Shillong, Oct 7: Health and Family Welfare Minister Wailadmiki Shylla reaffirmed the state government’s commitment to environmental conservation through systematic and scientific waste management in line with its policy goals.
Addressing the closing ceremony of Swachhata Hi Seva 2025, Shylla said, “Our state is among the first in the country to have a solid waste management policy and strategy, which was notified in 2019, and the vision of the policy is to strive toward zero waste. All the towns and cities of the state also have their own city solid waste action plans and city sanitation action plans, which were appraised of and approved by the Swachh Bharat Mission. As a state government, we are also deeply concerned about the overall maintenance of cleanliness and the management of wast