Under ‘Rastriya Swachchta Abhiyan’, a huge rally will be taken out here to generate awareness regarding cleanliness among the people on October 15.
The district administration has undertaken the initiative to make the rally, which will be taken out in all the villages, towns and cities of the district, a major success.The collector Niranjan Das on Saturday held a meeting of the officials concerned and asked them to ensure maximum participation of local representatives, youth clubs, self-reliant groups, NGOs, school students, government employees and people from all walks of life.
As decided, folk dancers, drama teams and ‘Kala Jatha’ will accompany the rallies while the participants will hold banners, posters and will recite slogans of cleanliness to draw everyone’s attention towards the importance of maintaining public places neat and clean.As a part of this initiative, a ‘Hand Wash Week’ will be observed from October 7 to October 14 in all the schools and Anganwadi centres.
Besides, the collector gave instructions to organize a hand wash prorgramme in all the schools and Anganwadi centres of the district to mark Global Handwashing Day on October 15.