PWDs to get free stipendiary training
Staff Reporter
Shillong, Sept 18: The National Career Service Centre for Differently Abled, Shillong will start a free stipendiary training in Computer Application and Electrical and home Appliance Repair to Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjans) candidates belonging to Orthopedically Handicapped, Visual Impairment, Hearing impairment, Mild Intellectual disability, Multiple Disabilities and Nile Leprosy Cured.
The duration of the training programme is six months to a maximum of one year. During the period of the training programme, the concerned beneficiary will get a stipend amount of Rs. 2,500/- per month through the DBT process.
Interested candidates are requested to submit their bio-data along with desired documents like educational qualification, disability certificate, Aadhar card, caste certificate, passport size photo & bank account details to the office situated at Keating Road on or before 30th September 2023.
National Career Service Centre for Differently Abled (erstwhile VRC) is a subordinate office under Directorate General of Employment (DGE), Ministry of Labour & Employment Govt. of India and has been working for the welfare of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) through counselling, evaluation, imparting non-formal vocational training, rehabilitation and other outreach activities in order to bring them into the mainstreams model of development since October 2022 in the state of Meghalaya.
‘Confrontation’ will not resolve border issue: CM
Staff Reporter
Shillong, Sept 14: Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma today said issues related to the long pending boundary dispute with Assam can only be resolved through discussion and dialogue but not through confrontation.
His statement came after the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) Laban Circle had threatened to close down the Karbi Hemtun (Guest House) if the Karbi people and Assam government continue to illegally encroach and harass Khasi people in West Jaintia Hills District.
The Karbi Hemtun was inaugurated jointly by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Meghalaya Chief Minister on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters at the sidelines of a function, Sangma said that confrontation is not the solution.
“We are in India and obviously we have to work and discuss matters and live in peace and harmony. There are challenges, there are complications which we have to work out but it cannot be worked out by confrontation. Solutions can only come with discussion and dialogue, with understanding and trust and hence we need to ensure that we build that trust with our counterparts, be firmed with our negotiations and our terms, find ways in which we can accommodate each other and obviously in important occasions like these, these are trust-building measures,” he said.
He added, “So tomorrow you want to put up a Meghalaya House in Assam or Guwahati and if somebody says well you cannot do it, I don’t think that is a trust-building mechanism.”
“Yes, I am not saying that there are no concerns, there are concerns but to resolve those concerns, confrontation is not the solution. We need to work together to build trust and in an amicable manner move forward and that is what the message was yesterday (during the inauguration of the Karbi House),” the CM said.
Meanwhile, Sangma informed that the chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya will finalise a firm program related to the second phase of border talks, in the next couple of days.