HT Correspondent
NAGAON, Jan 24: Chief General Manager (CGM), NABARD, Loken Das laid the foundation stone for the first-of-its-kind NABARD project in the State of Assam on “Setting up of processing facility for transformation of fish waste to liquid fertiliser, fish oil and organic manure” at the College of Fisheries (CoF), Raha, on Thursday.
The event was attended by Director of Research Dr Probodh Borah, Dean of the College of Fisheries Dr Pradip Ch Bhuyan, District Development Manager (DDM), NABARD Rajendar Perna, along with Professors and Associate Professors of the institution.
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Addressing the gathering, CGM-NABARD stated that Nagaon, being the largest district in Assam in terms of fish production and fish seed production, the waste-to-wealth project would play a significant role in converting huge quantities of fish waste into usable products such as fish oil, liquid fertiliser and organic manure. On the occasion, the CGM and the DDM-NABARD also handed over another sanction letter to the College of Fisheries for the “Creation of model village for fish seed raising of indigenous fishes”.
The Director of Research, Fisheries, Government of Assam and the Dean of the College of Fisheries also addressed the participants and expressed their sincere gratitude to NABARD for funding both the projects. They stated that such developmental initiatives with NABARD’s support would have far-reaching positive impacts among youth, fish farmers and consumers.
During the day, the CGM-NABARD visited and interacted with heads and senior officials of various line departments. The locations visited included the NIDA project at Jongal Balahu Archaeological site, DDM Office, Office of the Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies, The Assam Cooperative Apex Bank Ltd., RCC bridge constructed under RIDF XXIV at Uttar Simaluguri, Farm Machinery Training Block at Krishi Vigyan Kendra and the AAU Zonal Research Station. During these visits, he also inaugurated a low-cost shade-net nursery house at the KVK.
At the Office of the Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies, the CGM-NABARD interacted with the DRCS, ARCSs, SRCSs, Supervising Officers, Auditors and Secretaries of selected GPSS. He appreciated that against the target of 42 GPSS under the PACS Computerisation Project, a total of 34 GPSS, the highest in Assam, have achieved the status of ‘ePACS Only’, while four other GPSS have reached the ‘ePACS Only Ready’ status. He advised the officials to ensure daily ‘DayEnd’ compliance.
At the AAU Zonal Research Station, the CGM-NABARD interacted with the Chief Scientist, Principal Scientist and students of the recently introduced Diploma in Agriculture (Batch-I). He later handed over a sanction letter for the “Establishment of Bio-Control Lab for the production of bio-control agents for management of insect pests”.
