JAMMU: 18 days long sanitation campaign ‘Swachhta Hi Seva Hai’ is being organized from September 15 to October 02, 2017 in all the rural and urban areas of Jammu Division to achieve multidimensional targets under ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ by raising efforts towards cleanliness across the division.
Various programmes are being organized under the drive including flagging off Swachhta Express, special gram sabhas, awareness camps regarding construction of twin pit toilet and IHHL, cleanliness drives, anti-polythene drives, water conservation drives, green rallies, walkathons for achieving ODF and award ceremony for recognizing the initiatives and efforts towards achieving various targets under ‘Swachh Bharat’.
At Rajouri: The drive was kick started at District Headquarters by the Vice Chairman of Advisory Board for Pahari Speaking People, Kuldeep Raj Gupta and District Development Commissioner Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary in presence of SSP Yougal Manhas. Similar drives were also initiated in all subdivisions of the district by respective sub-divisional administrations.
At UDHAMPUR: Member of Legislative Assembly, Pawan Kumar Gupta along with District Development Commissioner, Ravinder Kumar launched the 'Swachhta Hi Sewa' Campaign by holding a cleanliness drive at Holy Devika Ghat. SSP Rayees Bhat, various District officers and prominent citizens of the town also participated in the drive. Earlier, the DDC also flagged off a door to door garbage collection van and an awareness rally from DC.
Later, a Sandhya Nukkad was organized at Mand west , Tikri with the help of which the common masses of the area was made aware about the importance of cleanliness. They were also asked to cooperate with the district administration in making the area Open Defecation Free. ADDC Arvind Sharma, ASP Faizal Qureshi, ACD Om Prakash, DPO Sandeep Seointra besides other district officers were present in various programmes.
At SAMBA: the programme was launched from District Hospital which included a special cleanliness drive for promoting the sense of hygiene among general public. MLA Samba, Dr Devinder Kumar Manyal, Deputy Commissioner, Sheetal Nanda, SSP Anil Magotra, Addl SP, Raja Adil Hamid, DPO, Aijaj Qaiser, SDMs, ACR and all district officers were present on occasion. Besides volunteers from NGOs like Lions Club, Rotary Club, other social organizations, school children contributed in the drive.
The authorities asked the shopkeepers near the Hospital to make sure that they dispose garbage in an environment friendly manner. The DC informed that District Administration has chalked out series of activities to be carried out each day till 2nd October with focus on markets, hospitals, dumping grounds and public places involving all the stakeholders.
At KATHUA: District Administration headed by DDC, Ramesh Kumar kick started the campaign at entry point of state Lakhanpur by flagging off ‘Swacchta Vahan’ carrying messages on cleanliness which will cover different blocks of the district. Team of officers held a Shramm Daan session where district officers and officials participated in cleaning of areas with massive concentration of weeds, bushes and other garbage near entry point to the state.
Others present on the occasion were SSP Kathua, Suleman Chaudhary, ADC Kathua, Rishpal Singh, DC Commercial Taxes, Puneet Sharma, CEO LSDA, GM DIC, ASP Khalil Poswal, PO ICDS, RTO, ACD, DPO, engineers of different departments and other district officers.
At JAMMU: District Development Commissioner, Kumar Rajeev Ranjan today flagged off ‘Swachhta Express’ aimed at raising awareness on ‘Swachhta hi Sewa’ which will transverse through the district along with screening of movie ‘Toilet Ek Prem Katha’.ADDC, Anuradha Gupta, ADC, Arun Manhas, ADC Kanta Devi, ACR Nissar Shad, ACR, Sachin Jamwal and other officers were present on the occasion.
At RAMBAN: District Development Commissioner ,Tariq Hussain Ganai launched a massive drive under ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’. An awareness rally was also taken out from Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Ramban which was flagged off by the DDC and SSP Ramban Mohan Lal accompanied by the, CEO, Dr. Chander Shaker, DPO, Tariq Suharwardy, ASP, Mushtaq Choudhary, Principal GHSS Parshotam , Dy. CMO, Iqbal Bhat and other officers.
At Doda: District administration also carried a sanitation drive under the banner of "Swachta hi sewa hai" campaign from District Hospital. Deputy Commissioner, Bhawani Rakwal, SSP Doda Mohd Shabir, SP(HQ) Vinay Kumar, CMO Doda Wajid Ali, DSP HQ Iftikhar, EO Municipal Committee Doda, Police Jawans and sweepers of Municipal committee doda participated in the drive.
DDC flagged off a swachh Bharat Mission rally from Boys HSS. About 700 students from various educational institutions holding banners and placards depicting various themes related to neat and clean environment participated in the event.
At Kishtwar: A sanitation drive under Swach Bharat Abhyan was organized at Government Higher Secondary School (Boys with collaboration and participation of all government departments including banks and private institutions. The attendants took the pledge to maintain “Swachta” in and around the surrounding areas. Later a rally of about 300 school children for “Green India clean India my dream India, Clean India movement” was flagged off by the DDC Kishtwar.
At REASI: A series of activities were organized across the district which was launched by ADDC Ramesh Chander from district administrative complex today. Among others ADC Babu Ram, SSP Tahir Bhat, ACD M.Y. Malik, GM DIC Anil Thakur, CPO DPO, CEO B.S. Jaral, CMO Dr. L.D. Bhagat, Executive Engineers of PDD, R&B, REW, PHE were also present on the occasion.
At Poonch: Sanitation campaign "Swachhta Hi Sewa" was launched in the premises of administrative complex of DC office on the ocassion of 3rd anniversary of Swachh Bharat Mission . Present on the occasion were ADDC Abdul Hamied, ADC Dr. Bashrat Hussain,ACR, Ashraf,joint director education, Chowdhary, DPO Poonch Dr.Majid Jahangir, EO Municipality, Chief Education Officer, principals, schools children. On the occasion DC flagged of Swachhta express equipped with public addressable system & resource persons who will create awareness in every nook & corner of the district. Later the he addressed the students, officers & people on do and don'ts to make this program successful.