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These photographs show volunteers cleaning urban areas of Kohima town. The '100 days Smart City special initiative campaign on sanitation,’ which included various community activities, has completed 47 days, organisers said on Monday in a handout.[/caption]
Dimapur, Aug. 12 (EMN):Kohima town's Smart City promoters have completed 47 days of what they called the '100 days Smart City special initiative campaign on sanitation,’ which included various community activities.
The Kohima Smart City establishment issued a press release to the media on Monday informing about the campaign and its progress.
On August 9, the Kohima Smart City establishment and the group Green Team of Kohima along with volunteers undertook another cleanliness drive below the Box Cutting Area, the updates stated.
“Volunteers including school children collected garbage, cleaned the roadside and retaining walls overgrowths and planted flowers in recycled tyres. The area seems to have been a garbage dumping area earlier as a full truckload of bottles and plastic garbage were collected from 50 metre stretch above the road,” the press release stated.
The team has appealed to the members of the public to stop throwing waste in the area. A number of waste bins were also placed along the pedestrian pavement near the SKV fuel station, they stated.
As part the 100 days campaign, advocacies and consultative meetings were conducted with schools and colleges, youth organisations, church groups, women groups, besides hotels and restaurants and colony and ward functionaries.
The press release stated that the interactions were on varied subjects like plastic pollution, waste management, role of citizens in the “smarter Kohima” movement etc.
The Green Team along with ward coordinators and volunteers are undertaking a sample survey of the existing practices on waste management which will translate into house to house dissemination information on waste segregation and home composting, the updates stated.
Further, there are forthcoming activities including publicity programmes with taxi and bus unions and a consultative meeting with the Kohima Chamber of Commerce on enforcement of plastic ban, the press release stated.
Putting up nets at strategic locations along the Dzuvuru River is being undertaken in collaboration with the Kohima Village Students Union and the wards, it was informed.
‘This will include installation of barricades along the bridge railings to discourage people from coming and dumping their garbage directly into the rivers,’ the press release added.