Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 24
Initiating from the Annual Plan 2009-10, the state government has formulated a scheme towards the uplift of women/girls through gender budgeting.
Through this flagship scheme, the Department of Fisheries laid emphasis on integrating women in fish farming through development process and activities by organizing awareness programme/capacity building and assisting the grassroots women as economic Self- Help Groups (SHGs) in providing inputs, additional returns/benefits towards pond management that directly sustains family livelihoods, economic development and food security of the members of the SHGs.
This was stated in the annual administrative report 2016-17 of the Fisheries Department tabled on the floor of the House today by Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries, Printing & Stationery, Shetoyi. The report stated that an amount of Rs. 5 lakh has been incurred during 2016-17 to organize sensitization programmes.
