ZIRO, Nov 14: Ziro MLA and Minister Agri & Allied Er. Tage Taki while participating in the 9th edition of Mission Clean Kley River (MCKR) on Monday urged the people not to allow the valley's lone river to turn into the Yamuna and urged all to make concerted efforts to save the dying Kley River.
Elaborating more on saving the Kley river from pollution and maintaining its cleanliness, Taki appealed to the house owners located near the river not to release household water directly to the river but to treat it prior to its release. Further, he also pointed out it was not possible for Apatani Youth Association (AYA) or the District Administration to continue hand-holding the cleanup operation for a long time but it was the conscientious duty of the citizens of the valley to keep their lone river clean.   
Despite being a Monday and a working day, more than 2500 denizens of Ziro valley turned up to lend their helping hands in cleaning up the 29 km stretch Kley river surrounding the valley.
Using traditional bamboo poles, brooms, nets, clippers and gunny bags, participants cleaned up the river from piled up garbage, plastic bottles, sanitary napkins, polythene bags and animal carcass which were later disposed of to their designated dumping sites using UD and Housing garbage disposal vans.
Urging the denizens of the valley to continue cooperating with AYA in keeping the Kley River clean, AYA president Tapi Mali informed that he District Administration had recently issued an office memorandum outsourcing the task of cleanliness of the river to AYA on pilot-project basis. Considering the sincerity, dedication and seriousness of AYA for the past eight years in the upkeep of our lone river, the District Administration, AWAZ, CBO’s, PRI leaders, student leaders and NGO’s in a joint meeting has entrusted the responsibility of maintaining the cleanliness of Kley River to AYA, which is a huge responsibility and daunting task for us, said Mali. The AYA president further appealed to the people to inculcate civic sense and not to dump garbage in the river which would make their task easier.
Apatani Women Association Ziro (AWAZ) president Hibu Lilly and General Secretary Leegang Ania appealed the women not to dump sanitary napkins, huggies and plastics items into the river. 
AWAZ representatives informed that this year they found the Kley River cleaner than last year. Perhaps our recent one-month awareness campaigns in the villages of the valley on ‘proper garbage segregation, management and disposal’ has been effective and has brought some positive changes in garbage management, they opined.  
The 9th edition MCKR was also participated by Lower Subansiri Deputy Commissioner Bamin Nime, all HoDs and staffs, PRI leaders, Apatani Women Association Ziro (AWAZ), Apatani Gaon Bura-Buri Association, CBOs, Apatani Students Union, students of St.Claret and Mudo Tamo colleges, higher secondary school students from all schools of the valley, market welfare committees and the general public. (DIPRO)

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