The fertilizer cooperative IFFCO organized a farmers’ meet in the village of Tajnagar in Haryana. The meeting focused on the themes of tree-plantation and bee-keeping. The programme was conducted under the aegis of Smart Gram.
While the meeting was led by IFFCO Marketing Director Yogendra Kumar, Ministry official Mr Jalaj Srivastava also attended the event as the chief guest. Hundreds of farmers took part in the meeting.
It bears recall that IFFCO has taken up 20 villages under the President’s Smart Village Scheme. The cooperative titan aims to develop the village on modern lines and this programme was organized with this aim, tweeted IFFCO MD Dr U S Awasthi.
“Smart Gram” is an initiative launched by the former President Pranab Mukherjee with an aim to develop 100 such villages in the country. A ‘smart gram’ means a self-sufficient village. The physical and social infrastructure of the smart gram goes for complete overhaul leading to improvement in governance, services and economic opportunities.
The village model is based on the combined efforts and resources of the central and state governments, district administration, Panchayati Raj institutions, public and private sectors and the villagers.