Martin Luther Christian University

Department of Environment & Traditional Ecosystems

The Mission Statement
“To promote and document environmentally conducive indigenous methods and traditional practices of the region by providing knowledge and skills to the students and inculcate in them genuine empathy for the environment; to become equipped and competent in understanding, conserving and practicing these methods for livelihoods which will contribute to the sustainable development of the Society.”

The Department was started in 2012 with a postgraduate program in Environment and Social Development and in 2016 the department started the BSc/BA in Environmental Management. The department has 6 fulltime and one part-time faculty members.

The projects and activities are as follows:

1. Training and mock drill on disaster management (first aid, fire-fighting and evacuation) for staff and students of MLCU

2. Awareness Program on Sanitation and Waste Management organised in collaboration with PHE, Government of Meghalaya in East Khasi Hills (Rangbihbih, Mawkliaw Pynursla), and in Umrynjah, Ri Bhoi district, Meghalaya.

3. Project titled, “Prioritisation, identification and mapping of medicinal plants used in the traditional medicine systems of the Khasi and Garo tribes of Meghalaya”, funded by the Department of Biotechnology,  Government of India.

4. Project on “Waste Management at Iewduh” under the Clean Shillong Campaign in collaboration with Hima Mylliem and Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board

5. Collaboration with Khasi Traditional Medicine Commission, Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council to provide education in, conduct research on, provide healthcare in, and promote Khasi traditional medicine under the Promotion and protection of Khasi Traditional Medicine Act, 2011.

6. Khasi History in Stone: The Robin Laloo Memorial Seminar on Heritage and Legacy on April 10, 2018 in collaboration with ICARE, Shillong