SHILLONG: Word Wide Initiative, an NGO, has conducted a study of two villages — Shangpung Mission and Wahiajer Village — under the Meghalaya Clean and Green Village awards.
These two villages had been honoured with the Meghalaya Clean and Green Village awards.
An official of the Community and Rural Development on Monday said that the NGO has submitted its report and they have prepared a project to launch various short term and long term measures for protection of the environment.
To make the village clean and green, bio-digesters, toilets and irrigation units have been constructed in the villages. “It is just a pilot project to show how a village should address the issue of environment protection,” the official said.
It may be mentioned that the State Community and Rural Development Department has launched the Meghalaya Clean and Green Village Award to motivate people to maintain cleanliness in their respective villages.
The award seeks to trigger a sense of competition and community action towards cleaner and greener villages, he stated, adding that the villages which wins the award are given an amount of Rs.2 lakh besides another amount of Rs.10 lakh for formulating development programmes for the village.
The award was launched last year in all 39 blocks of the State to promote sanitation and hygiene through community involvement and partly to promote tourism and communities, in turn, have to act on parameters such as full recovery of solid and sanitation, maintenance of common areas and forests.
It is expected that the scheme of the Government would help in minimize leakage of sewages and effluents to water bodies and catchment areas and also to encourage best practices in health and sanitation, environment sectors as well as village management.
Winners of the award are felicitated during the Republic Day celebrations in the State.
