Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma launches green campaign in Shillong

Guwahati: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken an initiative to scrap plastics by 2022 in India, the Meghalaya government has also started a green campaign against the use of plastics in the state.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Saturday launched the Shillong, My Passion a green campaign at a function held at Cleve Colony in Meghalayas capital city Shillong.

Several organisations, students, civil society groups, individuals took participate in the green campaign.

#ShillongMyPassion Let the movement be a collective responsibility for all of us to make Shillong clean and healthier. @CMO_Meghalaya @SwachhBharatGov @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/YoHvReVRXC

Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) September 7, 2019

The Meghalaya Chief Minister said that, the Shillong My Passion- the initiative- will provide a common platform for citizens to connect to the cause of a cleaner environment in the state.

Plastic is one of the biggest problem, facing the country and the world. It is very important that, single-use plastics must be banned immediately. We should completely stop to use of plastic whatever it possible. In my office, there is no plastic bottle, we avoid plastic files. So therefore in our day to day life, I urge and encourage all the citizens of state to not use plastics, Sangma said.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

(Image Credit: twitter.com/SangmaConrad)