{"id":30076,"date":"2018-05-27T02:21:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=30076"},"modified":"2018-05-27T02:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:51:53","slug":"hundreds-take-part-in-himalayan-cleanup-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/05\/27\/hundreds-take-part-in-himalayan-cleanup-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds take part in &#8216;Himalayan Cleanup&#8217; drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ROING, May 26:<\/strong> Hundreds participated in a cleanliness drive from the market to the Eze river here on Saturday as part of &#8216;The Himalayan Cleanup&#8217; drive which is being organized in 12 Himalayan mountain states in the country to rid the mountains of plastic waste.<br \/>\nThe drive here was jointly organized by the Lower Dibang Valley district administration, NGO AAMYA, the Sustainable Development Forum of Arunachal Pradesh, the Dibang Development Council Agency, I Clean Roing, the DUDA, the PHED, Navayuga, and the Integrated Mountain Initiative, Roing.<br \/>\nDeputy Commissioner Mitali Namchoom recommended the use of jute bags instead of plastic bags, and said, &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s small contribution towards the mission can bring about a real change.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe advised the people to reduce the use of plastic in their everyday lives.<br \/>\nADC Cheshta Yadav led the pledge-taking ceremony. Paul Chawang of AAMYA presented a brief on the cleanup drive, which he said &#8220;aims to bring the issue of waste to the forefront and to understand what waste and brand audit are.&#8221;<br \/>\nLater, a &#8216;waste auditing&#8217; was carried out at DUDA Viewpoint by the staff of AMYAA and volunteers of I-Clean Roing.<br \/>\nIn East Kameng, the PHE&amp;WS department in collaboration with the district administration conducted cleanliness drives at various places across the district under the &#8216;Himalayan Cleanup&#8217; drive.<br \/>\nDC Gaurav Singh Rajawat, members of various organizations, NGOs, committees, etc, and members of the public joined the drive.<br \/>\nIn Tawang, local NGO Environment Protection Society with support from the PHE&amp;WS department, Manjushree Vidyapith and local NGOs carried out the cleaning drive. (With DIPRO inputs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROING, May 26: Hundreds participated in a cleanliness drive from the market to the Eze river here on Saturday as part of &#8216;The Himalayan Cleanup&#8217; drive which is being organized in 12 Himalayan mountain states in the country to rid the mountains of plastic waste. The drive here was jointly organized by the Lower Dibang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30076","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=30076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}