The New Shillong Township project was conceived to accommodate the future population of Shillong as projected in the Shillong Master Plan and the State had earmarked 500 hectares of land to be acquired in Phase-I – for uses like administrative, commercial, community facilities, institutional, general housing and basic infrastructure, Ampareen said.
NERCORMP is involved in capacity building of communities and participating agencies, in generating livelihood activities by focusing on organic agriculture, sustainable shifting cultivation, livestock and fisheries, forestry, NTFP, medicinal and aromatic plants.
“We have constituted this council in accordance with the National Action Plan on Climate Change which was launched by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh,” Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma said after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
SHILLONG: The introduction of a fleet of forty new buses in Greater Shillong has ensured that the commuters need not wait for transportation. The Barik Point, the heart of the city, is now found to be deserted.
Informing this here on Monday, Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma said, ”under the proposed universal health insurance, the coverage would be Rs one lakh per year and Rs two lakh per year in case of critical situation,”
SHILLONG: The much-awaited State Mining Policy that would regulate the mining activities in the State is set for further delay due to objections raised by the coal and limestone miners to the final
Meghalaya Chief Secretary WMS Parait today said bamboo resources should be used as a means of livelihood and improvement of rural economy. Parait said that rural population, bamboo resources and industrial units were correlated for economic development.
SHILLONG: “Meghalaya is one of the States in India which falls under vulnerable Zone-V of high seismicity and bamboo can play a vital role in appropriate housing and construction to its suitability and availability”, according to Kankana Narayan Dev of Bambu-N-Man, a bamboo design consultancy of Guwahati, Assam.
NEW DELHI: After Shillong ranked 18th in terms of good urban sanitation and cleanliness among Indian cities, the "Scotland of the East" is found to be the only State capital in the entire north-eastern region having a slum population of over 50,000.
