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PASIGHAT, 26 Nov:<\/strong> In an endeavour to transform their educational institutes into zero-waste areas and instil the habit of cleanliness, the students of four schools in GTC and Tebo areas joined ‘Mission zero waste and plastic-free’, which was launched here in East Siang district by Deputy Commissioner Tayi Taggu on 1 October.<\/p>\n The mission was an initiative of the district unit of the Adi Bane Ane Kebang (ABAK-ESU).<\/p>\n On Saturday, the students participated in a cleanliness drive, and took out an awareness rally on cleanliness from Tebo village to the JNC auditorium here.<\/p>\n Green Valley School, Tebo was adjudged the best performing school.<\/p>\n The main aim of the event was to impart awareness on management of single-use plastics (SUP) and proper disposal of solid waste.<\/p>\n Speaking on the occasion, PMC Chief Councillor Okiam Moyong Borang said that “the ABAK-ESU’s continuous campaign on waste management is appreciable, and indeed should be included in schools’ activities, as the young minds are still prone to and more likely to embrace changes.”<\/p>\n “We must create a nature-loving future generation, and therefore environmental education should be taught<\/p>\n as early as possible,” Borang said, and appealed to the teaching community to “constantly motivate their students during teaching-learning process, so that they may understand how they can segregate and manage waste.”<\/p>\n ABAK-ESU general secretary Tigul Megu Darang said that “the ABAK-ESU will continue its mission to create a zero-waste lifestyle, sensitising the young children.<\/p>\n “They (the students) will not just stop here but will keep monitoring the progress of the schools’ waste management programme,” she added.<\/p>\n “The girl students should dispose of used sanitary pads and nappies by burning them at a corner of their garden compound, instead of littering public places,” Darang said, and appealed to the people to “refrain from using SUPs for a better environment and healthy society.”<\/p>\n She also urged tourists and visitors to not throw waste from their vehicles on the roadside.<\/p>\n Among others, ABAK-ESU vice president Germany Lego, joint secretary Anima Nonang, and Ward 1 Councillor Yalop Yomso were present on the occasion. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PASIGHAT, 26 Nov: In an endeavour to transform their educational institutes into zero-waste areas and instil the habit of cleanliness, the students of four schools in GTC and Tebo areas joined ‘Mission zero waste and plastic-free’, which was launched here in East Siang district by Deputy Commissioner Tayi Taggu on 1 October. The mission was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}