CHANDEL Dec 16: With the aim of keeping the town clean and celebrating Christmas with a healthy surrounding, residents and shopkeepers of Japhou town conducted an advent Christmas cleanliness drive in and around the town area under the aegis of the Japhou Bazar Authority today.
Scores of people young and old, men and women alike came out since 6 am and swept the roads, cleaned nullahs and drainages.
Garbage and filthy materials were collected and disposed off. The work lasted till 9:00 of the morning with all the shops.
Chairman of Japhou Bazar Authority Js Angam Anal told this scribe that the mass drive was carried out with the aim of keeping the town neat and clean. He also said that with few days left for Christmas, Japhou Bazar has become crowded with increasing numbers of people coming to the town for shopping thereby polluting the town in some way or the other.
He further appealed all to keep and maintained cleanliness in the town.