NE groups call to protect environment

TURA: Several organisations from the North East coming together as one single body have urged the Meghalaya government to take special measures to safeguard the environment in the state in order to prevent the effect of global warming.
In their memorandum submitted to Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and Minister of Forests and Environment, Lakhmen Rymbhui, the All Tai Ahom Students’ Union (ATASU) along with 20 other student bodies of eight NE states urged the state government to spread the message of environmental protection. Awareness on the importance of tree plantation and afforestation to curb the menace of global warming should be created.
They also suggested issuance of notifications or enactment of laws making it mandatory for theatre halls to show a few minutes of environment protection clips to create awareness among the masses. It also urged that direction be issued to all building permission regulatory bodies to insert a clause in building permission that the builders plant trees at the site depending on the size of the plot.
They further sought that similar instruction be issued to industrial licensing authorities, PWD, RWD and NHAI to make provisions for plantation of trees whenever they initiate road construction works.