FGI Director impressed by new women Groups...

Mr. Manjit Singh Bali & Atul Tayeng in Bomjir village along with new women groups under Dambuk Circle.

(from left) Nawang Gurung, Asst. Academic Director (Himalayan region) FGGS,  Interact with Mr. Manoj Kr. (right side) one of student of Class 2017 in presence of Mr. Omak Apang, Chairperson (FGA).

RKS MEET

A Rogi Kalyan Samiti (RKS) meeting was held at PHC Sille on June 10, 2011 in presence of Medical Officer i/c and RKS members. After a long threadbare discussion, the following points were approved by the RKS member for the session 2011-12.

• The selection procedure for ASHA facilitator will be done by the PHC staff.
• Onwards, the post of chairman will be held by ASM and the ASHA will be secretary for smooth functioning of RKS committee.
• Any RKS member who miss the RKS meeting consecutive for trice a times. S/he will be automatically dissolve from the RKS list.
• Regarding RKS fund utilization viz. corpus, annual maintenance and untied fund and execution of planning work will be look after by the MO i/c who is the Co-Chairman (RKS). However, the chairman & the secretary will monitor the work.

In any other agenda, the RKS member congratulated the PHC staffs for their sincerity and dedication in the improvement of work and urging them to keep up the spirit for the welfare of the communities in coming days.
Earlier, Ms Anyak Mize, PPP Coordinator, explained about the purpose of the meeting and said that without participation of RKS members and the local communities , the management of hospital will not be satisfactory. Hence felt that timely RKS meeting and the participation of its member in the meeting is must.

Lets hope for the best!

On December 11, 2010 (Saturday) an emergency meeting of Master Coordinating Committee [MCC] of Future Generations Arunachal [FGA] was held under the Chairperson, Mr. Byabang Rocket to take a decision on recruitment of full-time Executive Director, FGA. At first, a letter from Future Generations [USA] & from Mr. Nalong Mize was placed in front of the board members. The members who were attended in the meeting had a long discussion on criteria for the selection/recruitment of ED and finally following decision were taken in the house.

1. A proper advertisement should be publish in newspaper. A deadline for receipt of applications was fixed up to December 31, 2010 and the recruitment process will be completed in the month of January 2011. Requisite qualities and experience was also clearly indicated in the advertisement.
2. Selection committee was formed for the recruitment of Executive Director.
3. Candidate's applications copy will be send to selection committee members for scrutiny.
   

Board Meeting

The half-yearly meeting of the board of Future Generations Arunachal (FGA) - the Master Coordinating Committee (MCC) was conducted in the SIRD Conference Hall on September 11 last. The staff implementing various projects presented their reports.

Later in the afternoon, the members discussed various issues that the organization is facing and chalked out steps to strengthen it so that the task of bringing about a sustainable development in the state is continued.

Hibu Tatu was elected as the Vice Chairman of the board. Two new members - Rakesh Shrivastava of State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) and Kabak Tani of North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (NEDFi), who were selected in the last meeting joined this time.

PHC Review Meeting

The half-yearly review meeting of the Primary Health Center, Sille, which is being managed by Future Generations Arunachal (FGA) under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh was held in the Circle Officer’s Conference Hall at Oyan today. All the Panchayat leaders, Gaon Buras and other senior leaders of the area attended the meeting.

The leaders who spoke in the meeting representing their villages were all praise for the staff of the PHC, who have brought significant changes in the morbidity and mortality pattern of the whole area by improving the clinical services, regular outreach activities and training of mothers on basic health care. The shape of the PHC now is ten times better than that in 2005 before FGA took over the management, said Nalo Tasing, Anchal Chairperson. Okyam Gao, Zilla Parishad Member, agreed with him said that the leaders of the area should work together to get an X-ray unit for the PHC. She added that the NGOs should be working in more difficult areas and FGA should keep on improving their performance since Sille is well connected with road.

Nakek Moyong, Zilla Parishad Member (Bilat) explained about the purpose of the government’s PPP project and congratulated the people of the Sille-Oyan area for getting their PHC managed under the project. Byabang Rocket, Chairperson, Master Coordinating Committee (MCC), FGA gave an overall view of the works being done by FGA in other parts of the state. He recounted various misgivings about the organization in early days in places like Palin when it was misunderstood to have political agenda. He urged the leaders not to repeat the same mistake since FGA is working with the welfare of the people of Arunachal Pradesh as the only motive.

Aying Perme, Circle Officer, Sille-Oyan, who chaired the meeting congratulated FGA for good performance and urged the leaders to continue making contributions in managing the center.

Earlier, Dr. Tage Kanno, Executive Director, FGA explained about the purpose of the meeting and said that involving the communities in managing the PHC is one of the main objectives of the organization, and the meeting aims to elicit more participation in the project. He added that FGA hopes that the communities themselves should be able to manage the PHC whenever the PPP project comes to an end.

It may be mentioned that FGA has been managing the PHC, Sille since 2006 when it took over from the government. PPP project is one of the innovative project conceived by the government of Arunachal Pradesh as a part of National Rural Health Mission and has been nationally acclaimed for its success in improving rural health services.