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Takyelpat, June 28 (EMN): Manipur’s noted environmentalist Dr Hanjabam Nandiram Sharma on Wednesday said plantation is not a must because the regenerating potentials of the forest (in Manipur) are still intact. It needs only protection by the people with conservational attitude. Change of living habit is root of change of positive attitude. Dr Nandiram was delivering a lecture on ‘Backbone of environment: Water and forest of Manipur during 8th Dr Thingnam Kishan memorial lecture programme at Science Centre, Imphal town on Wednesday.
“Change of living habit should be of green approaches with the conservation of nature and its components in intrinsic relationship,” says Dr Nandiram. “The first practicable approach in this line is the raising of forest of ‘Biosphere Reserve’ on hills in the name of deities worshipped by different sects.”
He also appealed “to live on the profit of clean nature, not on the very capital of it.
The Earth, our only Home, is only one in the Space. Informing the gathering that no water management is seen after the development of Ningthem Pukhri,a large pond during the reign of Maharaja Gabniwaj using Burmese (Myanmar)war captives in 1726,the former life science lecture in the premier DM College of science in Imphal also recommended reconstruction of water bodies in the state in order to reclaim the lost wetlands.
“With the modern technology, a number of such water bodies, if not of the size of Ningthem Pukhri, may be created wherever feasible with potential watershed,” he felt. “Such a constructive work is easier in the hills where a gorge can be converted into a water body by constructing an earthen barrage across the gorge.”
DM College of Science, Former Principal Gurumayum Tomba Sharma and Environmental Science department of Oriental College RK Imosana Singhl also spoke on the occasion.
