Kit K Chishi
Model village, Chümoukedima
Micro Mini metros like Dimapur and Kohima town should have waste disposal plants, period! As our cities and town grows, there is a need to incubate waste products to a safe disposal unit or an energy convertible plant. And since we are already running out of free spaces and landfills to use for a passive dumpsite in and around the city, which in itself is a gross hazard for green code and are detrimental to civic health and resources. For instance, the dump burial in sunrise colony (Burma Camp) is exceeding its organic bio-capacity to continue using it as a waste/litter compound, and is posing exponential menace for mundane lives and regular commutes!
Even in the state of Assam the town garbage are disposed in mass heaps in the purlieu of the river bay, and they are either open incinerated or left there to rot and get washed away by monsoon floods; this is not a total solution but this only compounds and transfers the solid and inorganic waste from one form to the other. And we have already lost ethical and non ethical disposal spaces in and around Dimapur: from riverbanks to roadside or marsh pits in the vicinities! And won't it be more adequate if we'd first treat the suburbs and town sewages from the sewer lines to a water management plant and then that way we can drain it to the river (Chathe/Dhansiri). This would lobby more river waterway and ensure a cleaner and fresh river stream for the biodiversity around it, and for the wellbeing of the overall city health and ecology.
