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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
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State joins the observation International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer – 16 September 2010'
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Dr. J. Suresh Babu on the International Day
for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, 16 Sept.2010

Since 1995, on the 16th of September of each year the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is celebrated. This year's theme is "Ozone layer protection: governance and compliance at their best".

In Manipur state, the Environment & Ecology Office observed the day by organizing a mass rally of more than 1000 students in & around Imphal City of which was followed by mass tree plantation at Kangla.

The rally was flagged off by Dr. J. Suresh Babu, Commissioner (Forests & Environment), Govt. of Manipur.

In one of the function organized by Manipur Pollution Control Board at Sir Johnston Higher Secondary School, Imphal, its Chairman, M.L.A., Shri E. Dwijamani called upon the people to act in the local level to save environment from further degradation asserting that even though the world shouts for protection of the environment, without acting in the local level, it will not be possible to achieve the ends.