North Sikkim: The Lachen Tourism Development committee has undertaken a series of cleanliness drive and awareness campaign at various tourist spots in surrounding areas of Lachen and beyond.With the end of first tourist season of 2007, many of these hot and popular destinations were conspicuous with a litter of bottles,wrappers and other garbage left behind by tourists and thus, in a welcome move, a drive to clean-up these areas before the onset of another season was launched by Committee members and locals as informed by Joint Secretary Chewang Lachenpa of Committee.
The members have already conducted cleanliness drive at Lachen and surrounding areas on July04 which included cleaning of drainage and roadsides and similar initiatives were also taken launched in Thangu,Chop ta, and Gurudongmar lake on July 05.
"This is the first time a social cleanliness drive was undertaken at the height of 17,800feet of Gurudongmar Lake, one of the holy lakes in sikkim ,is perched"Mr. Lachenpa pointed-out.
