{"id":1743,"date":"2018-01-02T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tibetnature.lhasocialwork.com\/en\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2018-01-09T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T11:21:42","slug":"keeping-dhasa-clean-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/keeping-dhasa-clean-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Dhasa Clean and Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/25488439_1511225368931722_8136672186717468980_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1744\" src=\"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/25488439_1511225368931722_8136672186717468980_o.jpg\" alt=\"25488439_1511225368931722_8136672186717468980_o\" width=\"611\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Clean and GreenLha\u2019s monthly mass clean up for December was held on the 16th with about50 participants, as usual Lha students and volunteers came along to help. This month we picked up litter around the main temple, Kora pathway and below Potala road. Even though we clean the area every month, there is a truck full of garbage every time. <!--more-->The Clean Upper Dharamshala Program (CUDP) is trying their best to keep this town clean and a few Tibetan non-government organisations sometimes make an effort to clean their surroundings. However, the local population is apparently unmoved by all the litter around and they rarely participate in or initiate any cleanup operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\u2019s National Green Tribunal, the statutory environment agency, has this month announced a new \u201cstatutory obligation\u201d for local authorities to remove garbage and a fine of Rs 10,000 [US$160 \/ \u00a3120] for \u201cany person or agency, government or private,\u201d found leaving garbage in a public place, or anywhere without consent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 with the aim of cleaning India\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For further environmental information, please visit <em>tibetnature.net\/en\/<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean and GreenLha\u2019s monthly mass clean up for December was held on the 16th with about50 participants, as usual Lha students and volunteers came along to help. This month we picked up litter around the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetnature.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}