KOHIMA — With the onset of rainy season, Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has distributed raincoats to its safai karamcharis and other sanitation workers at the office premises on Friday in Kohima.
Administrator of KMC, T Lanusenla Longkumer, informed Eastern Mirror that they have handed over waterproof materials to the sanitary workers to ease them while engaging in their job on the streets during showers.
It was informed that there are nearly one hundred sanitation workers engaged with KMC including those who are attached to waste collection vehicles.
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=1]The municipal council would also set-up signboards to remind citizens not to litter or dump garbage elsewhere with a message "Do not dump your garbage here" (in both English and Tenyidie). Longkumer informed that they would be putting up the signboards at vulnerable locations along the roads where people continuously dump garbage illegally in the state capital.
Taking note of people repeatedly setting up fire at the dumping sites, which in turn litters elsewhere in and around the municipal jurisdiction, Longkumer informed that similar placards would also be placed at such rubbish dumps including a stretch along the road leading to Kohima Science College.
“Some are just dumping illegally everywhere and we have to clean them up all the time,” the official said adding that people tend to dump on the roadsides even halfway to the dumping sites causing inconveniences to others.
It was learned that such rubbish are also dumped randomly by people even nearby fields below the roads.
Asked if citizens have become aware about civic sense over the years, Longkumer skeptically responded by saying, "a little bit.”
However, she affirmed that it was challenging to curb littering as Kohima being a place with floating population.
"It takes ten people to litter everywhere," she said.
Nevertheless, she called for a collective responsibility to keep the city clean "as the capital belongs to all."