Two NE cities in ‘Forum of Cities that Segregate’

Assam Tribune | Sobhapati Samom | New Delhi, Dec 23

Two municipal bodies from two Northeastern States join hands with 18 municipalities from 11 other Indian States to form a new ‘Forum of Cities that Segregate’ to take up a new urban solid waste management initiative that could provide needed impetus to the campaign for waste management across the country.

The two municipal bodies are Imphal Municipal Council (IMC) of Manipur and Gangtok Municipal Corporation (GMC) of Sikkim. The other Municipal bodies include Bengaluru, Panchgani, Indore, Allappuzha, East Delhi, New Delhi (NDMC), Bhopal, Gurugram, Thiruvanthapuram, Mysuru, Patna, Greater Hyderabad and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).

The joining of these two Municipal bodies from NE in the Forum came when New Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) initiated and launched the ‘Forum of Cities that Segregate’ during a stakeholder’s cum media briefing in New Delhi recently.