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Mizoram has become the third state in the Northeast to get a Cherry Blossom Avenue, with chief minister Lal Thanhawla planting a sappling of the flowering tree at the New Secretariat Complex in Aizawl last week, says a report in the Meghalaya Times.
“The cherry blossom is a symbol of peace, prosperity and tranquility and has brought peace in countries where it has been planted,” Dinabandhu Sahoo, director of the Imphal-based Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, said.
The IBSD, a national institute under the central government’s department of biotechnology, launched Cherry Blossom Avenues in Manipur and Meghalaya last May.
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