His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa is the Head of of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage of Buddhism. This lineage is headquartered at the Druk Sangag Choeling Monastery – also popularly known as Dali Gumba in Darjeeling, India.

Yogis and Yoginis from across the Himalayas and the world had joined the prayers and the holy grand puja, aimed at clearing obstacles and bestowing blessings to all beings in the new lunar year.

In his message, His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa said, ‘It’s truly amazing to have all the yoginis and yogis from different retreat places of the Himalayan regions and other parts of the world joining the 7-day Mahakala Drupchod at Darjeeling. The rarity of this kind of gathering has to be appreciated from the depth of our heart.”

He also wished everyone, a very happy new year.

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Recognizing this fact, yesterday the 28th of Jan, Darjeeling Municipality organized a meeting with representatives of local Samaj, NGO experts and community elders in a bid to urge residents and tourists to stop using single-use plastics and Styrofoam products in the town.

The Darjeeling Municipality has further urged residents and tourists to prevent taking single-use plastics to Tiger Hill.

Every year, Darjeeling gets close to a million tourists each tourist season, and they leave behind tonnes of trash in the form of plastic wrappers, packs, bottles. The hill municipalities do not have a mechanism set in place to deal with these non-degradable waste, as a result of which, the waste ends up in our streams and hill sides.

Speaking at the occasion Pratibha Rai, the Darjeeling municipality chairperson “We will constitute a monitoring team to ensure that the rules are not violated. As of now, we are not thinking on slapping fines, but want to first create awareness.”

As experts, the Darjeeling Municipality had invited Mr. Roshan Rai of DLR Prerna and Mr. Utsow Pradhan of Tieede of 8th Mile (near Sonada).

Corresponding with TheDC, Mr. Roshan Rai said, “Darjeeling Municipality had organised an awareness workshop on solid waste management with samaj representatives. Solutions at individual, samaj and municipality were discussed which included reduction and segregation waste at source, treatments like composting, gardening and linkage to recycling as well as policies that will stop the use of single use plastic.”

When asked on community involvement, Mr. Rai said, “A decentralised approach addressing specific needs like for Tiger Hill, Bich Bazaar, Mahakal Dara, hotels and resturants, samaj and educational institutions were also discussed.”

However, given that such meetings have been held in the past without much success. Nonetheless, “It’s a great beginning and adds to the good practices of door to door collection and going vat free. A long term road map for waste management is key with a basket of options including green livelihoods and continual people’s engagement will help in making Darjeeling swachh,” added Mr. Rai

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Looking at how gorgeous and marvellous the pictures are, we thought that they deserved to be viewed by a larger audience. Thus, we will be compiling the featured pics over the week and posting them every Sunday on our website and Facebook page.

We hope you enjoy these pics and keep supporting us with ever beautiful inputs over Instagram, by tagging us in your pics that are of or related to us, our place and our people.

You can tag us @thedarjchron on instagram, DM us your pic and use #thedarjchron #thedarjeelingchronicle with your uploads.

Here are our featured pics for this past week

Featured Pic no 1: Darjeeling Hills on a sunny day “wide and majestic view of the hills and the mighty Kanchenjunga” by @subham_basu

Featured Pic no 2: Sea of Clouds and the sunset “A rare treat of mellowly clouds floating under your feet at Singalila , with a horizon painted with the sunset; the sun just refusing to go down” by @debasish_32

Featured pic no 3: The iconic Capital Hall clock tower “Landmark of Darjeeling – the Clock Tower” By @the_himalayan_diaries_

Featured pic no 4: Toy train and the snowy road “Here’s our own little majestic toy train, going down amidst the snow… The ship cruises on the sea of ice” by @arkajit_paul

Featured pic no 5: Sketch of the Capital Tower “A meticulous sketch representation of the Capital Clock tower where the heart of Darjeeling lies” by @la_ayush

Featured pic no 6: Toy train and the Snowfall “A magnificent view of the toy train at Ghoom Railway Station, on the night of the snowfall” – by Wangdi

Featured pic no 7: Coffee at Glenary’s “How would you like your coffee? Regular or mountain?” – by @theorangeepistles

Featured pic no 8: Kurseong Tower “There are more beautiful ways to play hide and seek…
This tall guy is unable to hide himself though” – By @perfectly_mr_imperfect

Featured pic no 9: A morning in the hills “Perks of being a morning person. Beautiful golden rays of early morning sun. Wouldn’t you rather wake up to this morning glow instead of the incessantly screaming alarm clock?” – by @hiimanshu.d

Featured pic no 10: Autumn Flowers “A subtle blend of winter and spring. Somewhere in Darjeeling” – by @indian_diary

Featured pic no 11: Sketch of a Gorkha Woman “An out of the world sketch representation of a Gorkha woman in traditional attire” – by @zigme_dorjay_tamang

Please do let us know, which one among these are your favourite. We look forward to your comments, and your amazing pics.  

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