USDA plans training for ‘member recruitment’

 

Independent Mon News Agency

 

December 24, 2004

 

SPDC’s patronized Mon State Union Soliderity and

Development Association (USDA) is gathering a USDA

leader from each village in Mon State for a training

with objective of providing tactics how to recruit new

members for the organization.

 

“Township USDA leaders are gathering the USDA members

list from the villages for the registeration of the

training which will start on December 29,” Nai Jorn

reported.

 

The training will be held for a week and it will hold

all Township in Mon state at the same day, Jorn said.

 

“The training aims for USDA members to achieve it’s

goal in organizing people and participate in campaign

for recruitment,” Jorn explained.

 

In some USDA meetings, the reports described that USDA

must provide service for the people in terms of

development such health and sanitation projects in the

area concerned.

 

It is the first time that USDA plan intensive training

after Countrywide USDA Conference in September 2004,

after they review they did not achieve their goals

that to increase 100 USDA members in each town quarter

and 30 members in each village.

 

“It seems that USDA plan is for increasing its members

to be a strong organization and organized the people

to join the organization,” Jorn analysed.

 

For the accommodation of USDA member who registered

for the training  each village have to pay 5000 Kyat

to Township USDA authorities.

 

According to village headmen, the money for the

commodation of USDA trainees

will be collected from the villager, Jorn said

 

USDA was an organisation formed by the military

regime, and it has used them to collect information

and as anti-prodemocracy activities. The government

also tried to upgrade the USDA as polictical party and

hundreds of USDA member joined in National Convention.

In Mon State USDA tried to increase it members by

organising by providing business opportunity to the

local people. Although USDA have used ‘house by house’

organizing tactics in the towns in Mon State, but they

did not achieve their objectives.

 

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