Speaking at a FICCI Roundtable for North-Eastern region’, held under the aegis of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, on the ‘Roadmap for Making Cancer Care Affordable and Accessible in India’,Mr Sampath Kumar, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of Meghalaya said the state government has launched the Cancer Mission, a screening-based program focused on early detection and prevention and already screened individuals over 30 years of age in Khasi District.
Faced with the challenge of non-availability of land for setting up of new landfills in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills region of the state, the Meghalaya government has decided to encourage villages to instead have their own landfill sites within their respective jurisdictions.
Lahkmen Rymbui, MLA of Amlarem and Chief Adviser to the Government of Meghalaya, on Thursday provided insights into the current state of education in the state, reflecting on his previous role as Education Minister.
The issue of relocating the hoolock gibbon from Garo Hills to the Meghalaya Biological Park, Umtrew, Ri-Bhoi district earlier this year might have been settled, but the park is far from ready to be open for the public, missing completion deadlines.
Meghalaya government has entered into an agreement with the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) which would liaison with the centre, international agencies for several developmental activities of the state.
Meghalaya government has decided to not allow any individual to cross the international India-Bangladesh border in view of the unstable situation in the neighbouring country
