Rural life at Zhavame village under Phek district. (Morung/Chizokho Vero File Photo: For representational purpose only)
Only 1.6% of surveyed villages have access to bank facilities
Our Correspondent
Kohima | August 25
While ambitious initiatives and schemes are being taken up to achieve 100% rural electrification in the country, 9 villages in Nagaland are still without electricity.
The electrification status is as per the survey report on Local/Block Level Statistics for Local Level Planning 2020 under Support for Statistical Strengthening (SSS), which was released today by the Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Nagaland.
At the State level, out of 1237 villages surveyed in Nagaland, there are 1228 villages which are being electrified while the remaining 9 villages do not have electricity connection.
Meanwhile, according to the survey report, Ekhyo Village under Wokha Block of Wokha District is the only village not connected by road while 55 villages in Nagaland are without PHED water supply.
Some other highlights of the report are as follows:
STATE LEVEL
• There are 47 villages which have access to Government bus service whereas 204 villages have private bus service.
• Mobile network services are available in all the 1237 villages whereas only 6% of the villages in Nagaland are connected with landline facilities.
• There are 207 villages which have village library facilities.
• About 41% of the villages in the State have Sub-Centre medical facilities whereas 0.6% of the villages in the State are having Community Health Centre.
• 21 villages in the State i.e. about 1.7% of villages are having at least one private clinic/hospital.
• About 7.9% of villages have a Government Veterinary Health Centre.
• There are 1016 villages having village council halls.
• 1018 villages are having separate playground facilities whereas 35 villages are having indoor stadiums.
• 96% of the villages are having Anganwadi Centre whereas 1212 villages have fair price shop facility.
• There are 1182 villages in the State which were connected with the PHED water supply.
• Public toilet facilities are availed by 48.6% of the villages in the State.
• 1.6% of the villages have access to bank facilities while 1.7% of the villages have access to ATM Booths.
• 1.7% of the villages are having Police Beat Post in the State.
• 9% of the surveyed villages have access to the Common Service Centre facility.
• Close to 95% of the villages in the state have at least one Self Help Group.
• 422 villages in the State have street lighting facilities.
DISTRICT LEVEL
• Kohima village under Kohima District has the highest number of basic amenities across the State whereas Ronren villages under Wokha District has the least number of basic amenities.
• One interesting finding was that in Wokha district 2 (two) villages- Mithehe under Changpang block and Yanlum under Ralan block receive electricity supply from the neighbouring Assam State Government.
• The survey data shows that on an average, Mokokchung District has the highest number of basic amenities available across the State which was followed by Kohima District. On the contrary, Kiphire district is the district availing least basic amenities.
• Dimapur District has the highest number of medical and educational institution facilities whereas Longleng district has the least in both the parameters.
• Dimapur District has the highest number of villages with 213 villages recognized under Rural Development Department whereas Longleng district has the least with 40 villages.
• Mokokchung and Tuensang districts have the highest number of RD blocks with 9 each.
