Under the Swatchha Bharat Mission (SBM), a thematic cleanliness drive is being organised by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) from February 1 to 15.
Under this drive, major focus is on protection of water bodies from pollution and maintaining their cleanliness.
Under this drive, voluntary organisation Aarambh, in colaboration with BMC, has organised a Jan Samvad programme at Chhattisgarh labour Colony.
The programme has been initiated by Jitendra Parmar of Aarambh, who gave a presentation on protection of water bodies and making them pollution free.
He emphasised that Bhopal is the city of lakes; beauty of the city is due to these water bodies, therefore we should not pollute them. He also enlightened the house on objectives of SBM.
Health Officer of BMC Rakesh Sharma stressed on the importance of people’s participation in the mission. He also mention about the ill effect of open defecation around water bodies. He requested participants to construct toilet under SBM and use the same.
BMC’s zone 15 president, lakshmi Thakur informed the participant about door to door garbage collection system and requested for use of dustbin and segregation of garbage at house hold level.
Shanky Jain and Suman Sen from MoUD, have appreciated the initiatives taken by Aarambh under the thematic cleanliness drive and also informed the participants on community level sanitation.
In the programme apart from AARAMBH team members, approx 200 people from different mohalla committee, women groups, youth have participated from different areas of Bhopal city.