Under Clean India Mission, people of Chhattisgarh are being made aware about importance of hygiene through paintings, slogan writing, wall painting, rallies, art troupes and film screening, officials stated.
In this campaign, paintings and comics made by school students are proving to be attractive and inspiring. Panchayat and Rural Development Department officials informed that nearly 11,385 painting competitions, speech and debate competitions were organised in schools of rural areas. More than 1.6 lakh children participated in these competitions and gave message of cleanliness to common people.
likewise, people of rural areas, self-help groups, gram-level workers, group of youngsters and children participated in as many as 14,619 Gram Panchayat-level Cleanliness Awareness rallies with slogans of 'Jaha Soch-Waha Shauchalaya' and 'Khule Me Shauch Band Karo'. Around 4.50 lakh people participated in these rallies.
Department officials stated that as many as 22,325 slogan-writing, 21,107 paintings and wall-paintings on cleanliness were also done in rural areas of the State. Besides, 1,218 films based on importance of cleanliness were also screened and nearly 850 folk art troupes staged cultural performances to convey the message on importance of hygiene in an interesting manner.
Puppet show was also organised at several places. It is noteworthy that all these activities were organised in the State from March 16 to 22 under National Rural Drinking Water and Cleanliness Week.