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garbage. Efforts have started in
the last few years to save this
river. For this, local agencies,
voluntary organizations and
local people, together, are
also running the Save Chite
Lui Action Plan. This campaign
of cleaning the river has also
made an opportunity for wealth
creation from waste. Actually,
this river and its banks were full
of plastic and polythene waste.
The organization working to save
the river decided to build a road
using this polythene, that is, the
waste that came out of the river.
From that, in a village in Mizoram,
the state's first plastic road was
also been an inspiration to many built… that is cleanliness and
players. I wish Mithali all the very development as well.
best for her future.
Friends, one such effort has
My dear countrymen, in 'Mann ki also been undertaken by the
Baat', we have been discussing youth of Puducherry through
the successful efforts related their voluntary organizations.
to ‘waste to wealth’. One such Puducherry is situated along the
example is that of Aizwal, the sea coast. A large number of
capital of Mizoram. There is a
beautiful river 'Chite Lui' in Aizwal,
which due to neglect for years,
had turned into a heap of dirt and
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