Shillong, Aug 15: Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has announced new initiatives like CM-ELEVATE and CM-CONNECT to improve governance.
The CM-ELEVATE is a new flagship programme of the state government for
engagement, employment and empowerment of the youth.
Conrad told the gathering during the Independence Day celebrations at Polo Ground on Tuesday that the Chief Minister’s ELEVATE programme will be a single window for all business needs of the entrepreneurs. Under the programme, the government will provide support to the tune of 35 to 75 percent to individual entrepreneurs, collectives, village organizations and traditional institutions to take up businesses. This initiative covers procurement of agriculture vehicles including mini trucks and refer vans, tourism vehicles including caravans, luxury cars, electric cars and minibuses, construction of warehouses, common facility centres, green tourism villas, building of poly houses for horticulture, and setting up of piggery, poultry, goat rearing and dairy units.
He said the projects like construction of cinema halls, health clubs, music studios, Sports and youth engagement related businesses can all be taken up under the CM- ELEVATE programme
“The government will provide the subsidy and complete handholding support to
businesses in collaboration with the banks. We target to support about 20,000
business under this programme in the next five years”, he said.
The foundation of all growth-promoting efforts is good governance.
“We had been implementing several initiatives to improve governance through decentralization and technology enablement. One of my dreams is to ensure that government services are delivered at the doorstep of every citizen at the right time, even in the remotest village. “To achieve this, we will deploy Village Community and Data Facilitators in every village of the state. These individuals will be from the local area and will function as a single point of contact for all citizen services and grievances. All these citizen-centric interventions will be implemented under the banner of a new programme called CM- CONNECT”, he said.
Family ID
Another powerful tool to improve service delivery is to have a strong citizen registry for the state. This registry will enable the government departments to identify programme beneficiaries and deliver assistance in a seamless manner.
“To achieve this, we will launch a Family ID programme, under which every citizen and family of the state will be enumerated. Support offered under flagship programmes like FOCUS, YESS Meghalaya will be delivered to eligible beneficiaries through the Family ID programme”, he added.
