Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 29
Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) on Friday cleaned a major drainage in Dimapur town near Nagarjan Police Point junction supervised by DMC Administrator, H. Atokhe Aye and leaders of Medical Colony and United Colony Ward no. 20.
GBs and Council members of the two colonies have been roping in manpower for the last one week to clean the heavily clogged drain which creates artificial floods in at least 12 colonies upstream.
Head GB of United Colony Ward no 20, Imna Longkumer said that the garbage thrown into the drain by nearby lounges was one of the main factors causing avoidable clogged drain. “We have taken out beverage bottles from the drain and kept it near the road for the authorities to collect,” Imna said.
Leaders of the two colonies have issued stern warning to the public not to throw garbage into the drain. “Defaulters will be fined heavily,” the GB warned. He informed public of the area to throw garbage, after dark, at the roadside opposite Hotel Ne-Li and another place near Nagarjan Police Point so that DMC workers could collect in the morning.
DMC Administrator, H. Atokhe Aye appreciated the initiative taken by the two colonies to clean the drainage. He appealed other colonies to emulate the activities of the two colonies in maintaining public properties as their own. He also discouraged public against mindless throwing of garbage into the drain.
The two colonies were of the view that if Bank Colony and Police Colony could also clean the drain in their respective jurisdictions, instances of clogged drain would come down.
United Colony Council Chairman, G. Kits said that United Colony and Medical Colony had also taken up road filling work opposite Government Higher Secondary School, Dimapur and cleaned the side drains.
Like most other drains, the drain near Nagarjan junction is no exception to unauthorized pillars erected in the middle of the drain resulting in free flow of seepage.
