SHILLONG, Feb 8: The United Hajong Community Development Organisation (UHCDO), in their first annual meeting recently, mooted several social welfare and development plans for the betterment of the people in South West Garo Hills.
The meeting highlighted several complications faced by the Hajong community as well as other sections of the society.
The organisation has decided to facilitate assistance to the financially weaker sections and marginalised farmers in the region.
Owing to a purported low literacy rate of the community, the organisation will also try to persuade the concerned authorities to construct a school for quality education, especially making most out of the National Education Policy 2020.
Furthermore, the organisation vowed to assist the wage-weavers in the area, who have become unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the general meeting in Tura, Bakul CH Hajong, president of UHCDO, also highlighted the ongoing progress as well as achievements of the organisation, which include acquirement of agricultural land and raising horticulture crops at Gufraigaon, South West Garo Hills; an ambulance service for the people of Garo Hills; and training the traditional handloom weavers on ethnic designs.