Kohima Smart City under 100 days campaign conduct various activities

A school student collects empty plastic bottles during the cleanliness cum beautification drive below Box Cutting Area held on August 9. (Photo Courtesy: Kohima Smart City)
 

Kohima, August 12 (MExN): Kohima Smart City has completed 47 days of the ‘100 days Smart City Special Initiative Campaign on Sanitation’ with the rest of the 99 Smart Cities in the country. 

Braving the hot weather on August 9, the Kohima Smart City in collaboration with Green Team Kohima and volunteers undertook cleanliness cum beautification drive below Box Cutting Area, stated a press release issued by Joint CEO, Kohima Smart City.

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 team appeals to the public to stop throwing garbage in the area. Three more dustbins were also installed along the pedestrian pavement near SKV Fuel Station.

Under the 100 days campaign, awareness programme and consultative meetings have been conducted with schools, colleges, students and youth organisations, church groups, women groups, hotels and restaurants and colony and ward functionaries on varied subjects like Plastic Pollution, Waste Management, Role of Citizens towards a Smarter Kohima, etc.

The Green Team Kohima 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.

Upcoming activities include awareness programmes with taxi and bus unions and a consultative meeting with Kohima Chamber of Commerce on enforcement of Plastic Ban. Installation of nets at strategic locations in Dzuvuru River is being undertaken in collaboration with Kohima Village Students Union and the Wards. This will include installation of barricades along the bridge railings to discourage people from coming and dumping their garbage directly into the rivers.