Imphal: Directorate of Forest, Environment and Climate Change organised its 5th Anniversary of Media Resource Centre (MRC) at Hotel Imphal on Saturday.
Th. Biswajit Singh, minister of Forest, Environment and Climate Change said one needs to convince and make people understand the complications of climate change and how and what we should do in tackling issues related to it. There is always a solution for every problem, so one should adopt the habit of sustainable preservation and inheriting methods or means accordingly. It is undeniable that destruction is done already for every human civilisation but we should learn its reversing process also, he added.
Positive ideas and new approaches should be encouraged from every sphere of life to bring in some changes in the environment, the minister said.
The term ‘reserved forest’ is used because it has ample number of rich resources which we all should be aware of, he added.
To make awareness possible, media, being the voice helping in carrying forward the message of climate change and issues further leading to global forums, plays a major role. Establishing such platform further helps to bridge the gaps between the policy makers, researchers, general practitioners and general public. It has been giving capacity building to almost 50 journalists so far in the state of Manipur. The department, through Media Resource Centre, is presently sponsoring radio plays, programmes and other educational related awareness and initiatives through media, he said.
The main highlight of the function was the felicitation to around 50 climate change media partners, both from print and electronic media, by distributing mementos. This felicitation was the 4th edition since its inception. A short video on the activities of MRC was shown at the function.
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