Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for shunning single use plastic, a youth from Bilaspur district has come up with unique ways to encourage people to avoid single use plastic.
“We have been staging series of programmes, including dance forms like Kathak and Chhattigarhi dance forms to appeal people not to use single use plastic,” informed Nitesh Kumar Sahu a part of Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK) Sangathan Bilaspur.
Sahu was recently awarded with ‘National Youth Award’ by union youth affairs and sports minister Kiran Rijiju in a programme held in New Delhi.
A graduate of Guru Ghasidas Central University, Sahu has been constantly working in social service sector and has formed a ‘Sangwari’ club, which is working towards water conservation and hygiene.
“We conduct various activities ranging from street plays to cleanliness campaign for making people understand the importance of water conservation and hygiene,” Sahu said.
According to Sahu, who has also served as a national youth volunteer from 2017 to 2019 in NYK Sangathan Bilaspur, his Sangwari club was at first position at district level in 2018 and 19 among various groups working in the Bilaspur.
He was also appreciated by the district administration for his active participation in ‘Swachh Sarvekshan Gramin- 2019’ wherein he along with his group reached out to 3,500 people to take part in the effort.