CLEAN VILLAGE MAWLYNNONG
Mawlynnong is a village in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in North East India. It is well known and notable for its cleanliness. It is situated in 90km from Shillong along the India - Bangladesh Border.
IMPRESSING PEOPLE:
Over 500 local people are handwoven multi purpose baskets for used to keep the place clean. The villagers used to speak only by action not by words. They never correct tourists, but they may observe and learn the cleanliness while tourists throw out the plastics in roads. When the villages have no hesitation to pick it up.
GOOD PHILOSOPHY:
These villagers are living with philosophy of functional public toilets, solar powered street lights and a ban on smoking and using plastics. It impressed more tourists flocked to the quaint village, home to members of the kasi tribe.
STRATEGY OF CLEANLINESS:
Meghalaya chief Minister Conrad Sangka and the villagers locals have taken their mission ipa notch working towards ban on plastic wrappers, Food packets. Plan to keep checking counter so that there will be decreasing amount of solid waste generator. Every tourist handed a pamphlet and back story how the village head walked door-to-door collecting money to built toilet.
EMPOWERING THE CHILDREN:
Children are taught to walk around the village with sacks and pick up any garbage they see then they segregate the waste into different categories.
Bio de-gradable waste is composed to be used as fertiliser and the remaining solid waste are reused. Plastic bags are make to use swings and to wrap saplings leftover plastics and collected by municipality and it is disposed in dumping yards on the outskirts over a month other villagers have its own measures.
