Yaongyimchen commemorates 5th anniversary of community project
Dimapur, Oct. 7 (EMN): State chief secretary, Pankaj Kumar, said that the hardest and most precious work of mankind was to shun violence and conflict with animals by adopting conservation of wild life and forestry.
He said this in his address at the International Wildlife Week celebration cum seminar on human animal conflict and 5 years commemoration programme of community projects in Yaongyimchen village on October 7.
Congratulating the villagers for successful implementation of bio-diversity conservation programme, Pangkaj said Yaongyimchen has come to occupy a special place in the global world because of her successful conservation of wildlife through their hard work and unity of the village without any assistance from the government. He stated that such achievement should be emulated by others.
Asserting that learning is a continuous process, he said the purpose of his visit was to learn from the people and to fill the gap between the people and the government, and to work jointly for proper implementation of government schemes in the future. He also lauded the village functionaries for judiciously utilising the VDB funds for the community development. He was optimistic that their hard work and dedication will not go in vain but will reap healthy harvest in the future with the intervention of the government agencies.
T Imkonglemba Ao, Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner, and Chairman of Nagaland Bamboo Mission, has encouraged the villagers not to get exhausted with their hard work but to continue their effort to promote community development for sustainable economic growth in the village. He informed the villagers that the government will focus more on the area and the people where there is people’s participation and exhorted them to nurture the God gifted resources wisely. He announced that international projects under his department would be launched in the State shortly and expressed confident that the villages will be benefited from the project.
Roy P Thomas, Joint Director (Wildlife), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India; and Y Denngan Avennoho Phom, Deputy Commission, Longleng, also spoke and exhorted the villagers.
Beizo, DEF Longleng, spoke on Wildlife Protection Act and their implications, while Satya Prakash Tripathi, Chief Wildlife Warden (PCCF), delivered a short speech.
State chief secretary inaugurated the Pendo Langpu Bridge that connects Dikhu River leading to bio-diversity conservation and Traveller’s Resting Hut on National Highway 702; while the principal secretary inaugurated the community agri-link road and Peyong Malong Resting Hut at Liok.
The chief secretary and the principal secretary also released a booklet on wild species found under the conservation area and Colocasia Esculenta Species, an indigenous food of Yaongyimchen village respectively.
According to the booklet 37 species of birds, 59 species of butterflies and 12 species of wild animals have been found and identified under the bio-diversity conservation.
It may be mentioned here that the community bio-diversity conservation programme was launched by the Lemsachenlok, a development society under three villages namely Yaongyimchen, Alayong and Sanglu in the year 2012 in commemoration of golden jubilee celebration of Yaongyimchen Students’ Union. All the activities of the bio-diversity conservation were done by the efforts and contribution of the village people. The programme was organised to highlight the achievement of the bio-diversity projects to the government.
