JUST as the doctor ordered, Meghalaya’s large tracts of landscape made barren by topsoil run-off due to heavy rainfall, is poised for a holistic transformation.
The brainchild of an Israeli and funded by Japan, this ambitious `660-crore project currently underway in Mawlyngot village, some 47 km from here, is a potential game-changer for adding forest cover and livelihood improvement through community ownership of the assets created by this out-of-the-box initiative.
Seventeen years ago Aviram Rozin, an Israeli citizen, his wife and two daughters came to India and visited Rishikesh in Uttarakhand where. . .
