Morung Express News
Dimapur | November 24
An NGO, the Confederation of Community Based Organisations of India (CCBO) Regional office Nagaland was today inaugurated by Umesh C Gaud, National Chairman of CCBO, at Vernal Estate, Mount View Colony, Purana Bazaar in Dimapur.
Speaking as the chief guest, Gaud said NGOs are not a money-making agency for individuals, but rather it is an organisation that works for the welfare of the weaker section of the society.
Referring to the CCBO, the national chairman said it was formed at Chattisgarh, to safeguard the rights of the rural people and to empower them through different activities. He made it clear that the CCBO is a platform to address the plight of the rural people and not a funding agency. Gaud maintained that the people’s faith in the functioning of the Government is slowly declining, so different NGOs are cropping up to highlight the grievances of people to the government. “CCBO is a medium through which rural people can enjoy development,” he said adding, “we will work to improve the living standard of rural people in the country.”
O L Momin, National Vice-Chairman of CCBO and Regional Chairman, said that CCBO would make sure that each and every people of Nagaland can reap the benefits of the organisation. He continued that the NGO has signed various memorandum of understanding with different institutions to help the ‘grassroot’ people. He, however, asked the people to Nagaland to extend full cooperation and support to the organisation in its endeavours towards developing rural people in the State. Others who spoke on the occasion included, P Sharma, Regional Chief Coordinator and National Executive Director, and Chaitali Chettri, Regional Joint Secretary.
The programme was chaired by Dihilo, while Rev. Z Yabang Aier invoked God’s blessing. Arenla Toshi, Chairperson of CCBO Nagaland, welcomed the gathering and Inakhu Chishi, Assistant General Secretary of CCBO Nagaland, proposed the vote of thanks.
Later, a seminar on ‘Revitalizing Society’ was held at the Indigenous Cultural Society Centre Nagaland at City Tower junction, in Dimapur. The seminar was organised by the CCBO, where social activist Dr. Hesheto Y Chishi spoke on the theme. Dr. Chishi said, “Today, we are in enculturation period, affixed between modern and traditional, western and eastern, technology and manual, developed and underdeveloped, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, privileged and underprivileged, men and women and forward and backward, and written and oral. Past tradition seems too old for youngsters and the advent of modern civilisation appears to be a subject of resent past to aged people, during which gap of communication, a cultural commotion has been created resulting in the ultimate loss of culture.”
“Our NEI society is an agro literate cultural society and the language, life and habit of the people is rooted in agriculture. Language depicts a stable relationship between the nature and culture of the people where nature does not only represent the raw material but also act as inter webbed reality of a human society,” Dr. Chishi added. He also spoke on some issues including basic facts of today’s social problems, observation of alarming facts of diminishing egalitarian society, figure of present scenario and social concern.
Speaking about NGOs, he said the organisations should have commitment to work for the welfare of the people and should sacrifice time. He pointed out that CCBO is very keen to help people to overcome social hurdles. “It is we who can bring change,” he concluded.
