MDA without CMP for 7 months

SHILLONG: The NPP-led MDA coalition is working without a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) for the last seven months.
Bindo Lanong, the chairman of the committee dealing with the CMP, said the draft CMP has already been circulated to the coalition partners.
“All the partners in the MDA will submit suggestions and proposals based on the draft after holding discussion within their respective parties,” Lanong said.
He said the by-elections and other programmes had delayed finalisation of the CMP.
“We hope the final programme should be ready within November after examining various points in the draft,” Lanong said.
The draft common minimum programme has emphasis on the education sector and it focuses on, among other things, quality teachers and improving teaching of Science and Mathematics. The draft also wants revamping of MBoSE.
Drastic improvement in the health sector and appointment of specialists in hospitals, employability in agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry and fishery sectors, setting up of music and sports academies, construction of durable roads, skywalks and flyovers and cottage and small scale industries are the features of the common minimum programme.