Shillong, July 6: The Meghalaya Government will setup a climate museum cum centre at Upper Shillong next to Elephant Falls, it will be constructed at the forest department land that is available.
This was informed by Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma during the G20 conclave held in Shillong on Thursday.
The government plan to make this into a location where students can come and get hands-on experience and look at the different aspects of climate change in the region state and country as a whole.
“It’s a place where we can educate children and have discussions. Conference room and rooms for stay will be made. We are proposing that annually there should be a conference at the regional level of the Northeast where we discuss every year about important aspects of climate and how the different states and region can work together,” said Sangma.
The work of this project will begin this year. Meghalaya chief minister also pointed out about his strong proponent of the idea that the Northeast needs to look at things together, and that we can’t segregate ourselves from it.
The need to look at climate change is important and that, there is no boundary of states for climate change. “We are in very sensitive environment hence all the states of the Northeast are affected in one way or the other. So therefore, we need to come up with certain policies and steps together and decide and therefore our idea was that we should have at least regional northeast conference along with other states or countries like Bangladesh, Burma, Myanmar and Bhutan. These countries, who are within that zone and that certain kilometers that will affect this entire area. So environmental issues need to be discussed together,” emphasised Sangma.
