SHILLONG : Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad maintained that development should take place without harming the natural environment even as he pointed out that the North East was blessed with several species of ayuvedic plants.
He was speaking at the North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORMP) organised the Eastern Himalaya Trans-Regional workshop on “Learning and sharing from best practices of community-led sustainable livelihood development in North East India” at State Convention Center on Thursday.
Ram Muivah, Secretary, North Eastern Council (NEC), informed that International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), New Delhi had granted a soft loan of $ 30 million for NERCORMP IV to be extended for new North Eastern districts.