Pile of garbage dumped along the roadside in Block-9 of
Thilixu village.
- DIMAPUR — A
growing pile of garbage, including two improperly disposed pig carcasses, along
the roadside in Block-9 of Thilixu village has raised concerns about public
health and civic responsibility.
- On Thursday, Eastern Mirror alerted Tokishe Achumi, the Gaon
Bura (GB) of Thilixu village, who subsequently visited the spot located near
the Nagaland Zoological Park.
- The GB announced plans to install a notice board warning
violators of hefty fines. The offenders, he said, would also be required to
clean the site themselves.
- Achumi said that Thilixu village is vast and thus,
identifying the culprits would be challenging. However, local youth would be
assigned to monitor the area round-the-clock, and the fines collected would be
used to compensate the youth, he said.
- Expressing concern over the lack of civic sense, he said
that the indiscriminate dumping of garbage not only reflects poorly on the
village but also creates an unpleasant experience, especially for visitors to
the Zoological Park and tourists travelling through the area.
- While Thilixu village lies outside the jurisdiction of the
Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), its situation is not very different from areas
under the municipality.
- Several locations in the DMC areas, such as the Midland road
stretch and parts of Army Supply Road, to name a few, have piles of garbage
strewn on the roadside.
- Achum Jami, the convenor of the DMC’s Sanitation Branch,
highlighted the difficulties they face in managing waste across 123 colonies,
25 of which are said to be unregistered.
- He said that the DMC has seven tractors, 14 BS4 mini trucks,
five dumper trucks, four JCB excavators, four Tata Aces, two Poclain
excavators, and 22 hand-pulled carts. However, it is insufficient to manage the
waste collected from the 123 colonies.
- In some localities under the DMC’s purview, such as Notun
Bosti, residents have reported delays in garbage collection. What used to be a
daily service now occurs every two to three days.
