WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY: What #Darjeeling Needs to Learn
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth.
Swachh Bharat
International Plastic Bag Free Day and the Plastic Crisis: Are the Mountain States Doing Enough?
“Annually, approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide with more than one million bags used every minute.” “A plastic bag just has an average…
Darjeeling Burning!
The Dumping Chute is burning in Darjeeling and there has been some amount of talk about it, not as much as I expected but also a bit more than the previous years.
What Lies Beneath! The Truth about Darjeeling’s Waste
Just as we reached, a truckload came in, and after a minute another. The rains had subsided to a light drizzle but the fog remained. We stepped to the side and watched the drivers expertly manoeuvre their vehicles in a practised manner, edging the back tyres just above the precipice. The backs of the trucks were opened up and the workers rapidly pitchforked the contents down the edge. At such a place, there was no dilly-dallying, for the stench was overpowering and flies swarmed, a thick black on the bonnet of the trucks.
स्वच्छ अनि सफा दार्जीलिङ: हामी सबै कति को जिम्मेवार छौं
An article highlighting one of Darjeeling’s growing problem of cleanliness on the streets and how we need to own responsibilities to make the town clean.
Welcome to Darjeeling, where Cleanliness is nowhere near Godliness
Often described as ‘the most beautiful hill town’ and ‘the Queen of the Hills’, visitors to Darjeeling are mesmerized by the beauty of snow-clad Himalayas…
Scavengers Clean Up Tiger Hill Again – Urgent Need for Sensitization Felt
The Scavengers is a group of youths in Darjeeling. It is neither an NGO nor is it funded by anyone. This group has been toilling…
Mountaineers Clean up Truckloads of Trash from Darjeeling Hills
In January this year, over a hundred trainee mountaineers rappelled down Tenzing Rock, a natural rock in India’s Darjeeling city, named after the legendary Sherpa…
PLASTIC FREE DARJEELING: An Appeal to the Heads of Schools in Our Hills
A concerned group of youngsters who want to see Plastic Free Darjeeling, are requesting all the heads of various schools in our region to kindly…
PLASTIC FREE DARJEELING: A Silent Revolution at St Teresa’s
A silent revolution is taking place at St Teresa’s School, Darjeeling. Here students are using plastic waste to create household items. They are using this…