Morung Express News
Mopungchuket | August 21
A seminar on ‘cleanliness and waste management’ was held at Mopungchuket village community hall on August 20 organized by the Mopungchuket village council in collaboration with the Mopungchuket Baptist Church Youth Ministry and The Greensight Project.
The resource persons for the seminar were Toshi Sanglir, ABAM Youth Secretary, Impur and Limalenden Longkumer, District Ambassador, SBM Mokokchung. The former spoke on the topic of “recycling and upcycling” waste materials while the latter presented an overview on “cleanliness and waste management” with particular reference to Mopungchuket village.
Chairman of Mopungchuket Village Council, Aosadang Lemtur while delivering his introductory note said that the seminar was being organized as a necessary step toward “saving the environment that we are destroying” and thanked the villagers for turning up in good numbers.
Following the presentations by the two resource persons, fruitful interactive discussions were held where the villagers shared their own views and ideas on the subject matter. A set of “resolutions” were also adopted consisting of “short term and long term” goals. Keeping the cemetery clean, sensitizing school children on cleanliness, digging of compost pits by each household in the village and proper collection and disposal of household waste were some of the “short term” resolutions adopted, which was to be practiced until a proper “long term” system of waste management was established in the village. The house also resolved to constitute a “research committee” to study the ways, means and resources for bringing out a systematic waste management system as part of their “long term” goal. The seminar also observed that “cleanliness” should be adopted by each citizen as a “way of life.”
A leaflet on ‘plastic-free Mopungchuket’ published by Mopungchuket Baptist Church Youth Ministry and The Greensight Project was also released as part of the seminar.
