TURA: A daylong workshop on contractors’ capacity building and business diversification was organised by MIDFC in collaboration with the district administration and IBDLP, West Garo Hills here on Monday.
The programme aimed at upgrading the knowledge and skill of contractors and builders by incorporating diverse aspects of construction work and encouraging them to venture further.
Addressing a gathering of contractors, construction workers and entrepreneurs from Garo Hills, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said that even as many infrastructural development schemes and programmes were being initiated in the state, the efficiency of all implementing departments depended on the efficiency and competence of all the partners – the contractors and the construction workers – and this has drawn the attention of the government to ensure that all partners engaged in infrastructural works are competent and efficient.
Reiterating the fact that building or promoting entrepreneurship in the state was the most difficult challenge for the government, Sangma said the government has embarked upon a mission to promote entrepreneurship by building partnership and appropriate format of business.Observing that most contractors in the state were first-generation contractors, he stressed on the need to create that kind of support to ensure that they do not give up.
He suggested that all welfare schemes for construction workers should be created in a simple bullet format and be made available to all departments and all blocks. He informed that MIDFC was constituted to facilitate aspiring contractors and builders and informed that a corpus fund would be created for rendering collateral support to the new contractors.
