Sendra, May 27 (EMN): Northeast India’s third cleanest city after Gangtok and Aizawl is Imphal as per nationwide cleanliness survey by Union Ministry of Urban Development recently, almost all important towns and habitation areas are encountering big challenges in managing their household wastes.
The situation is not so encouraging at the habitation in and around Loktak, the largest fresh water lake in India’s North Eastern region, and also at this picturesque village also located at Loktak.
Sendra, a small village at Loktak located about 45 km south of Imphal is popular tourist site cum picnic spot in Manipur.
Hundreds of tourists visit here on a daily basis to enjoy the beauty of Loktak which provides livelihood to thousands of people since time immemorial and in the process the site becomes a dumping site of waste not only by the visitors but also by the residents because of absence of proper waste management system in the locality.
Considering the public requirement, residents of Ithing Sendra came out and started a public campaign under the theme “Green Thanga,Save Loktak & Clean Sendra” here on Saturday.
Besides collecting the household waste and others waste littered on the roads and tourist resorts, the Sendra residents and Sendra Youth Club volunteers of this popular tourist resort installed 30 dustbins around their localities to establish a proper solid management system in their locality for the first time.
“We’re trying to introduce a proper system to dispose wastes at the disposal site to keep our lake surrounding clean,” says Kh Budha, a key organiser of the campaign. Locals said, the area where people use to dispose off their waste is located near a popular Omba garden which is located at Loktak area.
On hearing this, Planning and Development Authority Chairman and local MLA Tongbram Robindro who represents Thanga constituency agreed to establish a proper waste management system in the area sooner or later by finding a new site as well.
Though there is no proper record, Oinam Maipakchao, president of Loktak Eco-tourism Development organisation said that Thanga, Ithing and Sendra villages all located at Loktak which have more than 3000 households, might have generated not less than 3 tonnes of waste daily which shows that all the important habitations of the state are encountering big challenges in managing their solid wastes.
