Our Correspondent
Kohima | April 25
Altogether, there are 2, 43, 265 tax paying households under 1238 Village Development Boards (VDBs) in Nagaland during 2015-16, a manual of State’s Rural Development Department informed.
The district wise taxpaying households include; Kohima - 25, 108, Mokokchung - 25, 383, Mon - 29, 788, Tuensang - 23, 432, Zunheboto - 19, 364, Wokha - 17, 335, Phek - 21, 886, Dimapur - 36, 281, Kiphire - 15, 124, Longleng - 14, 314 and Peren - 15, 250.
“The state of Nagaland has been exempted from the purview of the 73rd Amendment of the Constitution due to the existence of traditional Local Self – Government bodies like the Village Councils and the VDBs,” stated Rural Development Director Metsübo Jamir in the manual.
He noted that the manual has been brought out to disseminate information about the vital importance of VDB model rules, procedures of implementing a village-wide approach to community and individual development schemes under state-plan and guidelines of micro-finance and brief note on grant-in-aid micro-finance, MGNREGA & IAY for the village councils and VDB in the implementation of rural development programmes.
All the recognized villages has a VDB to mobilize resources and implement the schemes through the involvement of village community, the activity of which are determined and selected on the basis of their felt needs, Jamir added. The manual also highlighted that all the activities of the department are implemented through the grass-root level organization, “The Village Development Board,” which has been active since its inception in 1980.
RD department has been involved in the activity of development of the rural areas of Nagaland through the implementation of various programmes and schemes with the objective of improving the economic and social living standards of the rural poor through employment generation and infrastructural development programmes, it further claimed.
The manual has also includes a section for the VDBs on preparation of planning and implementing of RD programme for in their respective jurisdiction.
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