This story is from October 24, 2016

Clean award for Karbi village

Two years before the launch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, 80 households of Sikdamakha village in Karbi Anglong district had started a collective effort to keep their village clean.
Clean award for Karbi village
Two years before the launch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, 80 households of Sikdamakha village in Karbi Anglong district had started a collective effort to keep their village clean.
GUWAHATI: Two years before the launch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, 80 households of Sikdamakha village in Karbi Anglong district had started a collective effort to keep their village clean. Four years later, their efforts have borne fruit.
The collective mobilization of human and community resources to ensure cleanliness resulted in Sikdamakha being adjudged the cleanest village in the district by the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC).

On October 14, the chief secretary of KAAC bestowed the title of 'cleanest village' on Sikdamakha village which is located in the Amri development block of Hamren civil subdivision.
"When we first heard about the village, we set out on a verification drive. We saw how the villagers had mobilised themselves in keeping their area clean. They are so passionate that they don't even let a wrapper or a piece of plastic spoil the picturesque village," said Morningkeey Phangcho, district nodal officer, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and assistant engineer PHE.
Among other measures, the villagers hang a bamboo basket, woven by themselves, in front of their homes. It is the duty of the villagers to collect any piece of paper or plastic on the road and deposit them in the organic bins.
The small Christian-dominated village woke up to the need for cleanliness when it found mounds of organic and inorganic waste left behind after every weekly market. Buyers and sellers from the neighbouring villages would gather in Sikdamakha and leave behind piles of waste. It was while cleaning the detritus of the weekly haat that the villagers decided to make cleanliness a way of life. They formed various sub-committees and each was entrusted with the task of keeping the village clean.
"The practice of Sikdamakha villagers has spread to nearby villages. The entire Umswai and Umpanai area has become one clean valley. I believe this could be the cleanest village in the entire state," said Nripendra Sarma, water conservationist and cleanliness activist.
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