The Ministry of Water Resources has confirmed that it has submitted a proposal for North Eastern Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Management Project, Assam to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for financial support.

Referring to yesterday's Daily News report headlined 'Is it the end of World's End? a spokeswoman for the Environment Ministry said, development projects were carried out at Horton Plains covering the World's End area in an environment friendly manner to stop soil erosion during rainy days.

Shillong: Meghalaya loses approximately 10 million metric tones of top soil annually through practice of shifting cultivation, deforestation and other methods of soil degradation activities, said the Director of Soil and Water Conservation, KC Momin at the annual general meeting of Meghalaya Soil and Water Conservation held at the Conservation Training Institute at Byrnihat in Ri-Bhoi district on

KAMALABARI, Sept 28

In a significant policy shift, Assam Government has prioritised erosion over floods, identifying it as a more dangerous threat, even as Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi called for special packages for erosion-affected areas and border area development. Erosion is a more serious threat than floods.

DIBRUGARH, Sept 8: Thousands of people participated in the demonstration organized by the Rohmoria Erosion Resistance Struggle Forum (RERSF) at Dibrugarh today, to protest the failure of the Centre and the State Government to keep their promises made at various times.
The River Brahmaputra has been eroding huge chunks of Rohmoria since the 1950s.
More than two hundred villages and fifty big tea gardens of the area stretching from Bogibeel to Dhola Hatighuli have gone underwater.
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, visited the area in 2006 and had announced a package of Rs 350 crore.