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Sikkim’s Hariyo Makha among TOP 18 'Wow Initiative' at Swachhta Saarthi Samaroh 2022, Delhi

October 1, Singtam: A 2-day program on the "Swachhta Saarthi Samaroh 2022" was organised at IIT Delhi under the banner of the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Govt of India. 

Earlier in 2021, the office of the PSA under its "Wealth to Waste" mission launched the Swacchta Saarthi Fellowship to recognise students and individuals working on waste management. Thousands of applications from 27 states and 7 UTs were received by the Invest India group out of which only 379 fellows were selected. The Waste to Wealth Mission is one of the nine national missions of the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM - STIAC). 


Lomas Dhungel working as a Graduate Teacher at Govt Sr Sec School, Makha was one of the successful candidates who represented Sikkim. He was awarded the Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship Award 2021-22 for his socio-environmental project of Hariyo Makha which was started in 2015.

At the end of the program, the top 18 initiatives were further complimented by the ITC under the 'Wow Initiative' and the Hariyo Makha project was one of them. 

Dhungel has thanked the Education Department, Sikkim Pollution Control Board, ENVIS Dept and RDD Dept, his students,  motivators and local intellectuals for the support that motivated him to earn the recognition.

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