Our Correspondent
Kohima | February 22
The state's department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has generated a total revenue of Rs.6,42,64,926 during the period April 2018 to January 2019.
This was stated by the Minister in charge of the department CM Chang in the ongoing Assembly session on Friday. Chang said the department did not utilize the revenue and had remitted the collected amount to the government treasury.
In regard to the department's activities to protect the environment from global warming, the minister highlighted that the Nagaland State Action Plan on Climate Change was approved by the Government of India in 2014. The action plan is multi-sectoral with eight identified sectors covering 28 departments and the first project under this in the Agriculture sector has been sanctioned and is under implementation. Chang mentioned that besides workshops and observation of World Environment Day, the department carries out plantation activities, involving students and village communities, which act as a mitigation as well as adaptive strategy against Climate Change. Also, he said the department has initiated the establishment of Community Conservation Areas across the state wherein villages are encouraged to preserve comoact forester areas. Such areas help in mitigating climate cnange through the conservation of carbon stock in the forests, he added.
