Mon DPDB meeting

Mon district planning & development board (DPDB) meeting was held under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner, Mon Angau I Thou on March 15 at DC’s conference hall, Mon.

DC in her welcome address, thanked all HODs/nodal officers for peaceful conduct of election in Mon district, stating the recently concluded assembly election concluded peacefully because of the consolidate efforts of the HODs/nodal officers, government officials and NGOs of the district who rendered their sincere service.

She appealed to the DPDB members to uphold the same team spirit and to be prepared for the Lok Sabha election scheduled next year.

AEO, Mon Joybell, thanked RO, AROs, sector magistrate, master trainers, polling personnel, and all the government officials who were engaged in election duty.

Reviewing the last meeting minutes, DC urged ADC Naginimora and DFO, Mon to immediately submit the status report of coal mining at Kongan and Tiru for further necessary action.

Highlighting 5 villages as tourist attractive spots under Mon district, she urged the administrative officers and the tourism officer, Mon to prepare a concept note of these villages for inclusion in the tourist map of Nagaland.

She also urged the EE, PHED Mon to submit a concept report of water supply to Mon and Tizit town and asked all DEO & SDEOs to strictly implement mid-day meal at least 5-days a week and to identify schools that need up-gradation.

DCO (culture), Mon; DPO (land resource), Mon and principal DIET gave power point presentation about their respective departments.

In his presentation, principal DIET, Yevito Sema reported that there was inadequate staff/senior lectures as a result of which, the institution was running with only 11 staff and a single senior lecturer at present.

He informed that as per the norms, there should be 17 staff inclusive of 7 senior lecturers.  Yevito also informed that a major chunk of the teachers in the district were untrained, besides poor response from in-service teachers to undergo training in DIET which may be due to presence of proxy teachers.

He also said that the number of pre-service teachers’ trainings declined after the government fixed 45% as qualifying marks for PSTT.

In this regard, the board had a lengthy discussion to do away with proxy teachers and the need for quality education at primary level.

DC also informed that next DPDB meeting cum felicitation for elected members would be held on April 15 at DC’s conference hall, Mon. She directed DEO (education) and DFO (forest), Mon to present their departmental activities both in hard and soft copy in the next meeting.