Kohima Aug 25 PTI The Nagaland government has planned to explore various financial sources including CSR funds and will focus on skill development and employment generation through farming and allied sectors to eradicate poverty by 2030 an official said Wednesday According to a vision document the Neiphiu Rio government will concentrate on externally aided projects public-private partnership initiatives and negotiated loans from funding agencies to achieve the poverty elimination goal he said During the day Rio held a meeting with officials of various departments on the production and export of local commodities for the economic upliftment of the state the official said The state government has recently unveiled Nagaland SDG Vision 2030 Leaving no one behind which provides short medium and long term strategies to achieve 17 specific goals including eradication of poverty An estimated 1888 per cent of people are living below the poverty line in Nagaland The document proposed purposeful engagement of various stakeholders such as universities financial institutions farmer organisations and community-based entities to achieve the target It suggested that financial sources such as corporate social responsibility CSR funds externally aided projects public-private partnership initiatives negotiated loans from funding agencies should be explored in addition to regular missions and programmes launched by the government the official said Other strategies proposed for alleviation of poverty in the state include employment generation through the agricultural and allied sectors skill development strengthening of the existing industrial base and village development boards he said Notably Nagaland is an agrarian state with about 60 per cent of its population engaged in agriculture and allied activities and 7114 per cent of its residents live in villages The document also suggested the government to provide easy access to food health education housing and services such as road connectivity IT infrastructure and drinking water It also identified some of the challenges such as limited financing and banking facilities high level of unemployment and unavailability of basic amenities to achieve the target The report was prepared based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Altogether 17 specific goals were set for 2030 which include no poverty zero hunger good health and well-being quality education gender equality clean water and sanitation affordable energy economic growth and industry innovation and infrastructure PTI NBS BDC BDC

Kohima Aug 25 PTI Nagalands COVID-19 tally rose to 29718 on Wednesday as 49 more people tested positive for the infection while a fresh fatality pushed the death toll to 612 a health bulletin said Dimapur district registered the highest number of new cases at 24 followed by Mokukchung 11 and Kohima nine The death of a COVID-19 patient was reported from Peren district during the day it said Nagaland now has 871 active cases while 27373 people have recovered from the disease thus far including 62 during the day The recovery rate of coronavirus patients in Nagaland now stands at 9205 per cent Altogether 862 COVID-19 patients have migrated to other states the bulletin said The state has tested 308422 samples for COVID-19 and inoculated 840137 people thus far PTI NBS MM MM

Kohima Aug 24 PTI Nagalands COVID-19 tally on Tuesday rose to 29669 as 47 more people tested positive for the virus a health official said The COVID-19 death toll in the state climbed to 611 with one more person succumbing to the disease in Dimapur district he said Forty-seven positive cases detected today are Dimapur 18 Kohima 13 Mokokchung 11 Phek 3 and Mon and Peren 1 each he said Seventy-three COVID positive patients recovered during the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 27311 said State Nodal Officer for Integrated Disease Surveillance Project Dr Nyanthung Kikon in the daily COVID-19 bulletin The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state now is 9205 per cent Nagaland currently has 888 active COVID-19 cases he said adding that altogether 859 COVID-19 patients have migrated to other states So far a total of 305999 samples have been tested for COVID-19 Dr Kikon said A total of 834662 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to 649661 people in Nagaland as on Monday said State Immunization Officer Dr Ritu Thurr PTI NBS RG RG