SHILLONG: Many campaigns and awareness programme for protecting river Wahumkhrah have died its own natural death over the years but the river which was once a glory for Shillong continues to bear the brunt of human onslaught in the form of pollution.
Speaking to reporters here recently about the need to protect the river , KHADC CEM, PN Syiem said that the State Government had failed to implement the rules and regulations.
“ The problem is we are very weak in law making and implementing it and if the Government had a strong law, no one would have thrown garbage in the river because they know they would be in jail for 5-6 days,” Syiem told reporters
Maintaining a huge scheme is required assistance from the Ministry of Water Resources for protecting river Wahumkhrah, Syiem also expressed his happiness over the fact that fencing are being placed through the river in a bid to discourage people from throwing garbage onto the river.
When asked if the KHADC has failed to protect the river he said, “ How much can you expect financially and manpower wise from a small institution like the KHADC.”
He ,however, said that the KHADC was continuously highlighting about the need to protect the river and it was also providing small schemes to different localities which would play a role in saving the river from garbage
It was in the year 2013, when the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) had launched the ‘Clean Wahumkhrah Mission’