Wednesday, December 11, 2019

STH Activities as a part of the Darjeeling Himalaya Initiative : International Mountain Day (11Dec2019) Celebration at Kalimpong

11Dec is International Mountain Day and DHI decided to celebrate the event with a 3 day training of peers session in Kalimpong to combat another scourge of the mountains which is solid waste. As tourists throng to the mountains, they leave behind mountains of garbage and if we are to have a healthy lifestyle where we live we must deal with the waste problem in the mountains without delay.
As mentioned 46 young men and women are currently undergoing intensive training in waste management at a hotel in Kalimpong.
Placed below is an image of the waste dumps of Darjeeling and Kalimpong towns which are still burning as I write this article.



Praful Rao
Kalimpong district
Darjeeling - Sikkim Himalaya

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