SHILLONG: The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department (AHVD) will conduct post-operative surveillance on fowls in areas from three to ten kilometers of Meghalaya's side of Khanapara on December 29 to collect samples to see if bird flu has spread to local poultry from Assam.

SHILLONG: Meningococcal meningitis has claimed 193 lives in the State this year and there are public concerns that the killer disease is yet to be wiped out from Meghalaya.

Director of Health Services Dr KH Lakiang on Wednesday said only ten meningococcal meningitis deaths had been "medically confirmed" by doctors in government hospitals.

SHILLONG: Meghalaya continues to have a poor record when it comes to implementation of Central schemes.

Besides several other projects including Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), one of the most progressive social welfare schemes called National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has yet to take off in the State as desired by the Government of India.

SHILLONG: Bio-diversity is a subject best left to environmentalists, or so it is believed. This springs from a lack of awareness about the larger consequences that destruction of biodiversity can lead to.

SHILLONG: The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary (AH&V) Department has begun spraying of disinfectants, including sodium hypochloride, in the villages of Ri-Bhoi district bordering Assam, where at least 1100 birds have been culled as a precautionary measure against bird flu.

SHILLONG, Dec 15: The Meghalaya Government is yet to constitute the State Biodiversity Board (SBB) under the National Biodiversity Act (NBA), 2002, to protect its vast pool of exotic flora and fauna, although it falls under the country

Culling of birds continued in Meghalaya for the second day today as reports on the tests of blood samples of birds from Assam-Meghalaya border villages in Ri Bhoi district were yet to reach the State capital.

Meghalaya has imposed ban on chicken and other poultry products import following outbreak of avian flu in neighbouring Assam.

SHILLONG: The long cherished dream of people of Mawdem, a remote area of Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya, bordering Assam to have their own drinking water supply has finally become a reality after Public Health Engineer (PHE) Minister AL Hek inaugurated the Rs 60.35 lakh Mawdem Water Supple Scheme under the Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) from the Non-Plan Expenditure on Wednesday.

SHILLONG: With bird flu spreading to at least nine districts of Assam and parts of Bangladesh bordering Meghalaya, the State Government has banned import of poultry and poultry products from that state and the neighbouring country.