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.

This component includes planning and implementation of the core forestry operations.The major sub-components will be grass-root planning of forestry operations; implementation of forest working plans for individual forests units; planning and development of village level community nurseries and FED/ FD-ADC managed district level nurseries; soil and water conservation measures; fire management in fire-vulnerable forest areas; development of critical infrastructure for forest management.