ITANAGAR, Jul 7: Students from Dera Natung Government College (DNGC), interning at the Youth Mission for Clean River (YMCR) as part of their course curriculum, carried out a door-to-door Information Education and Communication (IEC) campaign to promote waste segregation.
Supported by the Itanagar Smart City Development Corporation, the campaign took place here at the Tagin Colony, IG Park, Abo Tani Colony, Division 4, and Chandranagar to encourage better waste disposal practices.
Twenty student interns, organized into five groups of four, visited over 100 households, with each group covering around 20 homes. They explained how to separate wet (biodegradable) and dry (non-biodegradable) waste, using green bins for wet waste and blue bins for dry waste to improve waste management and recycling. Pamphlets and posters were distributed to households and local vendors to reinforce the message.
“Our goal was to help people adopt waste segregation as a daily habit,” said one student intern. The campaign demonstrated residents how to compost wet waste like food scraps at home, dispose of non-recyclable dry waste through Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) garbage trucks, and give recyclable items like paper, plastic, and metal to local scrap dealers.
Many residents welcomed the effort and expressed interest in following these practices. However, challenges included language barriers when communicating with elderly residents who didn’t speak Hindi or English.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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