In a communiqué, the District Planning Officer has stated that application are invited from NGOs and VAs of West Garo Hills for consideration of providing financial assistance from the Voluntary Action Fund (VAF) of the Planning Department, Meghalaya, for the year 2009-10 in accordance with the approved guidelines. The communiqué states that financial assistance under the scheme for the year 2009-10 would include some activities such as short term training, short term seminars, workshop etc. Financial assistance to be sanctioned to the individual NGOs or VAs will further depend on the merit and nature of the scheme it stated.
The proposal of NGOs or VAs will be scrutinized and sanctioned by the District Level Empowered Committee and the guidelines and formats for submission or proposals can be obtained from the District Planning Officer (Deputy Commissioner’s Office Building), West Garo Hills, Tura, during office hours and submitted on or before July 15, 2010. The District Planning Officer has strictly stated that no proposals would be entertained after the fixed date mentioned above.