Sanitation…everyone’s concern: Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) administrator Elizabeth Ngullie and others during the sanitation drive at Lower PWD Kohima near Lotha Baptist Church Kohima on September 3. (Morung Photo)
Kohima | September 4 : The Lower PWD Youth Organization held a ‘social work cum awareness in civic sense’ with the initiative of the Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) on Saturday at Lower PWD, Kohima.
During the sanitation drive, Lower PWD colony residents along with Chandmari Higher Secondary School (CHSS) took part in the ‘drive for the dustbin free colony’ social work.
Elizabeth Ngullie, CEO Sanitation KMC, who visited the site, appreciated the colony for the sanitation drive. She emphasized the importance of cleanliness from indoor to outdoor.
She also said that Kohima has 19 wards and 39 colonies, out of which the KMC had issued ‘Pickup Truck’ to 10 wards, as the KMC alone cannot cover all the wards. The drive for dustbin free colony was initiated by the Kohima Municipal Council (KMC), especially the CEO sanitation. With this initiative, Rs. 30/- has been collected monthly in each household, in order to maintain and managed the collection of garbage from door to door by the Bolero Pick Up.
The ‘drive of dustbin free colony’ have been started and dustbin in and around the roadside dismantled as the roadside dustbin is affecting each and everyone health, Ngullie said. She also requests every right thinking citizens to co-operate in this ‘drive for the dustbin free colony’.
She thanked the Lower PWD Youth Organization for organizing this social work and hoped that this will be a landmark which will benefit the citizens of the colony and enhancing the civic sense of the people.
