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Port Blair, Feb. 19: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) today held a day long workshop to explore on the livelihood opportunities in the tsunami hit Nicobars. The workshop was organized at Hotel TSG Emerald View from 10.00 am onwards in which tribal leaders, representatives of tribal villages, government officials of A&N Administration, members of SIF and TISS Mumbai participated.
Tata Institute has been working in the Nicobar district since the tsunami of 2004. To begin with TISS had trained as many as 120 tribal youths in its university at Mumbai and provided them with certificates. The project was supported by the A&N Administration and Action Aid. This was followed by establishment of Rural Knowledge Centres across the Nicobars by signing a MoU with the Agriculture Directorate here.
With the RKCs successfully fulfilling the knowledge requirement of the tribals, TISS now is now into exploring livelihood opportunities for the tribals, who had lost their only source of livelihood i.e. coconut production after tsunami. There was an interactive session held with the tribal representatives in which the institute tried to identify the areas which can be explored to earn livelihood.
The session was later followed by presentation by various departments of A&N Administration viz. Fisheries, Agriculture, Industrial Training Institute, Registrar of Coop. Societies, Polytechnic, NABARD, Tribal Welfare, ANIFPDCL and KVIB. The presentation later led to an interaction session between the Administration and the tribals where various queries and doubts of the tribals were cleared. It was also decided in the workshop that TISS will work in close coordination with the tribals to identify the areas of livelihood and submit a report to the A&N Administration for successfully implementing the schemes of the GoI.
Among the delegates who participated in the workshop were Dr. Parashuraman, Director TISS, Mumbai, Prof. Surinder Jaswal, Project Incharge, TISS, Mumbai, Shri Mahesh Kamle & Tanmoy Chatterjee from TISS, Mumbai and representatives from SIF, Vienna. |
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