World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated across Arunachal Pradesh with immense fervor, featuring a series of mass plantation drives, awareness rallies, cleanliness campaigns, and brainstorming sessions aimed at fostering environmental stewardship. Organized across multiple districts, the events drew enthusiastic participation from NCC cadets, the Indian Army, students, forest officials, and local communities.
In Itanagar, the 1 Arunachal Pradesh Battalion NCC, in collaboration with the Zoological Survey of India, hosted a comprehensive program at NERIST for 340 cadets. The event featured biodiversity lectures, environmental quizzes, and the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ plantation drive. Simmering environmental enthusiasm also echoed in Papum Pare district’s Gumto and Tarasso. Gumto hosted a 5-kilometer marathon flagged off by MLA Nabam Vivek to promote fitness and civic duty, while Tarasso witnessed a major tree plantation drive at the Nabam Runghi cricket ground, with officials urging locals to embrace sustainable organic farming.
The eco-conscious momentum extended into the Upper Siang district, where the Mariyang Area Students’ Union beautified the Government Higher Secondary School campus by planting cherry blossom saplings. Concurrently, the Spear Corps of the Indian Army led localized cleanliness and tree plantation drives in Tuting, which engaged civil administrators, students, and Buddhist monks alike. In Pekong, the Army’s Spearhead Gunners fostered youthful creativity via a poster-making competition themed “Our Planet, Our Strength.”
Concluding the statewide celebrations, the Department of Environment, Forest & Climate Change held a high-level brainstorming session in Itanagar under the global theme, “Inspired by Nature, For Climate, For Our Future.” PCCF P. Subramanyam administered the environmental pledge, emphasizing the critical importance of resource conservation from an intergenerational perspective. The session concluded with inspiring student speeches and a drawing competition prize distribution, reinforcing the shared responsibility of protecting Arunachal’s rich ecological heritage.
