JFMCs and MICRO PLAN

In Meghalaya, Village Employment Council (VEC) is the designated body for implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and has been established in every village across the State. The Meglife Project shall utilize the VECs for implementing the project. A Village Project Implementation Committee (VPIC) as a sub-committee of the VEC shall be constituted with a mandate to guide and supervise the project implementation in the respective villages and to manage the project bank account which will be opened exclusively for the project. VPIC may have different committees in order to accommodate various sub-activities to be implemented in the village. Committees such as JFMC and Watershed Management Committee may be required to be created under the VPIC for implementation and maintenance of village level activities.

Microplanning: Microplanning can be defined as participatory and integrated area development planning in which planning is done at the local level such as village, cluster of villages or at community development blocks. Another definition says a planning and implementing process which is people centred, relying on their decisions. Some refer to it as bottom-up planning because the planning starts from lower levels, unlike more traditional top-down planning processes The aim of micro-planning is planning from the lowest level i.e., from the functional community upwards to a clearly defined region to fulfil the needs of the local areas and ensuring the process of integration of the different areas with an objective to attain balanced regional
development.