The development project, North East Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCOMP) was launched in February 1998 in six districts selected from three states – Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya in North Eastern India. The project venture started with adoption of two approaches – (1) Social infrastructural development and (2) Socio –economic development, both with the participation of community based organisations (SHGs and NaRMGs).
Needy social infrastructural development activities have been executed under the project which give a breakthrough in development of remote tribal areas in NER.
Socio-Economic development through institutional capacity building and participation of CBOs has brought a drastic change in the life style of tribal people in the region.
By and large, the NERCOMP has given a great contribution to the socio-economic development of tribal community in the upland areas of North Eastern India.
Such project deserves replication in other demanding places.
KEY WORDS: NERCORMP, IFAD, SHGs and NaRMGs