Senapati, April 18 (MExN): With massive response from both the students’ community as well as the general public, the ‘Sanitization Drive of Senapati River’ organized by SDSA and District administration was held with a grand success on April 16. It was also amply supported by All Private School Association Senapati and Senapati Police.
Considered one of the most important and depended water source for fast growing DHQ town residents, the river was turned into a dumping site transforming the situation into a drain. Observing the same, the Senapati District Student’s Association (SDSA) in March had decided to take up appropriate steps to keep the river clean.
Taking up the uphill task of cleaning the river, the Senapati District Administration had also decided to enter into a joint venture with SDSA to create awareness and execute a long term exercise of keeping the river clean, a SDSA press released informed.
During Saturday’s sanitation drive, more than 1000 volunteers armed with shovel, hand gloves, plastics, spades, bamboos and other equipments, actively managed to collect the dirt which was picked by Town committee and hired dumpers after the social works, it added.
Participants included schools, residents’, civil bodies, volunteers, Senapati police, teachers, Makhrelui village colonies, village leaders and others, SDSA said. Deputy Commissioner of Senapati, Jacintha Lazarus, IAS also paid a physical visit to different sites of the social work.
The students and residents of Monday market colony, Makhrelui and Senapati TNK Villages took part in collecting dirt and garbage dumped demonstrating an exemplary act, it added. The SDSA team and District Administration officials also participated all along the cleaning sites.
According to SDSA, the physical involvement of students, local residents and stakeholders in the mass social work is one of the practical means to educate people “the woes garbage and solid waste that are dumped conveniently along the Senapati river stretch.”
Stating that cleanliness drive has given a temporary lease of life to the river, SDSA President Pungdi Celestine also maintained that the association as well as the citizens is encouraged by the seriousness of the District Administration in strategizing a mechanism and measures required to sustain the health of the river.
It further informed that the SDSA and District Administration is likely to come up with long term strategy of keeping the river clean.
