drinking water to residents.

The scheme aims at a holistic development with special focus on areas such as education, water, sanitation, health, social security and environment.

Under the `Namadhu Gramam' scheme, trees would be planted along roads, plastic materials would be recycled, child labour eradicated and solid waste management project would be implemented.

On the social front, the scheme aims at preventing atrocities against women and promotion of communal harmony.

The idea is that by adopting these strategies, each village in the district could be turned into a `self-reliant unit'.

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