Department of Teacher Education of the Central University of Orissa (CUO), Koraput, organised an environmental awareness programme in the adopted village Balda on September 30.
The villagers were made aware of health, hygiene, sanitation, watershed management and plantation. VC Prof Sachidananda Mohanty hailed the effort.
The trainee teachers of 3rd Semester B.Ed. course organised the awareness activities through rally, street play and door- to- door awareness. During this programme, students and teachers demonstrated activities on the aspects like health, sanitation and education.
They discussed waste materials management, dangers of alcohol consumption, water preservation, importance of plantation, superstitions and blind belief etc with the villagers of Balda.
The awareness activities were conducted under the direct supervision of Dr Ramendra Kumar Parhi, HoD of the Department of Teacher Education. The faculty members Akshaya Ku Bhoi, Dr Sishir Ku Bej, KVN Rao, PW Benarjee and B Soren actively participated.