Guwahati: Chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu on Wednesday officially inaugurated the Tana Agyang View Point in the Lower Subansiri district at Ziro.
CM Khandu visited the lower Subansiri, Kamle, upper Subansiri, West Siang and Shi Yomi districts as part of an official trip.
The project which has a view of the Tahing Lampii cave is being carried out by MGNREGA employment cardholders in collaboration with the Tayang Sukung and Nago Arang gramme panchayats. The cutting-edge, financially viable plan that the Habung Welfare Society supports is a great illustration of a convergence mode driven by the community.
Khandu set the project’s foundation stone in January of last year.
Khandu said the project has set the trend of convergence mode of project implementation and urged others to follow suit.
“A total of Rs 20.75 lakh was utilized for the project, which was sourced from various programs like the MGNREGA, ‘My village, My development Plan’, 14th FC Grant, APEDA, state government resources and voluntary contributions from members of the Habung Welfare Society. This indeed is one of the best projects implemented through convergence mode. People of Ziro have shown a way forward,” he said.
The chief minister added that it not only required the involvement of local communities but also prevented the squandering of tax dollars.
“If this same project would have been implemented under the sole jurisdiction of the state government in accordance with the old way of implementing projects, it would have cost the government exchequer not less than a crore,” he observed.
Khandu guaranteed that the promised money for the site’s further development would be released shortly.
Additionally, he stated that he would invite people from other communities to tour the project once it had been further developed and finished so that they could conduct a case study on the convergence model there.
“Convergence model is the best way forward. People of the rest of the communities should learn to take advantage of this model to develop their respective areas. I have been rooting for a convergence model with all executing agencies of government departments, district administrations and community leaders for years,” Khandu said.