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India will transfer forward taking the fusion of progress, atmosphere and tradition ahead, Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi mentioned on Monday.

Talking on the sidelines of an occasion organised right here by the Balipara Basis of Assam and Conservation Worldwide, the minister of state for exterior affairs mentioned there could be no tradition with out nature.

“Defending nature is our tradition and that’s what one wants to know. India will transfer forward taking the fusion of progress, atmosphere and tradition ahead,” she mentioned.

Lekhi mentioned accountable consumption must be linked to consumption patterns.

“Merely speaking about it is not going to assist. It’s also about accountable residing, accountable consumption patterns, and that’s the place we are going to hyperlink it to life and maintain the atmosphere and we can fortify our actions,” she mentioned.

The Nice Folks’s Forest of the Jap Himalayas, probably the most important conservation efforts within the historical past of South Asia, was launched on the occasion.

The Nice Folks’s Forest is a partnership between the Balipara Basis of Assam and Conservation Worldwide, and can contain communities throughout Bangladesh, the northeast of India, Nepal and Bhutan working to guard and restore forests for the advantage of native livelihoods and the planet.

Saurav Malhotra, CEO, Balipara Basis, mentioned, “We now have labored for the final 10 years within the Balipara Basis with individuals who have misplaced their land, their livelihoods as a result of results of local weather change and deforestation. Folks within the area know what must be performed they usually have determined to behave. The Nice Folks’s Forest is their story.