National rural drinking water and sanitation awareness week launching cum rally was held at council hall, Mon on March 18 with president KNSK, B. Lomei Konyak as the chief guest.
Lomei, in her short speech, appealed to the students to learn from the program and disseminate and share with others what they have learned from the program. She asserted that 70% – 80% of various human diseases are related to waterborne diseases due to lack of proper sanitation and safe drinking water. She urged the students to focus more on development of sanitation and safe drinking water besides other development because it is related to human health and its wellbeing.
In his keynote address Executive Engineer, PHED Mon, Er. Leyang Khiamniungan, highlighted the importance of observing the awareness week. He said that national rural drinking water and sanitation awareness week is a national program to create awareness on sanitation and safe drinking water. He said students are being targeted to attend the program because they are the future and an important source of disseminating information to their friends and parents back at home. Stressing on conservation of forest he said deforestation and jhum cultivation causes shortage of drinking water and urged the students and teachers to encourage and adopt tree plantation. Resource person and chemist, Watinaro spoke on the importance of water and human health.
More than one thousand students including teachers from various schools and college attended the program cum rally.