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UDHAMPUR: District Administration Udhampur in collaboration with Field Outreach Bureau, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, GoI today organized awareness prgoramme on Swachhta and No Single use plastic campaign in connection with the commemoration of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. District Development Commissioner, Dr. Piyush Singla was the chief guest. Programme started with a mass awareness rally which was flagged off by Additional District Development Commissioner Udhampur, Ashok Kumar from DC Office Complex. It passed through main locations of town, and culminated at Town Hall the venue of the programme. During the rally, students of NCC, Bharat Scouts & Guide, and educational institutions carried placards with awareness messages for saving the earth by shunning use of single use plastic.
In his address, the DDC said that the main objective of the programme is to generate awareness about cleanliness and ban on single use plastic among the students in particular and public in general. He also said that cleanliness is a behavior and it should be inculcated among us. He stressed on adoption of Gandhian values in our daily life.
DDC also highlighted the role to be played by civil society Udhampur for making this campaign successful. He appealed the common masses to join hands with district administration for making the district neat and clean. He said that cleanliness is not the responsibility of only few people but it is collective responsibility of all people as a society. Achieving the goals of the Swachh Bharat Mission expeditiously will be an appropriate tribute to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi ji, he added.
Earlier, the DDC also inspected stalls put up by Horticulture, Agriculture, Handloom, Handicrafts, Animal Husbandry, and Tourism departments to create mass awareness about their schemes. Among others present were Additional District Development Commissioner, Ashok Kumar, General manager District Industrial Centre, Suram Chand Sharma, Chief Planning officer, Rajeev Bushan, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. KC Dogra, Chief Agriculture Officer, Jhangir Shafi, District information officer, Er. Sajad Bashir Somberia, Field Publicity Officers, Khalid Yousuf and Shahid Lone and officers of different departments.
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