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Action plan on climate change in Manipur
Assam Tribune | Imphal, Oct 12
The draft report on the Manipur State Action Plan on Climate Change,covering sectors like ecosystem, bio-diversity and livelihood sustainability, water resources, agriculture, health, forest, energy, urban planning, resource and development,human resource development, etc., is likely to be published soon.
To finalise the State Action Plan to be implemented with Environment and Ecology Wing of the Government of Manipur as nodal agency, a State-level consultative workshop was held at Hotel Classic here recently. Senior Scientific Officer of Environment and Ecology Wing, Dr M Homeshore, who made a presentation on the topic ‘A profile on climate change in Manipur and preparation: Its action and plan’, said that today Manipur is no exception to the impact of climate change and the annual rainfall rate has come down from 2217.90 millilitre in 1968 to 916.90 millilitre in 2007 while rise in temperature has been recorded from 25° C in 1969 to 29.72° C in 2008.
The impact of climate change has also affected the rich bio-diversity of the region and the degrading environment has led to low productivity, thereby giving a serious setback on the economic growth of the State, Dr Homeshore said.
During the workshop, Dr Tommar and Dr Singh also spoke on the topics of ‘Progress of preparation of State Action Plan on Climate Change’ and ‘Sectoral issues and adaptation strategies in agriculture, water and forest in Manipur’, respectively.
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