CM announces plans for making Imphal a clean city
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, June 05 2010: Chief Minister O Ibobi today informed the encroachers in the reserved forests, protected forests and unclassified forests to leave their holdings before the government takes up actions to evict them.

Like in other parts of the globe, the World Environment Day was observed in the state too with a function organised by the State Environment and Ecology Wing at Kangla Hall under the theme "Many Species, One Planet, One Future" of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) .

CM Ibobi planting a tree on World Environment Day

The Chief Minister who attended the observation function urged the encroachers in the reserved forests, protected forests and unclassified forests like that at Langol areas to shift to other places before government evicts them.

No law is there to stop when government takes up eviction drives against encroachers in the said forest areas.

Government also required obtains of no objection certificate and environmental clearance from the authority of Environment and Forest, Regional Centre while taking up a project which will cover 30 to 40 acres of forest areas and for area above 40 acres, it need clearance from the Union ministry of forest and environment.

Talking on the government plan to make Imphal, a city with clean environment, Ibobi said that the Assembly Secretariat will be shifted within this year and the Indira Park will be expanded.

Government is also considering shifting of Speaker Bungalow, Imphal Municipality Council office, Manipur Hindi Parishad, Tombisana High School complex and covert the area available out of it into a garden.

Regarding development of lake and preserving cultivable lands, Ibobi said that even though Lamphelpat, Porompat, Kakwa, etc.

had been vanished with due course of time in taking various developmental projects, there is the need for taking up works for preservation of lakes like Loktak lake, Phumlen pat, Khoidum pat, etc.

Declaration of the surrounding areas of these lakes as "Institutional Area" is considering by the government, he said.

State forest and environment minister, Th Debendro who presided over the function said that for checking global degradation of the environment it is a must to act locally with concerted efforts of the people.

When the fishery department efforted for preservation of indigenous fishes which was on the verge of extinction, forest department works with keen interest for the conservation of locally trees, birds, animals and plants, the environment can be save from further degradation.

On the occasion, Chief Minister, O Ibobi inaugurated a temperature record centre.