Green Gazette - The Eastern Today Supplement

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Dibrugarh, Sunday, June 5, 2016

Since the inception of World Environment Day in the year 1974, the day has developed into a global platform for raising awareness and taking action on increasingly urgent issues from marine pollution and global warming to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. Millions of people around the world have been motivated by the 'people's day' for action, and are increasingly weaving their activities into a global movement.

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on JUNE 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

On the occasion of World Environment Day, The Eastern Today takes in the pride in wishing all its readers and encouraging everyone to be a part of this great day.

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Kohima as Smoke Free City ers and 41% of children buy tobacco products for their parents, relatives and elders. A tobacco product contains 4000 chemicals which destroy any part of the body and causes death to one million people in India every year. Many states and cities in India have been trying to reduce the consumption of tobacco.

Chandigarh was the first city in India to fully implement the government's smoke-free laws. In 2007, the Chandigarh administration declared its smoke-free city status, making indoor places smoke-free as well as prohibiting smoking in outdoor spaces like parks, markets and other public areas.

Nagaland's capital Kohima is now on ily Welfare Department of Nagaland, Nagaland has the second its way to a greener AND healthier future. As on highest smoker populaApril 29, the city was detion in the country, at Sushmita Jena clared smoke-free. Ac57%. "28% of school cording to the Joint Dichildren are tobacco chewers, 14% are smokrector of Health & Fam-

The movement was spearheaded by an NGO, Burning Brain Society, which put pressure on the Punjab and Haryana governments, asking for a status on the 2003 legislation that bans smoking in public places. After this, Kottayam in Kerala and Shimla followed suit. In 2010, Sikkim was declared the first smoke-free state in India, and in 2014 Himachal Pradesh became the second. According to the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI), about 11% of the world's population lives in smoke-free or tobacco-free nations.

The 739 million people in these coun-

tries are protected by comprehensive anti-tobacco national laws. Another 210 million people (about 3%) are protected on a city-level.

Tobacco use, including both the smoking and the nonsmoking forms of tobacco, is common in India. Tobacco use in different population groups ranges from about 15% to over 50% among men. Various studies done in Chandigarh, Delhi, Kanpur and Bangalore has shown the prevalence of "ever smoker" as 15.6%, with 28.5% among males and 2.1% among females. Vigorous anti-tobacco measures under the tobacco control programs yielded only a "quite" rate of 10%. Problem of smoking among adolescents is also increasing as ever smoking among the schoolgoing youth of age 13-15 years reported on an average a prevalence of about 10% as a part of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). The smoking rates increase with age. Similar trends were seen in Chandigarh, with an overall prevalence of ever smoking as 26.0% (95%CI: 22.3%-30.1%) among youth (15-24 years) - with 37.2% among males and 8.7% among females. Prevalence of current smoking among males was 29.9% as compared to 5.6% among females.

Styrofoam cutlery Sikkim government bans The pollution created by plastic is at its worst and strategy needs to be in place to reduce the impact of the disposable packaging from mounting up on the dumping places. Even though there is a waste disposal system set up by every state government for collection and disposal, there really is no system put in place for dealing with the plastic pollution. This is an issue that most places face. But for effective waste management in an eco-friendly manner, the Sikkim government has restricted the use of mineral water bottles in government programmes and banned the use of foam food containers all over the state.

In two recent notifications issued by the home department, the government said there has been rampant use of packaged drinking water during departmental meetings and functions which is creating a huge piles of garbage that adds to the burden of the landfill.

Sikkim which sets the benchmark for maintaining cleanliness has taken an extra step in trying to ensure that

they eliminate as many health and environmental hazards from the state.

The government has decided to ban the use and sale of all disposable items such as cups, plates and all food packaging items made out of styrofoam.

The use of styrofoam which is not being disposed of properly throughout the state has caused accumulation of waste which the government has taken notice of.

Styrofoam of expanded polystyrene form is a non bio-degradable substance which is widely used for making disposable cups, plates and food containers. Styrene which is present in the styrofoam is also said to have adverse effects on humans. Use of items made out Styrofoam creates a huge quantity of municipal waste in the form of disposable products which are environmentally hazardous and occupy a huge space in the landfill.

The government has also been initiating various measures to manage the waste and maintain a clean environment but it has been found that a lot of disposable foam containers are

being rampantly used not only in the bazar areas but also in the rural pockets. Being developed as a green state, Sikkim too had become India's first fully organic state in 2016 which means that all agricultural and horticultural produce are free of chemicals. Other states

should also learn from Sikkim who have made it a mission to ensure that their environment and surroundings remain clean and green. And as a result India could do well by phasing out this white poison from its food markets.

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The World Is Set To Lose 31 Heritage Sites.

Still Don't Believe In Climate Change?

The world's most famous natural and cultural heritage sites are threatened by risks linked to climate change including rising sea levels to extreme weather, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has warned in its report,'World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate (2016)'. The report gave a miss to the iconic Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Sundarbans in India.

The report documents climate impacts on 31 natural and cultural World Heritage sites in 29 countries from Africa, the Arab World, Asia and the Pacific, North America, Latin America and Europe. These sites are most vulnerable to increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, intensifying weather events, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons, warns the report.

It has explained the climate impacts at iconic tourism sites - including Venice, Stonehenge and the Galรกpagos Islands and other World Heritage sites such as South Africa's Cape Floral Region Protected Areas; the Port, Fortresses and city of Cartagena, Colombia; and the Shiretoko peninsula in Japan.

A study published in March 2014 too had warned that 136 World Heritage sites are threatened by rising sea levels over the next 2,000 years. However, this new report looks at the impact of other threats, including wildfires, increasing temperatures and droughts too.

"Climate change is affecting World Heritage sites across the globe," said Adam Markham (read interview of Markham with Down To Earth), lead author of the report and Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Program at UCS. "Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion. Many of the world's most important coral reefs, including in the islands of New Caledonia in the western Pacific, have suffered unprecedented coral bleaching linked to climate change this year. Climate change could eventually even cause some World Heritage sites to lose their status." The report also refers to the publicly accessible online World Heritage State of Conservation Information System for other reports which have identified climate-related threats.

World Heritage Sites From Australia And India Get A Miss All references to climate change's impact on World Heritage sites in Australia have been removed from the report as demanded

by Environment Department, Australia. The report initially included information about the Great Barrier Reef, as well as Kakadu National Park and the Tasmanian wilderness.

Markham, the lead author said, "All of these places have some impact, some of them are in extreme danger and I am disappointed that content about Australia was removed."

The Sundarbans, recognised as a World Heritage Site in 1987 too has not been listed in the report. The low-lying mangrove forests are highly susceptible to the effects of sea-level rise.

Both, the Great Barrier Reef and the Sundarbans have not been listed in the Postsdam study and this UNESCO report.

In fact, the Potsdam study hadwarned about the impact of sea-level rise on four major Indian sites including the Elephanta Caves, a group of monuments at Mahabalipuram and the famous Sun Temple

at Konarak, Odisha. tive to climate change and is suffering from Climate Impacts Will Affect The Ecosys- landslides as a result of the worsening extem And Tourism-Dependent Economy In treme rainfall events, are major problems.

Asia, Africa And Latin America Through all of its nearly 500-year history, At least nine out of these sites are the Cartagena in South America has been inexfamous national parks known for their tricably tied to the sea. The city now faces unique ecosystem and rich biodiversity in its greatest modern challenge as a result of Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Latin America. accelerated sea-level rise, coastal flooding For example, Komodo National Park in and shoreline erosion. The walls, parapets, Indonesia is known for forts and buildings that comKomodo dragon (Varanus prise the World Heritage site Kiran Pandey komodoensis), the largest livare subject to varying deing species of lizard and one grees of risk. that exists nowhere else on Earth. Increased rainfall associated with climate change in The Way Ahead the very dry Komodo islands could inunThis report demonstrates the urgent need date lizard breeding areas and change the to better understand, monitor and address

standing universal value," says the report and recommends World Heritage Committee to consider the risk of prospective sites becoming degraded by climate change before the sites are added to the list.

How Do Sustainable Development Goals And Paris Agreement Contribute In Conservation Of The World Heritage Sites The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers an important opportunity for World Heritage. The 2030 Agenda addresses cultural heritage in the context of sustainable development for the first time. Target 11.4 of the SDGs calls for "strengthening efforts to protect and safeguard the world's cultural and natural heritage" and directly reflects the World Heritage Convention, which was the first international treaty to link these two elements.

In the Paris Agreement, the new emphasis on preventing deforestation will increase the importance of forest conservation efforts in World Heritage sites, their buffer zones and surrounding areas. Reductions in fossil fuel use will have the added benefit of reducing the number of World Heritage sites threatened by oil and gas exploration and development.

The agreement also highlighted the need to implement a new international approach to managing climate-driven disasters by shifting from a focus on reducing disaster losses to a comprehensive management vision - building on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

vegetation to habitats that are less hospitable to them, warns the report.

Just less than 50 percent of the world's remaining endangered 880 mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) live in southwestern Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Gorillas are iconic here and the gorilla tourism has the potential to generate US$ 151 million each year. But the mountain gorillas which are already under threat from human encroachment and habitat loss - are put at longer-term risk from climate-driven changes in their forest habitat and from the potential increase of transmission of diseases from humans in a warmer world.

The threatened national parks in Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Latin America Africa * Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda * Cape Floral Region Protected Areas, South Africa * Lake Malawi National Park, Malawi Asia * Wadi Rum Protected Area, Jordan * Komodo National Park, Indonesia * Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal * Latin and South America * Huascarรกn National Park, Peru * Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, Brazil * Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island), Chile

climate change threats to world heritage. It suggests an early warning system to alert protected area managers of the emerging problems. It demands a global assessment of climate risk to all World Heritage sites, so that the most vulnerable sites can be identified and resources for preparedness and resilience can be directed to the most at-risk sites.

"Globally, we need to better understand, monitor and address climate change threats to World Heritage sites,"said Mechtild Rรถssler, Director of UNESCO's World Heritage Centre.

World Heritage sites must have "out-

It also established the potential for World Heritage sites to become key focal points for countries in building clean and resilient futures, and this may enable developing nations to access new support, including finance.

"The most important thing we can do to save World Heritage for our children and grandchildren is, implement the Paris Agreement and try to meet the goal of keeping global temperature rise to no more than 1.5?C. The planet's thermometer is already at 1?C, so there is no time to lose" says Markham, the lead author. Courtesy: Down to earth.

Worsening Extreme Weather Events Pose Risk To Cultural Heritage Rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, the exceptionally beautiful and important cultural landscape, which draws tourists from all over the world, is highly sensiA mangrove forest in the Sundarbans.

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Assam Gas Based Power Plant (AGBP), a power generation industry is the first venture of North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd (NEEPCO Ltd), a Government of India undertaking Corporation, in the field of gas based thermal sector with an installed capacity of 291 MW. First unit of the project was commissioned in the year 1995 and was dedicated to nation by then Minister of Power, Govt. of India, Late NKP Salve on 24th March 1995. Till the month of March, 2016, the Project has generated a total Electrical Energy of 28477.7465 MU. The Plant is generating electricity by using natural gas as fuel. Oil India Limited supplies natural gas through gas pipe lines belong to Assam gas Company Ltd. The Project is located at Bokuloni village of Dibrugarh District, Assam, around 13 KM from Oil town Duliajan. The Assam Gas Based Power Plant full fill the major demand of power not only in the state of Assam but for the entire North Eastern region.

Assam Gas Based Power Plant is fully committed for pollution free atmosphere of its surrounding and quality of service and believes sustainable development.

AGBP is certified under ISO 9001 (Quality Management), 14001 (Environmental management and OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health Safety Management Series) and maintain these standard in true sense. It is a combine cycle Power Plant. The waste heat generated by the gas turbine units are used in Heat Recovery Steam Generator resulting into environmental friendly power plant. Huge volume of water required for the Plant are being collected from river Buridihing i.e. from surface water instead of using underground water thus contributing for the cause of safeguarding environment.

The plant has Cooling Tower for heat exchanging of water so that the same DM water used for steam turbine can be reused again and again reducing consumption of water substantially. It has also its own Effluent Treatment plant for neutralizing the effluent generated from this plant prior to discharge into water bodies. Quality of discharged effluent is strictly monitored by its own Chemical laboratory as well as by engaging third party approved by Government Authority.

AGBP always insisted on using Bio- degradable consumables. Because of this approach, there is a drastic reduction in use of Non-Biodegradable consumables. The waste produced are segregated to three categories a.

Bio- degradable b.

Non- Bio Degradable Non Metallic c.

Non- Bio Degradable Metallic The people handling the garbage have been educated and properly instructed to segregate the garbage and place them in designated containers. Finally these are disposed off as per standard norms.

Reducing manual intervention in handling hazardous chemicals. Because of this the Risk level of chemical handling and exposure of employees to hazardous chemicals has drastically reduced.

Identification and categorization of employees as per their exposure to hazards and devising proper health check plan required, maintaining individual records and trending.

This has helped the authorities to impart effective Management control on the risks.

Assam Gas Based Power Plant has developed Green belts in its allotted land for project and colony area. So far 55 % of the total area of the site (109.58 acres) is covered under green belts.

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World Environment Day 2016 Pranjal Kumar Phukan "On this World Environment Day, I urge people and governments everywhere to overcome indifference, combat greed and act to preserve our natural heritage for the benefit of this and future generations." - Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on JUNE 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The World Environment Day was established to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. United Nations designed World Environment Day as the main tool to create worldwide awareness about hot environment issues. Main objectives of United Nations behind declaration of World Environment day was to give a human face to environmental issues, empower to become agents of sustainable and equitable development, promote to change attitude towards the environment and advocate partnership between each human being and each society to ensure a safe future.

It is celebrated to successfully get carbon neutrality, reducing greenhouse effects, promoting bio-fuels production by planting on degraded lands, use of hydro-power to enhance electricity production, encourage common public to use solar water heaters, energy production through solar sources, wind sources, ocean sources, Geothermal sources, focusing on the forest management etc. for environmental preservation.

Every year celebration is planned according to the particular theme and slogan of the year to bring effectiveness in the campaign all through the world. Like previous year, this year theme is "fight against the illegal trade in wildlife" declared by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

victims include helmeted hornbills and pangolins, as well as wild orchids and timbers like Rosewood - flowers and timber are also considered wildlife!

Wildlife crime endangers iconic elephants, rhinos, tigers, gorillas and sea turtles. In 2011, a subspecies of Javan rhino went extinct in Vietnam, while the last western black rhinos vanished from Cameroon the same year. Great apes have disappeared from Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo, and other countries could quickly follow. Lesser-known victims include helmeted hornbills and pangolins as well as wild orchids and timbers like Rosewood - flowers and timber are also considered wildlife!

Huge efforts to counter the illicit trade - including stronger policies, awareness campaigns and investments in community conservation and law enforcement - have scored some great successes.

However, many species remain at risk and it will take a dedicated and sustained effort by each and every one of us to turn the tide.

How can we do it? More people need to understand the damage this illicit business is doing to our environment, livelihoods, communities and security. We must change our habits and behavior so that demand for illegal wildlife products falls. More awareness and action pushes

2016 Theme: Zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife The booming illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding Earth's precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage and driving whole species to the brink of extinction. The killing and smuggling is also undermining economies and ecosystems, fueling organized crime, and feeding corruption and insecurity across the globe.

Wildlife crime endangers iconic elephants, rhinos, tigers, gorillas and sea turtles. In 2011, a subspecies of Javan rhino went extinct in Vietnam, while the last western black rhinos vanished from Cameroon the same year. Great apes have disappeared from Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo, and other countries could quickly follow. Lesser-known

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governments and international bodies to introduce and enforce tougher laws and combat those still willing to break them.

This year's theme for WED - Go Wild for Life - encourages you to celebrate all those species under threat and take action of your own to help safeguard them for future generations. This can be about animals or plants that are threatened within your local area as well as at the national or global level - many local extinctions will eventually add up to a global extinction! Whoever you are, and wherever you live, show zero-tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife in word and deed, and make a difference.

WED celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.

Through WED, the UN Environment Programme is able to personalize environmental issues and enable everyone to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.

WED is also a day for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.

(Author is Regional General Secretary, CaSI Global US and Executive Council Member of Gerson Lehrman Council, Texas, US. He can be contacted at pranjal_xlri@yahoo.com)

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Leopards In This Village Boosted Its Tourism, But Then Things Went Horribly Bad About 130 kilometres south of Jodhpur, there is a fascinating tale of wildlife conservation.

Through the efforts of the local community, the leopards of Jawai, a village in Pali district of Rajasthan, have not only increased in number, but are also being talked about.

The leopard is the most elusive of all big cats.

A thriving tourism industry has come up in Jawai thanks to frequent leopard sightings.

Jawai is not a protected wildlife sanctuary. In this particular area, the leopard cohabits with the villagers and other animals. But the interesting thing is that no major cases of man-animal conflict have been reported as yet. It seems that the Jawai leopards are living harmoniously in the midst of people.

The Jawai leopards reside in a stunning landscape surrounded by granite rocks, the Jawai dam-the biggest dam in western Rajasthan and the colourful local people. All these factors make the place a hot tourist spot.

The Shadow Of Greed Though the picture looks promising, there is trouble in paradise. A recent visit to the area revealed that conservation of leopards in Jawai is moving in the same direction as other wildlife projects.

Reckless tourism fuelled by greed with no regards for the animal as well as the people is undermining the success made so far.

As soon as the news about the Jawai leopards spread, people with money and political connections started arriving here to set up business.

Many of these people had no prior connection with the area. Supported by political leaders and having loads of money, they now dominate Jawai and set the rules.

If one visits the area in the evening, one comes across several safari vehicles carrying loads of people. The shocking thing is the blatant disregard towards the preservation of the wildlife and the existence of the local people.

As safari operators charge exorbitant amount of money from tourists, they become desperate to show the latter leopards by any means possible.

This involves spotlighting, trespassing on

people's property and even mimicking the goat sound to attract leopards. The locals are disturbed by this sudden influx of strangers in the area.

Involving Locals It will be much better if locals are trained in simple wildlife biology and taught to speak English preferred by most tourists. But sadly, they get no such training.

What shocked me the most was an "agreement" between a powerful hotelier and local landowners. This gives the former an exclusive right to enter the landowners' properties which are located strategically near leopard-sighting spots. In return, a monthly amount is paid to the landowners.

This particular hotelier has signed several such agreements. The landowners can be spotted guarding their lands to prevent anyone other than this hotelier's vehicles to enter their properties. On a legal ground there may be nothing wrong in it, but it seems to be a typical example of how people with financial power establish monopolies and crush competition.

This also explains why only a few camps and small hotels owned by locals have come up in Jawai. If this trend continues, no big local establishment will ever come up in the area. All that locals will ever do is wash dishes and open restaurant and hotel gates.

This is an unsustainable development model mainly for two reasons. First, the local community, which has lived harmoniously with the leopards for many years and helped conserve and sustain them, is getting no benefit.

All they get is low-paid work as drivers and security guards whereas rich businessmen from outside are making huge profits.

Second, since these leopards do not thrive on a conserved forest land, this kind of tourism is a threat to their lives and habitat. It will eventually lead to the local community's disinterest in conserving the animals.

In fact, the locals stand to lose in terms of cattle preyed upon by animals, besides putting up with apprehension and nuisance created by

the tourism industry. A time may come when nothing will compel the leopards to remain in Jawai any longer. If they get tired of being looked at and constantly photographed, they may simply move elsewhere.

The Rajasthan government and other stakeholders must step in and make sure that this fascinating success story is not reduced to a money-making business by a few greedy people.

There are three things that need to be done.

The first and foremost step is to involve the local community by empowering them not only

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their confidence and trust. This important aspect often gets tricky as these powerful people call distributing clothes and stationery to local schools as community engagement. This is a whitewash and is merely an activity on their itineraries which make them look responsible.

Honest engagement would be to train youngsters to become wildlife experts in future who are capable of running their own businesses.

The tourism industry must get this fact straight that it is the leopard and the local community which created tourism opportunities in Jawai in the first place. Let's hope that the leopards of Jawai become a model for others to follow.

Leopards In This Village Boosted Its Tourism to get respectable jobs, but also to train them so that they become successful entrepreneurs.

Tourism activity should be regulated to ensure less interference in the lives of the leopards and the local community.

Outsiders must work with the locals and earn

The blog has been co-authored by Armin Rosencranz. He is a lawyer, political scientist and professor of law at the Jindal Global University. He founded Pacific Environment, an international environmental NGO, that he led for nine years.

AGBP AT A GLANCE At Present there are 6164 trees (approximately) in this site i.e. at plantation density of 56.25 trees per acre of land.

AGBP unit of NEEPCO has grabbed all the occasion including observation of Environment Day, Earth Day, and Water Day etc for plantation of trees in its premises as well as in outside. It is also going to develop an Arboretum in its plant premises in consultation with Assam Agriculture University, Jorhat.

For controlling of NOx, Steam injection system in 6(six) Nos. of Gas Turbine has been incorporated for a total cost of Rs. 491.4 Lakhs 30 M long Chimney are provided with adequate insulations up to 18 mtrs. The plant is going to be installed OnLine Air Pollution Monitoring system including Dust Monitoring in its Gas Turbine units.

Assam Gas Based Power Plant has taken all possible measure for controlling the noise generated from this plant so that noise generated from this plant cannot affect the people in the vicinity. Some of these measures area) Each Gas Turbine and Gas Turbine Generator is provided with special type of enclosures for controlling of noise pollution. For this purpose an amount of Rs. 214.63 Lakhs has been incurred till date. b) Exhaust and inlet Air system are

specially designed and provided with silencers for controlling of the noise pollution. For this purpose an amount of Rs. 291.14 Lakhs for 2(two) numbers of BHEL machines has been incurred till date. c) In Gas Booster Station, the building is designed with a wall thickness off 225 mm to control the noise within the permissible limits.

Assam Gas Based Power Plant has developed two parks in its premises for benefit of AGBP families as will as families resided in its vicinity. It has maintained a Nursery for development of these two parks. Vermi compose are produced in the nursery for use in gardening.

In order to maintain its social responsi-

bility and keeping in mind of using pollution free energy, AGBP has provided solar street lights to its surrounding village. Rs. 24.00 Lakh has been incurred in this purpose.

AGBP has provides sufficient numbers of Dustbin in the colony area in order to maintain its cleanliness. All household garbage in collected by departmental truck extensively used for garbage carrying and disposed in its own acquired land in a scientific way. Dustbins in permanent nature are also provided in the market area by spending 1.5 Lakh of ruppes in order to maintain hygienic in the surrounding of this plant.

Various Awareness Programs are organized in this plant from time to time for creating awareness among the mass people in connection with "Importance of conservation of water", "Save our Earth by less pollution", "III effect of plastic in our environment" etc.

Cleanliness drives are also initiated in this power plant by involving mass people in various occasions. Under the Prime Minister's Swarch Bharat Abhiyan, a cleanliness drive is also organized by AGBP in Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh from 30th November'2015 to 2nd December'2015.

An amount of Rs. 2.00 Lakh has been incurred in this occasion.

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