The District Administration Kohima organized training and skill development of public officials, government officials and civil society organizations of Kohima under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) 2023-24 at DPDB Hall in Kohima today, DIPR informed.
ADC Kohima, Rhosietho Nguori, NCS, in his brief note stated that NCAP was launched in the year 2019 and the training was held to disseminate and impart the knowledge to the general public about clean air. He said that it was surprising to learn that the Quality of Air in Kohima city was contaminated and does not meet the national standard and added that we have failed to realize that we are all equally responsible for air pollution. He also mentioned that reducing air pollution depends on everybody.
He also said that District Administration has been reaching out to different section of the society, schools imparting the NCAP and called upon all the officers to take up this challenge to achieve clean air collectively.
In the 1st session of the training, resource person Junior Scientific Assistant (JSA), Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB), Rongsenben Longkumer highlighted on Ambient Air Quality and its Pollution, she stated that under the National Air Monitoring Programme (NAMP) there are 11 manual monitoring stations and 1 CAAQMS station in Nagaland. Seven manual stations at Dimapur and four stations at Kohima. She highlighted that the source of Air pollution are mainly from dust raised from vehicular movement on the dusty roads, Vehicular emissions, burning of wastes such as municipal waste bins, garden/leave waste etc., emission from small scale industries such as stone crushers, sand mahals, tyre vulcanization unit, etc. she added that the Central Government launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) as a long-term, time-bound, national level strategy to achieve the targets and Centre aims at 40% reduction in particulate matter by 2026.
She also highlighted that the average concentration of RSPM for Kohima city for consecutive years i.e from 2020 to 2023 stationed at opposite NST offices has decreased from 75 to 67, while High school junction has increased from 95 to 106, PWD junction from 96 to 71 and upper Midland from 54 to 64.
She mentioned that the air quality of Kohima and Dimapur city has been placed under “non-attainment city” with respect to Particulate Matter and further added that the Local Bodies and Gram Panchayat/Village Councils shall ensure that open burning of Plastic Wastes does not take place.
Resource person, Scientist ‘B’ NPCB, Yanathung Kithan gave a brief note on the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. He said that that waste generator shall segregate and store the waste generated by them; wrap securely the used sanitary waste; reduce solid waste at source, recycle plastic, metal, rubber, and glass by separating them and sending them to recycling for the manufacture of other products.
He further said that no waste generator shall throw, burn or burry the solid waste generated by him, on streets, open public spaces outside his premises or in the drain or water bodies, all waste generators shall pay such user fee for solid waste management, the bio-degradable waste shall be processed, treated and disposed off through composting or bio-methanation within the premises as far as possible, every street vendor shall keep suitable containers for storage of waste generated during the course of his activity, all resident welfare and market associations shall ensure segregation of waste at source by the generators.
Resource person, JSA, NPCB Y. Hanpong K highlighted on Mission Life.
Later the participants also went for a field exposure trip to KMC waste management facilities. In the second session, ADC chaired that programme and gave a brief highlight of the training to the Civil society organization.
