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Staff of PHED Tuensang division and participants at the orientation cum training programme at CKS hall Tuensang.[/caption]
Dimapur, Sep. 26 (EMN): The District Drinking Water and Sanitation (DWSM), PHED Tuensang division sponsored by the Water and Sanitation Support Organisation (WSSO), PHED Kohima conducted a Swachhagrahi Orientation cum Training on Geo Tagging, Sustainable sanitation and Waste Management at Tuensang town CKS hall on Sep. 24.
A press release received here on Wed. stated that the junior engineer of PHED Tuensang division, Khaoshai Lam, while speaking at the programme, said that the Swachhagrahis (foot soldiers of the clean India mission) play a very important role in bringing about behavioural change in the community through interaction and building rapport among the people.
Saying that poor sanitation and open defecation can cause a lot of health hazards and diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid etc, Lam said that an effective Swachhagrahi must have skill and experience to trigger communities and mobilise people to undertake immediate collective actions to eliminate the practice of open defecation.
Another speaker at the orientation programme, Ashale Seb, while dwelling on the topic of waste management, encouraged the people to develop the habit of using dustbins and know how to segregate the waste into bio-degradable or non bio-degradable wastes and also trained them on how to make compost pits to decompose the bio-degradable wastes.
Also emphasising on the 4 ‘R’s, she asked the participants to ‘Reduce’ daily waste products, ‘Reuse’ materials more than once, ‘Recycle’ wastes to make a new product, and ‘Recover’ of energy and metals from waste and safe disposal of waste to landfill areas.
She said that if everyone can practice the habit of the 4 ‘R’s then our environment would be hygenic and free from pollution. Junior engineer of PHED Tuensang, S Akangjongshi also trained the participants on geo-tagging, the release stated.
Meanwhile, the release stated that the “Swachhagrahi ke swachhagrahi Ek se Anek Divas” was conducted in 119 villages under Tuensang district led by the Swachhagrahis in their own respective villages, where seminars and “Swachhatta Shramdaan” were conducted at village level, like cleaning of village Primary health centre, Anganwadi centre, schools, individual’s household village surroundings etc.
