Agartala, Feb 25, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk

Agartala, Feb 25: Jampui Hill Mizo community in collaboration with the Kanchanpur Sub-Divisional Forest Office has undertaken a novel initiative to keep Jampui Hills clean and green.

Of late, clean and green campaign gains greater momentum in the region with the preparation and installation of 10 new high quality reflective signage- one for each village, with beautiful and catchy slogans written in English and the local Mizo languages. 

The initiative was also collaborative one. While Zampui Literary Society (ZLS) prepares the slogans, Kanchanpur Sub-Divisional Forest Office takes responsibilities of logistics and expenses, and Mizo Convention Youth Wing identifies the locations and installs the signage.

The slogans go like these: "Welcome to Vanghmun village, the cleanest village of Tripura", "God gave us green, now, let’s keep it clean", "You can be the agent of change - by being clean", "A clean place is a safe place", "A clean heart dwells in a clean place", "It's cool to be clean", "Pick it up, clean it up, make a change", "A clean scene will give a good gene to your children", "God dwells in the cleanest of place", "Let's make Jampui Hill clean again!"

The government and the community partnership went a step farther when the Sub-Division Forest Department and the Mizo Convention Youth Wing came up with a bigger partnership to plant ornamental and fruit-bearing trees along the roadside throughout Jampui Hill during this coming monsoon season, and decided to work together hand in hand to enforce "protected biodiversity area" status of ThaidawrTlang, the highest peak of the Hills and its surrounding areas.

The partnership is also vying for areas where they can work together to implement one upcoming project called "Jampui Hill(Ecotourism Development Destination)", which is a Micro Plan, SCATFORM Project under Tripura Forest Department. All these were being done under the active leadership of SumanMalla, Sub-Divisioal Forest Officer (SDFO) Kanchanpurand Dr ZairemthiamaPachuau, General Secretary of Mizo Convention.