Collector Ritu Sen on Tuesday issued guidelines to Executive Engineer PHED, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation and Chief Medical and Health Officer to examine samples of drinking water. She told the officers that there is a danger of contamination of drinking water during monsoon season. As such, samples of drinking water being supplied to people by the Municipal Corporation and from hand pumps should be examined on a regular basis. During review of ‘Well-nourished, Educated and Prosperous Sarguja Campaign,’ the Collector directed the officers that the ‘Janjagrukta Rath’ (Awareness Chariot) has been taking rounds of the district from August 16 and bringing awareness among people.
Under the campaign, the Rath was flagged off with the objective of freeing the district from illiteracy and malnutrition, bringing environment awareness, empowerment of women and their economic uplift. The Collector said that the PHED officers should reach the village panchayat, where the ‘Well-nourished, Educated and Prosperous Sarguja Campaign’ Rath reaches, and should take samples of drinking water and examine it.
Similarly, the Health Department officers should reach the village, where the Rath reaches and make vaccination and other health facilities available to the villagers. She said that people gathered at the place where the awareness Rath reaches should be informed about the importance of skill development programme of Chhattisgarh government, so that its benefits reach them. The Collector directed the District Education Officer (DEO) to visit the villages selected for the campaign. The education officers should examine the quality of education in the villages.