The two-day Nagaland Youth Summit, attended by around 2,000 youths from all over the state, has come out with a set of recommendations for the state government.
On good governance, the summit, which concluded yesterday, sought to enable public participation at all levels, specially the youth, at pre-policy stage of consultation and implementation process.
On entrepreneurship, the summit recommended setting up of an entrepreneurship cell, which would provide entrepreneurship skills and work with banks to provide finances for 100 units under the Credit Guaranteed Small and Medium Enterprises upto an amount of Rs one crore and 1,000 units financing under Mudra-Tarun upto Rs 10 lakh annually.
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The third recommendation was on skills building, where it has suggested that 2016 be declared as the 'Year of Construction Workers.'
The summit was organised by the Nagaland chapter of Youth Net on the theme 'Celebrating Young Nagas: Preparing the next generation' at the NBCC convention hall.