Itanagar, July 6 -- Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Monday called for balancing development with environmental conservation, stressing that sustainable progress must be rooted in ecological protection and indigenous knowledge.
He was addressing the Van Mahotsav celebrations organised by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) in collaboration with the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (GBPNIHE) at the BSI campus in Itanagar.
The programme, themed "Initiative for a Green Earth through Plantation Drive-cum-Training Programme on Capacity Building in Taxonomy and Ethnobotany," featured a plantation drive in which Mein joined scientists, academicians, researchers, NCC cadets and students in planting sapling...