Volunteers, taxi drivers clean up litter in Kohima

Our Correspondent
Kohima, March 16 (EMN): Volunteers along with taxi drivers cleaned litter and segregated wastes from the road along Tinpati area in Kohima town, using brooms and shovels, as part of the second phase of "Keep Our City Clean" campaign on Monday morning.

Led by Khriehuzo Lohe, the convenor of the campaign, volunteers along with a group of taxi drivers conducted the cleanliness drive at the designated Tinpati area in Kohima.

Lohe told Eastern Mirror that the cleanup programme at Tinpati area was "awesome", adding that many people lauded the initiative taken up by the volunteers towards the endeavour of keeping the city free from pollution. "People are very interested. They want our city to be clean. They give good comments to us; they cheer us. They even come and join us in sweeping,” he said. He further informed that a sequence of cleanliness campaigns is in the line up; which will be conducted in the coming days.

Women and other residents of the area also joined in the cleanliness drive.

“Keep Our City Clean” was initiated by a group of like-minded volunteers comprising public leaders, elders, government officials and Kohima residents on March 6. A voluntary movement with the theme, "Together We Can", it invites and calls upon the denizens and dwellers of Kohima to be responsible in contributing towards the cleanliness and sanitation of the state capital.

The initiative aims at organising events in Kohima by coordinating with taxi drivers, local entrepreneurs, developing agencies, bikers clubs, youths of different churches, student groups, NGOs, NCC, police, armed forces, villages, local and non-local communities etc.