Itanagar Says Enough: Plastic Carry Bags Below 120 Microns Are Now Banned

The thin plastic bag you grab at your neighbourhood shop in Itanagar? It just became illegal. The Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) dropped a firm order on Wednesday, August 12, putting an immediate ban on single-use plastic items and plastic carry bags below 120 microns across its entire jurisdiction. It is one of the most comprehensive … Read more

Itanagar Is Done Talking About Plastic — The IMC Just Got Serious

If you’re still handing out flimsy plastic bags at your shop in Itanagar, consider this your final warning. The Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) has launched a full-scale crackdown on single-use plastic, putting every shop, hotel, restaurant, street vendor and commercial establishment in the capital on notice. The civic body issued a stern public appeal on … Read more

Over 5,200 Kg of Trash Pulled Out of Yagamso River — Itanagar’s Wake-Up Call to Itself

Over 5,200 Kg of Trash Pulled Out of Yagamso River — Itanagar's Wake-Up Call to Itself

A river choked with thousands of disposable plates, plastic bags, and delivery packaging. That’s what volunteers found — and cleaned up — in Itanagar this Saturday. On August 8, 2026, a massive clean-up drive along the Yagamso River turned into something far more powerful than just a waste-collection exercise. It became a mirror held up … Read more

They Pulled 2,160 Kg of Filth Out of Itanagar’s Yagamso River — And What They Found Was Telling

On a Sunday morning in Chandranagar, while most of the city was still asleep, a group of volunteers was already knee-deep in the fight to save a dying river. A River Gasping for Help The Yagamso river, running through the heart of Arunachal Pradesh’s capital Itanagar, has long been on the receiving end of the … Read more