Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) Kohima division conducted “Swachhata Shramdaan” on Wednesday at Tseminyu sub-division by cleaning public places, collecting single use plastic waste (SUP) at National High 02 and in and around the town area.
In a press release, the department informed that the programme was part of the 100-day campaign on “sustainability of ODF gains and achieving million soak pits” in consonance with 75th Independence Day “azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” which commenced on August 25 and would culminate on December 2, 2021.
The department informed that the collected single use plastic waste was stored at plastic waste management centre Tseminyu located at Tseminyu sub-division PHED store compound.
During the campaign, executive engineer PHED, Kohima rural, Vikienyu Zutso stressed on the importance of maintaining soak pit for managing grey water at household level.
He urged the responsible citizens to make use of all the locally available materials to make individual soak pit and encouraged the citizens to minimized single use plastic in daily dwellings.
Vikienyu further emphasised on segregation of plastic and bio-degradable waste and motivated the people to make use of plastic waste management centre facility which was set up by the department of PHED Kohima Rural Division at Tseminyu.
The Tseminyu Town youth, WATSAN and swacchagrahis participated in the “swachhata shramdaan”.
Dimapur: Dimapur district took forward the 100 days campaign under the Swachhata Shramdaan through cleaning public places and collection and segregation of SUP on September 15 at Dhansiripar community hall.
In a press release, PHED rural division, Dimapur IEC consultant, Vibou Seyie informed that the programme was attended by GB, village council chairman, WATSAN, Swachhagrahis of three neighbouring villages Dhansiripar HQ, Dhansiripar village and Amaluma.
The participants were also apprised of the components of ODF plus and the points of focus for community leaders and how to work to achieve it.
They were also asked to pass resolutions for ODF sustainability and achieve the targeted requirement of soak pits at household level, for grey water management during the 100-day campaign.
The interaction also focused on eliminating SUP as per the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules 2021, disallow littering of single use plastic and villages to stop open plastic burning.
The programme organised by PHED, Dimapur Rural division, Dimapur was led by District Water and Sanitation Mission (DWSM) district coordinator, Imojungla Longkumer and DWSM Dimapur, IEC consultant Vibou Seyie.