Date: 31^st May, 2019 at 10:30 AM

Venue: Champhai Venglai Community Hall.

The meeting was started with a welcome address by Dr.Naveen Aggarwal, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Champhai District and Chairman, DLCC, FOCUS Champhai District. Welcoming all the members, the chairman mentioned that though jhum cultivation leads to wastage of land and environmental damage, it has been sticked with our society and culture. There is a need of modified agriculture for better agriculture. Government of India and Govt. of Mizoram had tried its best for the better agriculture and for this mission, FOCUS project will be an important instrument. The Chairman then explained some of the FOCUS objectives and invited all the members to play some role for the success of the project.

                                        After this, Pu R.K.Nithanga, the State Projector Director (SPD), FOCUS gave an overview of the FOCUS Project. The SPD explained clearly about how the project was started and how it is going to be implemented in Mizoram, mentioning that the Project will be implemented in four districts of Mizoram viz. Champhai, Mamit, Kolasib and Serchhip districts.

                                        This was followed by speech from the Guest of Honour, Pu L.Thangmawia, MLA, who said that Champhai District is privilege that the FOCUS project will be implemented and urge the village council members to give their best support for the implementation of the project. He further mentioned that the FOCUS Project should be a project which will stand monitoring in all aspects. There has been plenty of projects that had been implemented in Mizoram who do not withstand monitoring, let FOCUS be the project whose success can be examined  with different monitoring.

                                         Following this, there was a speech from Dr.Z.R.Thiamsanga, MLA, who said that being a Chief Guest in such auspicious meeting is a milestone for him. He mentioned that though he is from medical background, he is interested in the programme/project like that of FOCUS and will try his best to extend effort for the successful implementation of the project and further requested the village council members to extend their help for the successful implementation of the project.

                                                    The first session of the DLCC meeting ended with Vote of thanks from Pu George Lalthanngura, District Agriculture Officer & District Project Manager, FOCUS, DMU, Champhai.

                            The 2^nd session of the meeting was chaired by DAO/DPM. There was a presentation from the Technical Officer (Horti) and Technical Officer (Vety). Technical Officer (Horti) gave presentation on Agri, Horti and Soil sector and the Technical Officer (Vety) gave presentation on Vety sector. This was followed by discussion and interaction from the VCPs and PMU staff.

                                     The DLCC was attended by 158 village council members from the 108 villages of Champhai district.