Kohima: The Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission is revamping its Community Managed Training Centres. It wants these spots to function as permanent, women-led multipurpose business hubs. The project covers 20 centres total. Seventeen currently run while three more launch before year-end. Self-Help Group Cluster Level Federations will manage the sites.
A three-day workshop on the plan wrapped up August 28 at AIDA, Dimapur. M Rollan Lotha, the mission's Chief Operating Officer, urged federation leaders to ditch the old training-only model. He pushed them to hunt for local market demand and new revenue streams. These centres should evolve into productive rural service assets.
“The vision is to move from CMTCs as training facilities to CMTCs becoming a productive institutional asset of the CLF—one that generates income, creates opportunities and contributes to the sustainability of the federation by 2030,” Lotha said.
Ownership stays with the federations. CLF Managers will scout partners and push facility use to ensure each site turns a profit. The shift aligns with the national goal of building sustainable, women-led institutions by 2047. Staff and managers from the mission attended the final training session. Imonenla Imkong Phom led the workshop with assistance from Amau Francis Pame and Chenton Konyak.
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