India, April 19 -- Dumping garbage into rivers has become a concern in ecologically-sensitive Arunachal Pradesh, to the extent that the Deputy Commissioner of East Kameng district issued a preventive order to the District Urban Development Agency

The Deputy Commissioner of East Kameng district in Arunachal Pradesh has passed a preventive order asking the District Urban Development Agency (DUDA) to stop dumping garbage in one of the state's important rivers.

"Whereas it has been reported to me that DUDA is dumping solid waste/garbage of the Town arear in the Kameng river, and whereas you have been instructed a number of times in writing as well as orally to stop dumping in the river, and whereas garbage dumping in the river several environ...