Meghalaya Govt propose to enrol Village Volunteer: Conrad

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaApril 21, 2023

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma informed the Government proposed to enrol Village Volunteers in each and every village in the State who will act as representatives of the government in the village.

Having village volunteers is one among the many reforms and changes in the State administration in the days ahead, Sangma told a gathering of bureaucrats in Hotel Pinewood Shillong on Friday.

The Chief Minister said they will have about 6500 volunteers in every village who will be connected with the government through central database to help the government get real time information and update on everything that is happening in the village.

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He further elaborated that these village volunteers can inform the government in times of emergency like floods, landslides, disruption of power and water when a transformer blows up or pipeline bursts.

Sangma said the village volunteer can also be an important banking correspondent so that old age pensions, assistance to persons with disabilities and other schemes of the government can reach the person to the doorstep with the beneficiaries having to frequent the block offices or banks.

“These volunteers at the grassroots level will also be connected to different self help group programmes so that delivery will be easier and faster so that the villagers who need the basic services of Certificates, schemes and development should not face the different challenges we have in our administrative system,” he said.

He also spoke of the need to empower and strengthen the Gram Sevaks and look into how to improve the existing working system of the Gram Sevaks.