BETTER DARJEELING has been running its cleanliness project in Ward No. 14, Jawahar Busty in collaboration with Darjeeling Municipality.

Into its 11th day, the ward residents organized "Community Cleaning" in which the citizens of Darjeeling, Interact Club of North Point School, Rotary Club of South Field College, North Point College, Government College and even a lady from Kolkata came out to join hands with the residents of Jawahar Busty.

The atmosphere was festive and there was massive enthusiasm among the elders and children alike. The small kids especially, with them collecting plastic to make eco-bricks.

The Municipality workers have been working assiduously for the past few weeks to clean the Jawahar Busty Jhora and they have done tremendous job. They have completely changed the picture and condition of the Jhora.

Apart from the Environment group, Better Darjeeling has Sports, Arts and Music group as well. We are collecting a volunteers database for our future events in these fields. The volunteer registration link is http://bit.ly/BetterDarjeeling.

Anyone can register in the field one would like to volunteer. Come! Join us and Be the Change You Wish to See in Darjeeling! :)

Video Credit: Darjeeling's very own Vlogger and our Better Darjeeling team member : @Prayub Tamang
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This Sunday, 11th of August, we are all going down to Jawahar Busty to lend a hand in support for cleaning this jhora.If you can then pls do join us. There will live music and good food too that is being cooked by the Jawahar busty samiti for all the volunteers.

If can't make it tomorrow then you can still register yourself and we will update you about the next time when we need your helping hand!

Volunteering link is up now! : www.bit.ly/BetterDarjeeling

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#Betterdarjeeling is a citizens action forum, about the things that matter to us, collaborating with larger community on future projects that will lead Darjeeling towards a regenerative, sustainable and a happy place to live in. The first meeting a month ago at Glenary's had an amazing turn out of people that were interested in Environment, Art, Music and Sports and today we volunteer in groups that we are interested in.

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Environmental group is working on massive clean-up of Jawahar Busty Jhora all the way down to its confluence at Rungdung Khola in collaboration with the municipality workers, residents will be provided with better alternatives like community composting and eco-bricks manufacturing to deter them from throwing their waste into the Jhora. Systematic garbage collection will be started by the Municipality with hefty fines being other form of deterrence for habitual offenders. Once the project is successfully implemented in Ward No. 14, we will replicate it in other wards of the Municipality as well. The group is also making stickers for awareness, reusing beer bottles to use it as water bottles instead of plastic bottles.

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Artists of Darjeeling has already begun with the painting of walls and there’s so much more happening in 2019 likewise with the music and sports group. Follow the hashtag #betterdarjeeling for more updates.

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