As part of the one week long National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness campaign (NRDW&SAC) the PHED, Mokokchung division with Sungratsu Students’ Union (SSU) organized an awareness rally at Sungratsu village where more than 200 students from Kobulong block participated on March 19.
The rally was flagged off by CMO Mokokchung, Dr S.S Akaba Longchar as the guest of honour. Dr S. S Akaba in his speech stated that the communitized departments in the state- power, medical and education department are implementing the different activities and programmes successfully with the co-ordination of the village council and the communities.
He also prioritized that community participation was the top most important to implement various programme at the grass root level for communitized departments.
On drinking water and sanitation, the CMO of Mokokchung urged the village councils to start practicing scientific method of waste disposal and maintained proper sanitation to contain the epidemic outbreak of disease like amoebiasis, diarrhoea and hepatitis in the village.
He also encouraged the village council and students not to use chemicals that can pollute the streams and drinking water catchment area and to make the village free from infectious diseases and human made environment issues mainly caused by jhum cultivation.
President of the SSU, Imchalemba Walling maintained that the present scenario of “mother earth” was striving so hard to save humanity and was deteriorating day by day at a rapid pace, all because of human greed and selfish attitude.
He also called upon the students and elders to change the mindset and attitude toward “mother earth” and start acting from grass root level, starting from ourself, home, school and to the higher level.
Meanwhile, the inter school essay competition of Kobulong Block, Mokokchung was held at GMS Sungratsu on March 18. Altogether 30 participants from different schools around the block took part in the competition.
The first position was taken by Kilangbenla, while second and third prizes were bagged by Tekanungsang and Lanusama, all from Clark Memorial Hr. Sec. School, Impur. They were given certificates with cash prizes. Consolation prizes were also given to ten students.